Huobi’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Moves 100K BTC Following the Chinese Crackdown

After China recently banned all crypto-related activities in the nation, crypto exchange Huobi Global had to limit mainland Chinese people from signing up on the platform. As an effect, the Huobi pool – – the eighth most significant BTC pool -is now moving a massive amount out of their funds, possibly to cover the customer withdrawal needs on the exchange.

$4.21 Billion Flowing Out From Miners

Data from research business IntoTheBlock reveals that Huobi Pool has just recently moved almost 100,000 BTC or $4.21 billion at the time of writing. This is the largest inflow of funds because December 18, 2017, a year that saw Huobi dealing with Chinese authorities after they prohibited cryptocurrency trading.

The current China guideline led to the eighth greatest #Bitcoin swimming pool, Huobi pool, moving a large amount of their funds

Almost 100k$BTC($4.21 b )flowing out from miners, the biggest given that Dec 18, 2017 Could it be to cover the customer withdrawals requires on their exchange? pic.twitter.com/OeaH5o6cf7– IntoTheBlock(@intotheblock)September 28, 2021 Ethereum wallets were likewise on the relocation. As of 6:50 UTC, September 26, numerous ETH whales moved around 800,000 ETH – – $2,29 billion – from Huobi to unknown wallets. It seems that a lot of transaction activities came from a few wallets transacting batches of 100k ETH, based on information from Etherscan.

That very same day, both Ethereum and Bitcoin saw everyday negative exchange circulations of over $100 million each, according to data from Glassnode.

Daily On-Chain Exchange Flow #Bitcoin$BTC
$495.4 M in
$629.6 M out Net flow:-
$134.2 M #Ethereum $ETH$439.0 M in $590.5 M out Net circulation:-$151.5 M #Tether(ERC20) $USDT $371.4 M in

$385.9 M out< img src ="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.0.0/72x72/1f4c9.png"alt=" "class="wp-smiley"style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"/ > Net circulation:-$14.5 Mhttps:// t.co/ dk2HbGwhVw– glassnode informs( @glassnodealerts )September 26, 2021< script async src ="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"charset= "utf-8"> China’s Constant Attacks on Crypto The constant Chinese crackdowns on cryptocurrencies have pushed exchanges to halt their operations in the country and stop new users from accessing their platforms. Remarkably, Huobi was among the first affected.

Now, most of the market remains in red again, with losses that top $100 billion in the last couple of days. Ethereum was among the hardest-hit currencies, as the crackdown required the world’s second-largest ETH mining swimming pool, SparkPool, to suspend its services for all its users in an effort to be “maximally certified with regulatory requirements,” as said by the company.

“SparkPool had stopped supplying services to brand-new users from mainland China on September 24, 2021 (UTC +8). A complete shutdown for all SparkPool services and operations for the existing users, at home or abroad, has actually been prepared for September 30, 2021 (UTC +8) at 20:00 under the facility of guaranteeing the security of our users’ possessions.”

Separately, the NDRC (National Development and Reform Commission of individuals’s Republic of China) confiscated 10,100 crypto mining rigs from a government-operated tech park in Inner Mongolia.

Barry Bailey

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