© Reuters. F2Pool bans Chinese Bitcoin miners as crypto clampdown intensifies F2Pool, the world’s largest mining pool, has started banning Bitcoin miners from mainland China. According to local crypto media outlet 8BTCnews, Chinese customers will either have their accounts suspended or terminated moving forward. The decision of the mining pool is clearly linked to China’s renewed efforts to crush cryptocurrency mining and trading. Following months of trying to stifle the sector’s growth by cutting power supply to mining facilities and shutting down crypto businesses, the People’s Bank of China declared last week that all business activities related to cryptocurrencies are...