Has China developed digital currency
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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by digital currency, the central bank means digital currency.
we are ready to discover digital currency, but it is still in the planning and brewing stage, and there is no formal issue
this project will upgrade the existing currency discovery mechanism, and each unit of currency is given its own special identification mechanism
in addition, the bank account, Zhang Sanhui gives you 100, Li Sihui gives you 100, under the current system, there is no essential difference between the two 100, For you, for the system, the bank account is the same bookkeeping symbol, but under the digital currency mechanism, the system can correctly identify which unit currency, that is, the 200 yuan, is given by Zhang San and which by Li Si. Note that this is in the electronic system, not the actual paper currency, which is equivalent to giving DNA to each unit currency
According to reports, since 2014, the people's Bank of China has set up a special research team, and further enriched its strength in early 2015 to conct in-depth research on digital currency issuance and business operation framework, key technologies of digital currency, and digital currency issuance and circulation environment
At the same time, digital currency is born in the existing financial system, which is bound to be affected by the existing payment system and information technology. Theoretically speaking, the payment system mainly deals with the demand deposit in the broad money, while the digital currency mainly belongs to the category of cashArticle source: bit110 network
It's illegal
the central bank indicated that it has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency
In addition, the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
extended information:
virtual currency is the electronization of illegal currency, and its original issuer is not the central bank. This kind of virtual currency is mainly limited to circulation in a specific virtual environment. Digital currency can be used for real goods and services transactions, but only the digital currency issued by the state is legal digital currency
in 2013, the central bank, together with five ministries and commissions, issued the notice on prevention of bitcoin risks, which clearly defined non legal digital currencies such as bitcoin as virtual commodities, which do not exist in the form of currency and legal currency