Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=20425854'>posted</a> on 12/01/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by Optional View Post
Why are the Chinese in particular interested in bitcoins?
Primarily because most of what's owed to China is in a depreciating US currency.

Not many people really want US currency, it's more forced upon us and in short this is china's way of responding to the fact that they will probably never see what you lot owe them. I think it's 2.3 trillion at the moment and rising