Central bank's legal digital currency to be issued soon
what we call DC / EP is the Chinese version of the central bank's digital currency, translated as "digital currency and electronic payment instruments"
the center for International Settlements (BIS) and the Committee on payment and market infrastructure (CPMI), two authoritative international organizations, jointly concted two questionnaires on more than 60 central banks in 2018 and 2019. The content of the questionnaire includes the work progress of central banks on digital currency, the motivation of studying digital currency and the possibility of issuing digital currency. 70% of central banks said they are (or will be) involved in the research of digital currency
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Zhou Xiaochuan pointed out that as legal tender, digital currency must be issued by the central bank. The issue, circulation and transaction of digital currency should follow the idea of integration of traditional currency and digital currency, and implement the same principle of management. That is to say, q-coin and the like are definitely not good
as for whether to use blockchain technology to create digital currency. Zhou Xiaochuan said that the blockchain technology is an optional technology, but so far, the blockchain still occupies too many resources. Whether it is computing resources or storage resources, it can't cope with the current transaction scale, and whether it can be solved in the future depends on it. Zhou Xiaochuan said that in addition to blockchain technology, the digital currency research team of the people's Bank of China has also concted in-depth research on other related technologies involved in digital currency, such as mobile payment, trusted and controllable cloud computing, cryptographic algorithm, security chip, etc
in addition, Zhou Xiaochuan also mentioned that there is a lot of discussion about "51% attack" (assuming that indivials have 51% of the computing speed of the whole network, they can realize double payment, reverse transactions, paralyze the whole network, and completely lose the transfer function). More specifically, compared with the special currency, bitcoin does not need the central bank. Zhou Xiaochuan mentioned that for the digital currency controlled by the central bank, a series of technical means, mechanism design and laws and regulations will be adopted to ensure the security of the digital currency operation system, which is different from the design idea of bitcoin from the beginning
as for the digital currency timetable, Zhou Xiaochuan said that there is no established timetable. The relationship between digital currency and cash will be parallel and graally replaced for quite a long time. For reference.
more than three years ago, the people's Bank of China started to organize a seminar on digital currency, and then set up the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank. The recent action is to jointly organize step-by-step R & D with the instry and cooperate with the market. What the central bank develops is actually electronic payment. What it pays is digital, not paper money. Digital money also has monetary properties. The study of digital currency is not to realize the application of a certain technical solution, but to pursue the convenience and low cost of retail payment system, as well as security and privacy protection
the central bank's version of digital currency is inspired by bitcoin, bitcoin cash, wikilink and other digital currencies, and adopts the underlying technology blockchain of bitcoin.
in fact, the country has been studying the field of digital currency, and digital currency and blockchain are the future development trend. As for when to issue, we can only say that when the time comes, it will be issued naturally. We need to ensure the steady operation of the financial economy.
in its Research Report on CBDC, the Bank of England defines central bank digital currency as an electronic form of central bank currency, which can be used by households and businesses to make payments and store value
the Chinese version of CBDC is described as a controllable anonymous payment tool, which is issued by the people's Bank of China, operated by designated operating institutions and exchanged to the public, based on the generalized account system, supports the loose coupling function of bank accounts, is equivalent to banknotes and coins, and has value characteristics and legal compensation
what we call DC / EP is the Chinese version of the central bank's digital currency, translated as "digital currency and electronic payment instruments"
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at present, the Central Bank of China has not issued and approved the digital currency of issuers and investors
However, at the beginning of the year, the central bank held a seminar on digital currency, at which it made it clear that it was necessary to issue digital currency as soon as possible, and the central bank put the issue of digital currency on the agendahowever, so far, the central bank has not issued any digital currency, and Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the central bank, said that the time is not ripe to issue digital currency. Moreover, the digital currency issued by the central bank is different from bitcoin, Ruitai, Laite and other digital cryptocurrencies, and the digital currency issued by the central bank is not decentralized
when the central bank issues digital currency, it needs to establish a basic digital currency system. In this system, the central bank is in charge of the digital currency issuing bank, the commercial bank is in charge of the bank, and the public and indivials hold digital wallets. This is not much different from the existing monetary system in essence, but the managed currency is changed from paper money to digital cryptocurrency
in terms of issuing mechanism, there are two modes:
one is the traditional mode of "central bank commercial bank", that is, the central bank issues digital currency from the issuing bank of the central bank to the Bank of the commercial bank. When an indivial withdraws money from the commercial bank, the digital currency is transferred from the commercial bank to the personal digital wallet
another mode is the "central bank public" mode, that is, the central bank can directly issue digital currency from the currency issuing bank to the digital wallet of the public and indivials. In essence, no matter which issuing mode, money is ultimately held by the public, which is the debt of the central bank to the public
Jensen said, "after two years of stupid spending and bad decision-making, the bitcoin foundation has in fact gone bankrupt. The foundation even ran out of funds in November last year."
it is reported that the board of directors has tried to reverse this situation by looking for a new executive director, and Patrick Murck, the new executive director of bitcoin foundation, also believes that the only way out of this dilemma is for the foundation to only use the funds for those core development projects
however, according to Jensen, "the foundation has almost no funds at present, and 90% of its employees have been laid off, and only some of them remain as volunteers."
however, two other members of the organization also said that the bitcoin foundation is not bankrupt, it just needs to be restructured. Founded in 2012 in the United States, the bitcoin foundation is a non-profit organization. The organization has always said that it does not fully represent bitcoin, but is only an organization set up to promote the global development of bitcoin
Jensen also said: "the bitcoin foundation hates transparency. Jim Harper had planned to hold a press conference after the election, but was forced to cancel because the foundation was never open to the outside world. As a result, some smart people no longer trust the special currency foundation, so the foundation can't raise enough money. "
it should be noted that Jensen and Jim Harper are the two new board members newly elected last month. This election was voted by bitcoin Foundation's annual and lifetime members. 89% of the members participated in the pre election and 74% in the general election. In the results of the general election, Jensen won 277 votes, accounting for 63%, ranking first. This was followed by Harper's 264 votes, 60%. After being elected, both of them expressed the hope that the bitcoin foundation could carry out key research and development, fully realize the transparency of the organization, and finally make all stores and people in the world accept bitcoin. On March 15 this year, the two of them officially began their two-year term of office.