History of Bitcoin in China China and Bitcoin have a passionate history together. Now that it is (officially) ending, let’s remember its highlights – and how little they ended up meaning over time. Since as early as 2013 the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) warned against using a currency “without real meaning”. The blockchain technology, however, should have fascinated them, as from 2014 the PBoC started developing a Central Bank Digital Currency, or