(Reuters) – Cryptocurrencies traded firmly on Monday, having rebounded from selling driven by an intensifying crackdown on the asset class in China, as buy-the-dip speculators swooped in.
Bitcoin was up about 1% in Asia trade at $43,719, having fallen to just below $41,000 in the wake of Friday’s announcement of a blanket ban on crypto mining and transactions in China – the most wide-ranging clampdown yet.
Rival token ether rose 2% to $3,136 and has recouped its Friday losses.
