In an attempt to rein in the sprawling exchange environment in the city, Hong Kong’s government is starting to rethink its laissez-faire attitude towards the cryptocurrency ecosystem, Nikkei reports.

Although it won’t be following mainland China’s lead with a complete ban anytime soon, the city is still concerned about complaints to the Securities and Futures Commission from customers that were not able to withdraw some of their assets from exchanges.

The complaints led to accusations that some of these exchanges may be pouring customer money irresponsibly into digital coins, and that the mismanagement of funds leads to withdrawal issues.

After getting these com…

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