Some direct consequences you might be interested in after President Xi's blockchain talk.
1/ No doubt that blockchain is intensively reported on national TV channels, on covers/headlines of national newspapers and websites. 2/ China’s most popular app, Xuexi Qiangguo (study for becoming powerful nation) now has a recommended course focusing entirely on blockchain, which contains Bitcoin & Ethereum lessons. The app released by CPC to help ppl learn about its political doctrines like Xi's thoughts.
Oct 25, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/ BREAKING China's President Xi: Adopt blockchain as an important breakthrough for independent innovation of core technologies
2/ Yesterday the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee conducted the 18th collective study on the status quo and trends of blockchain technology development.
May 22, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1/ "It is legal to own bitcoins in China" says Sa Xiao, Council Member at Bank of China Law Research Association, cited by The Beijing News. Besides, Xiao considers occasional exchange of bitcoins between individuals and individuals is legal
Source(in CN): bjnews.com.cn/finance/2019/0…2/ Xiao also believes if one runs BTC trading as a business and has caused significant customer losses w/ serious consequences, the possibility of punishment according to criminal law (225#4 Other illegal business practices that seriously disrupt market order) cannot be ruled out
Jun 23, 2018 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1/ @VitalikButerin 's interview in Chinese community: the new road map is still "Casper then sharding", but the first version of Casper is modified so that it is "along the way" to a full Casper and sharding implementation.
2/ @VitalikButerin: Having more money for me is not about big houses and cars, it is about having safety so that I feel free to do what I want without having to worry about money, so I can focus on what I think is valuable without wasting my time or compromising my values.
May 29, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1/ Chinese Internet security giant 360 has found "a series of epic vulnerabilities" in the #EOS platform. Some of the bugs allow arbitrary code to be executed remotely on EOS nodes and even taking full control of the nodes.
Source (in Chinese): weibo.com/ttarticle/p/sh…2/ According to their Weibo (Chinese Twitter), 360 reported the bugs to the EOS team. "The person in charge of the EOS network said that the EOS network will not be officially launched until these issues are fixed."
Dec 4, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Gongsheng Pan, deputy governor PBoC: There is only one thing left to do: Sit by the river bank and see bitcoin’s body pass by one day qz.com/1145816/chinas…1/4 Caixin: How to make bitcoin's body pass by ASAP? ... opinion.caixin.com/2017-12-04/101…