Happy Chinese New Year, Bitcoin! Biggest exchange opens for business despite bank warning

The world’s biggest bitcoin exchange by volume has reopened allowing yuan-to-bitcoin deposits. This goes against an order by the People’s Bank of China, which said all bitcoin trading should stop before the Chinese New Year, January 31.

BTC China executive Bobby Lee said that as of Thursday, the exchange decided it could legally accept bitcoin deposits in its corporate bank account, and then transfer funds to customer accounts.