Live Updated Worldwide News Related To Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto, Blockchain, Technology, Economy. Updated Every Minute. Available In All Languages. At the start of 2021, China dominated the Bitcoin mining industry; more than half of all new BTC were minted there, according to stats compiled by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. By mid-year, Chinese Bitcoin mining had all but disappeared as the government banned the practice. But even as China cracked down on crypto, it scaled up its plans for a central bank digital currency—an electronic version of the yuan that will eventually make bills and coins obsolete—and began piloting...