Earlier today, the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA) asked its six digital cryptocurrency exchanges to perfect their protection measures against anti-money laundering. Prior to this, the FSA survey found that the six digital cryptocurrency exchanges’ anti-money laundering ' The measure is flawed.
Affected by this, BitFlyer, the largest Bitcoin exchange in Japan, subsequently announced that it has suspended the opening of new customers. According to the requirements of the FSA, BitFlyer has begun to improve the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Affected by the above factors, Bitcoin transaction prices plunged 9% for the day and fell to 6092.38 US dollars, the lowest record in a week. In contrast, the bitcoin price in December last year was once close to 20,000 US dollars.
Since 2018, due to the increasing influence of various countries on digital cryptocurrency supervision, bitcoin prices have dropped sharply and market value has shrunk by nearly 50%.
Last month, Warren Buffett once again sang Bitcoin, saying Bitcoin did not create any value, and buying Bitcoin was not an investment.
At the same time, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said: 'As an asset class, Bitcoin will not produce anything, so we shouldn't expect it to rise in price. It simply belongs to 'Boo' Investment. '
And Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said on Wednesday that he himself has no bitcoin and Goldman Sachs does not have bitcoin, but this does not mean that digital cryptocurrencies will have no future.