{"id":392225,"date":"2019-08-05T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=392225"},"modified":"2019-08-05T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:36:44","slug":"chinese-are-not-buying-bitcoin-peter-schiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/chinese-are-not-buying-bitcoin-peter-schiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese are Not Buying Bitcoin: Peter Schiff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese investors do not think of bitcoin as a\u00a0safe-haven asset<\/a>, and they are not buying it, believes Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital.<\/p>\n

The statement appeared amidst international media coverages about bitcoin’s price rise against a gloomy macroeconomic outlook. On August 1, US President Donald Trump said that he could impose 10 percent additional tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports. The move prompted Beijing to artificially devaluate its national currency yuan to its weakest since December last year.<\/p>\n

Global stock markets, which was already facing the heart from\u00a0escalating trade tensions between the US and China, slid further on Monday following Beijing’s yuan cut. The pan-European Stoxx 600 Index plunged by 1.6 percent. The MSCI\u2019s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares also slipped by 2.5 percent, while the Dow futures were down by about 100 points.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin, on the other hand, surged by more than 9 percent on the day to establish a local high towards $11,860. The move prompted CNBC, a US-based business channel, to cover a report connecting yuan’s devaluation with bitcoin’s rise. They interviewed Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle cryptocurrency exchange, on the prospects of Chinese investors using bitcoin as a measure against the state’s capital controls.<\/p>\n

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"Humanity has now created a non sovereign, highly secure mechanism to store value that can exist anywhere that the internet exists," says @jerallaire<\/a> on #btc<\/a> surge amid #TradeWar<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Lhguui8arb<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n