Legal digital currency is the digitalization of RMB

1. Currency digitalization is like WeChat Alipay, and bankcard pays
1. digital currency facing two risks. The first is the technical level. Digital currency relies on blockchain technology and a system, which will make it suffer from security impact, such as hacker attacks on computer systems. We have seen many practical problems in this process< Another risk of digital currency is credit risk. Because there are middlemen in digital currency transactions, these middlemen are different from real organizations. In reality, organizations can be seen and felt, but the middlemen of digital currency are on the Internet, so the risk is greater
3. Digital currency has the characteristics of anonymity, quickness and irrevocability. In addition, bitcoin and other digital currencies have high circulation in the world, so many criminals use digital currency as a new money laundering channel. Moreover, there are many different ways to realize money laundering through digital currency. Generally speaking, the probability of new money laundering being found and investigated is lower than before. Many countries have no effective means and technology to combat money laundering through digital currency. These factors lead to criminals prefer this way of money laundering
investment is risky and business should be cautious

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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. Digital currency is a kind of legal encrypted digital currency, which is not only a payment tool but also a currency. It is essentially different from Alipay and WeChat payment. Alipay, WeChat payment and mobile phone banks are all electronic money, not digital money. These are all payment methods based on electronic accounts, which are in essence just a process of informatization of legal currency, not digital currency in a strict sense
moreover, it is totally different from q-coin and bitcoin. Commonly known as q-coin and bitcoin, these belong to virtual currency. Compared with digital currency, the most fundamental difference lies in the difference of issuers

virtual currency is the electronization of illegal currency. The issuer is not the central bank, and it can only circulate in a specific virtual environment, such as Tencent Q coin and other game coins; Digital currency can be used for real goods and services transactions, but only the digital currency issued by the state is legal digital currency, bitcoin is illegal digital currency

4. Digital RMB is the legal digital currency not yet issued by the people's Bank of China, namely "digital currency electronic payment" (DC / EP) [1]. Based on the generalized account system, it supports the loose coupling function of bank account, is equivalent to banknotes and coins, and has value characteristics and legal compensation.

5. China's legal digital currency refers to digital RMB, which is issued by the people's Bank of China in the form of digital legal currency. It is operated by designated operating institutions and exchanged to the public. Based on the broad account system, it supports the loose coupling function of bank accounts, and has the same price as banknotes and coins. It has value characteristics and legal compensation, and supports controllable anonymity. There are two key points in the concept of digital RMB. One is that digital RMB is legal tender in digital form; Another point is that it is equivalent to banknotes and coins. Digital RMB is mainly positioned at M0, that is, banknotes and coins in circulation
the central bank's digital currency has national credit and is equivalent to legal currency. Its functional attributes are exactly the same as those of traditional paper currency, but it is in digital form. Digital currency is concive to recing transaction costs, improving financial efficiency, and preventing money laundering and other illegal transactions

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1. For commercial banks and other financial institutions, it is both an opportunity and a challenge. In the future, more innovations such as digital credit, digital assets and digital liabilities will be derived from digital currency, while the non sovereign "digital right currency" will graally cool down. In addition, the central bank can improve the efficiency of monetary operation monitoring and enrich monetary policy means after the issuance of digital currency

2. Issuing the legal digital currency of the central bank will make it possible to collect the data of money creation, bookkeeping and flow in real time. After data desensitization, it will conct in-depth analysis through big data and other technical means, so as to provide a useful reference for money supply, formulation and Implementation of monetary policy, and provide a useful means for economic regulation and control

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characteristics of digital currency

Central Bank digital currency is quite different from electronic payment in some functions. In the past, the fund transfer of electronic payment instruments must be completed through the traditional bank account, which adopts the way of "account tightly coupled"

and the central bank's digital currency is "account loose coupling", which can be separated from the traditional bank account to realize the value transfer and greatly rece the dependence of the transaction link on the account. The digital currency of the central bank can be as easy to circulate as cash, which is concive to the circulation and internationalization of RMB. At the same time, it can realize controllable anonymity