April 14 central bank digital currency

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The digital currency of the central bank is DCEP

the name of the digital currency developed by the central bank is DCEP (digital currency electronic payment). DC is digital currency. EP is electronic payment. Payment transmits digital things through a certain way, not paper currency. Therefore, electronic payment itself has the attribute of digital currency

The characteristics of digital currency are: low transaction cost; Fast trading speed; Highly anonymous

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Application of digital currency

I. fast, economic and safe payment and settlement

cross border payment helps RMB internationalization. In 2015, the settlement volume of cross-border payment involving current account is about 8 trillion yuan. To accelerate the internationalization of RMB, cross-border payment and settlement procts and solutions with low cost, high efficiency and low risk are needed

At present, there are still a lot of repetitive human work in the bank's electronic loan process and processing process, and as the basic support of loan issuance, many of the collateral has the situation of false pricing or multiple or even no collateral. We can consider using digital currency to price and track bank collateral:

3. Bill finance and supply chain finance

in recent years, various bill market businesses based on commercial bills have grown rapidly, and bill financing procts have become a hot area of Internet financing. However, about 70% of the current bill businesses in China are still paper transactions, Supply chain finance is also highly dependent on labor costs

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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

3. It is very clear in the speech of the central bank that the digital currency is M0. What is M0? M0 is cash. We speculate that the basic framework for the central bank to issue digital currency in the future should be a two-tier structure. The core is the database of the central bank, and the periphery is the blockchain of different instries, regions and third parties. Why? Only by using a decentralized system in the second layer can you ensure that the money is controlled by the users themselves and that the digital currency really becomes M0

we speculate that once the central bank issues digital currency in the future, the periphery of the structure must be a decentralized system. At present, blockchain is the best choice

when talking about digital currency, the central bank also mentioned another concept, which is called programmable currency. How to understand? For the computer, it has a certain internal self-control function. Take the early object-oriented language as an example, it requires at least two functions, one is the constructor, the other is the destructor. You have to solve the problem of its creation as well as its extinction

through programming, the central bank can control the whole life cycle of money creation, circulation and withdrawal

in the absence of digital currency and programmable currency, the currency issued by the central bank circulates freely in the society. How to return to the cage in the end? One is the return of derivative currency of commercial banks, the other is the return of basic currency of central bank. The former is controlled by the central bank through deposit reserve and other policies, while the latter is controlled by the tax system. If we go up to programmable digital currency in the future, the central bank will have much more control. Even in circulation, control can be increased. That's why central banks are very interested in blockchain technology.

4. After the people's Bank of China announced the launch of digital currency as soon as possible in January 2017, the governor of the people's Bank of China, in an exclusive interview with Caixin weekly, elaborated on digital currency in detail, saying that there was no established timetable. The relationship between digital currency and cash will be parallel and graally replaced for quite a long time.

5. On April 14, a screenshot of the digital currency DCEP personal wallet app spread wildly on the Internet. According to the news, the central bank's digital currency DCEP has been tested in some banks, which means that the central bank's digital currency is about to come out. So how can the central bank buy it after issuing legal digital currency
it is understood that the research and development of legal digital currency in China started in 2014. In order to promote the research and development of digital currency, the central bank has also set up a digital currency Research Institute. The project of the central bank's digital currency is called DCEP, which is also called digital currency and electronic payment tools. In recent years, the research and development of digital currency has accelerated in China. At present, in addition to the internal test concted in Agricultural Bank of China, DCEP has also been concted in several other major commercial banks
Mu Changchun, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank, said that the functional attributes of the digital currency launched by the central bank and paper money are identical, except that the digital currency is a kind of legal tender in digital form
many friends who have invested in bitcoin and other digital currencies want to know how the central bank purchases digital currency after they hear that the central bank is going to issue digital currency, but I'm afraid they will be disappointed. The digital currency issued by the central bank is legal tender, which is equivalent to a substitute for paper currency. Compared with paper currency, digital currency is just a change of trading medium, The functions and properties of the two are the same. Just imagine, who would use a 100 yuan note to buy a 100 yuan digital currency
specifically, the legal digital currency issued by the central bank does not pay interest and can be used in small and high-frequency business scenarios. Because the central bank's legal digital currency uses blockchain technology and has the characteristics of decentralization, the security of using digital currency for transactions will be higher, and the transaction information will be transparent, so the central bank can track the flow of funds, Can effectively combat money laundering and other crimes. When people use the central bank's digital currency, they should abide by all the current cash management regulations
in general, the legal digital currency issued by the central bank is not an investment type digital currency similar to bitcoin, so there is no problem of purchasing the central bank's digital currency for investment
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6. Yes, the digital currency developed by the central bank is called DCEP. DC is digital currency and EP is electronic payment. Payment transmits digital things through a certain way, not paper currency. Therefore, electronic payment itself has the attribute of digital currency.