A person holding a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, at the "Bitcoin Change" shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Photo: AFP
A person holding a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, at the "Bitcoin Change" shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Photo: AFP
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Inside China Tech: Death or rebirth for bitcoin, and what China is doing about it

  • An update on the bitcoin collapse, from inside China's tech hub of Shenzhen.

Zen SooZheping Huang
Zen Soo and Zheping Huang

Updated: 7:10pm, 19 Dec, 2018

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A person holding a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, at the "Bitcoin Change" shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Photo: AFP
A person holding a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin, at the "Bitcoin Change" shop in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Photo: AFP

SCMP tech reporter Zen Soo is joined by her colleague on the bitcoin/crypto beat, Zheping Huang, for an update on the bitcoin collapse. He also reports from the world's biggest tech markets in Shenzhen, gives an explanation of the 'hard fork' that has split bitcoin cash, and takes us inside the battle between a Chinese-backed consortium and the Australian who claims he is the inventor of bitcoin.

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Zen Soo

Zen Soo

Zen Soo worked at the Post from 2015 until 2019. She covered China technology, in particular e-commerce, online to offline and mobile payments. She also wrote about Southeast Asian tech companies.

Zheping Huang

Zheping Huang

Zheping is a technology reporter covering cryptocurrency, blockchain and gaming for the South China Morning Post. He is a contributor to Inkstone. Previously he wrote about China for Quartz.