In a way, this is very good. Taxing exchanges creates a lot of stability to the market.
If they are taxing it, they won't ban it.
And considering the volume of the South Korean market, (bithumb alone traded 3.3 billion dollars in the last 24h) it means great news for the crypto world.
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