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China’s Alibaba, Tencent bar cryptocurrency transactions on WeChat Pay, AliPay — Fortune

In a move that will likely make it even harder for cryptocurrency aficionados to trade Bitcoin and its ilk in China, the mobile payments titans of the country have barred crypto-related transactions, writes Lucinda Shen.

Here is the link: http://fortune.com/2018/08/24/ant-financial-alibaba-wechat-cryptocurrencies-bitcoin/

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