Most Influential 40: President Xi Jinping

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Most Influential 40: President Xi Jinping
This year Bitcoin took a serious hit to its hashrate, the measure of electricity going to secure the distributed network, when the Chinese Communist Party decided to ban cryptocurrency trading, mining and related activities. This had the immediate effect of cutting out approximately two-thirds of the machines making Bitcoin hum, but the network withstood the assault. Perhaps Xi’s biggest influence on the crypto industry is showing how little sway nation-state may have.President Xi is no ordinary CCP head, as experts in the field say. He’s taken moves to distance China from the western capitalistic enterprise; strengthen the nation’s economy and…