THE Chinese government’s tolerance of the cryptocurrency economy has been diminishing for some time, and now seems to have reached its end: On Monday, China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) revealed plans to ban cryptocurrency “mining,” probably within a month’s time.

The fallout from this decision may spell trouble for the Philippines if our regulators do not monitor this country’s own nascent cryptocurrency sector much more carefully than they have so far.

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