A visible illustration of the cryptocurrency bitcoin.

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GUANGZHOU, China — China’s Internal Mongolia area plans to ban new cryptocurrency mining initiatives and shut down present exercise in a bid to chop down on energy-consumption.

Bitcoin relies on a decentralized community, which implies it isn’t issued by a single entity like a central financial institution.…

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