8btc, China’s Premier Crypto News Source, Shifts Focus To AI and Metaverse

Key Points:

• 8btc, one of the oldest and most influential cryptocurrency news platforms in China, is pivoting away from crypto content to focus on AI and the metaverse.
• The platform offers a wide range of features, including news, forums, and an academy, with over 1.4 million articles and posts, attracting over a billion page views.

8btc, a leading independent platform for cryptocurrency news and information in China, shifts focus to AI and metaverse.

According to Wu, 8btc has announced that it will shift its focus away from cryptocurrency-related content and fully embrace artificial intelligence and the metaverse. In 2018, the company received an investment of RMB 100 million, with Bitmain being one of its investors.

Founded in 2011, it has become China’s oldest and most influential independent platform for Bitcoin, blockchain, and cryptocurrency news. The platform provides information, communication, and investment services for blockchain startups and investors. It is home to over 200 key opinion leaders (KOL), and researchers specialized in cryptocurrency and blockchain.

The platform offers multi-functional features such as 8btc News, 8btc Forum (rebranded to Chainnode), and 8btc Academy. It has over 800,000 website users, 200,000 app users, and over 1.4 million articles and posts. The overall page views (Chinese site+English site) have hit 1 billion by 2018.

The platform receives a page view of 210K daily. In 2014, 8btc published the first book on Bitcoin with CITIC press: Bitcoin A Virtual yet Real Financial World, The Digital Currency Development Report in 2014-2015 with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press in 2015, and Blockchain: from Digital Currency to Credit Society with CITIC in 2016.

The 8btc Forum has grown into the biggest blockchain and cryptocurrency community in China, where blockchain developers, users, and investors exchange quality views and ideas. Over 40 blockchain startups have established sub-forums to gain seed users and to speed up development based on feedback. It’s page view daily hits 500K.

The English site of 8btc has almost 20K registered users. It allows these bitcoins outside China to have a window to see the blockchain and cryptocurrency happenings in China and the rest of Asia. The platform has a team of professional editors who possess excellent bilingual language proficiency and claim to be experts in blockchain and cryptocurrency.

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