The central bank will issue legal digital currency
As of September 2019, the central bank's digital currency has not been issued
the development history of the central bank's digital currency is as follows
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 faced
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 institutionson August 2, 2019, the central bank said at the second half of 2019 work video conference that it would speed up the research and development of legal digital currency
on August 10, 2019, Mu Changchun, deputy director of the payment and Settlement Department of the central bank, said at the Yichun forum of 40 people of China finance that "the central bank's digital currency can be said to be ready"
on August 18, 2019, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued their opinions on supporting Shenzhen to build a leading demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which mentioned supporting innovative applications such as digital currency research in Shenzhen
on August 21, 2019, the official micro blog of the people's Bank of China released two articles on digital currency. One is fan Yifei, vice president of the people's Bank of China, who was published in January 2018, talking about some considerations of digital currency of the people's Bank of China. The other is mu Changchun, deputy director of the Department of payment and settlement, who delivered a speech in Yichun on August 10
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practical significance
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
can also become a new monetary policy tool. At the same time, the central bank can affect the bank's deposit and loan interest rate by adjusting the central bank's digital currency interest rate, and help break the zero interest rate lower limit
operation system
fan Yifei, vice governor of the people's Bank of China, said in the article that the digital currency of the people's Bank of China should adopt a two-tier operation system. This model does not change the relationship between creditor's rights and debt of currency in circulation, does not change the existing money supply system and al account structure, does not constitute a competition for commercial banks' deposit currency, and does not increase commercial banks' dependence on the interbank lending market
will not affect the lending ability of commercial banks, and will not lead to the phenomenon of "financial disintermediation". At the same time, because it does not affect the existing monetary policy transmission mechanism, it will not strengthen the pro cyclical effect under the pressure environment, and it can improve the convenience and security of payment, and it also has the credit advantage of central bank endorsement
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
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.
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.
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.