Digital currency running in 2017
On November 9, 2019, the central bank has not launched digital currency
in 2014, the Central Bank of China set up a special research team to conct in-depth research on the framework of digital currency issuance and business operation, key technologies of digital currency, issuance and circulation environment, and legal issues
in January 2017, the central bank officially established the digital currency Research Institute in Shenzhen
in September 2018, the Institute of digital currency built a trade finance blockchain platform
On July 8, 2019, at the launching ceremony of the digital finance open research program and the first academic seminar, Wang Xin, director of the Research Bureau of the people's Bank of China, disclosed that the State Council has officially approved the research and development of the central bank's digital currency, and the central bank is engaged in corresponding work in organizing market institutions 
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benefits of digital currency
the digitalization of central bank's currency helps to optimize the central bank's monetary payment function, improve the central bank's monetary status and the effectiveness of monetary policy. The central bank's digital currency can become an interest bearing asset to meet the holder's reserve demand for safe assets, and can also become the lower limit of bank deposit interest rate. It can also become a new monetary policy tool
at the same time, the central bank can affect the bank deposit and loan interest rate by adjusting the digital currency interest rate of the central bank, and help to break the zero interest rate lower limit
however, there are also some non developers who use the cover of digital currency to carry out pyramid selling activities, such as the Vicat fraud, treasure coin fraud, Porter coin fraud and so on exposed by bitcoin home
Recently, the central bank has made new progress in issuing digital currency. It is understood that the blockchain based digital bill trading platform promoted by the central bank has been successfully tested, the legal digital currency issued by the central bank has been put into trial operation on the platform, and the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank will be officially listed after the Spring Festival. This means that the people's Bank of China will be the first central bank to issue digital currency and carry out real application in the world
of course, it may also be the meetings held by some digital currency operators, which are generally focused on promoting enterprises. Digital currency generally refers to bitcoin, Ruitai currency, Laite currency and other cryptocurrencies.