Is digital currency a paper currency
digital currency is a kind of legal tender, which must be issued by the central bank. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digital currency, which is not a network virtual currency, because it is not limited to virtual space, but is often used for real goods and services transactions, such as bitcoin, Wright coin, bitstock, etc. at present, there are thousands of digital currencies issued around the world
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1. Impact on financial infrastructure
the decentralized mechanism of value exchange based on distributed ledger technology has changed the basic settings of gross and net settlement on which financial market infrastructure depends. The use of distributed ledgers also poses challenges to trading, clearing and settlement, as it promotes the disintermediation of traditional service providers in different markets and infrastructures. These changes may have potential impacts on market infrastructure other than retail payment systems, such as large payment systems, securities settlement systems or trading databases
If digital currency and distributed ledger based technology are widely used, it will bring challenges to the intermediary role of financial system participants, especially banks. As a financial intermediary, banks perform the ties of acting supervisors and supervise borrowers on behalf of depositors. Usually, banks also carry out liquidity and maturity conversion business to realize the financing from depositors to borrowers. If digital currency and distributed ledger are widely used, any subsequent disintermediation may have an impact on savings or credit evaluation mechanismsthe functions and properties of digital currency are exactly the same as paper money, but its form is digital Mu Changchun, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank, said that the central bank's digital currency is a digital alternative to paper money, that is, digital currency and electronic payment tools. If we regard the digital currency issued by the central bank as digital RMB cash, we can understand the concept of digital currency very well
Mu Changchun once described such a use scenario: as long as you and I have DC / EP digital wallets on mobile phones, we don't even need the network. As long as the mobile phone has electricity and two mobile phones touch each other, we can transfer the digital currency in one person's digital wallet to another person. Digital money does not need to bind any bank account when it is paid, unlike WeChat and Alipay bank. p>
fan Yifei, vice governor of the central bank, said that the central bank's digital currency focuses on replacing M0 (i.e. banknotes and coins), and maintains the properties and main features of cash, which meets the needs of portability and anonymity, and will be the best tool to replace cash
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Digital RMB will be carried out in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and other places
the notice on printing and distributing the overall plan for comprehensively deepening the innovation and development of service trade was released on the official website of the Ministry of Commerce on the 14th, which announced the pilot areas of digital RMB
the reporter noted that Article 93 "comprehensively deepen the pilot tasks, specific measures and division of responsibilities for innovative development of trade in services" proposes to carry out digital RMB pilot projects in Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and other pilot areas in central and Western China
according to the notice, the people's Bank of China has formulated policy safeguard measures; First, Shenzhen, Cheng, Suzhou, xiong'an new area and other relevant departments of the future Winter Olympic Games scene will assist in the promotion, and then expand to other regions as appropriate
the pilot areas for comprehensive deepening are Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing (21 municipal districts including Fuling District), Hainan, Dalian, Xiamen, Qing, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Changchun, Harbin, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Cheng, Guiyang, Kunming, Xi'an, Urumqi, Suzhou, Weihai, xiong'an New District of Hebei, Gui'an New District of Guizhou Shaanxi Xixian new area and other 28 provinces and cities (regions)
inflation generally refers to the devaluation and price rise of banknotes caused by the issue of banknotes exceeding the amount of money actually needed in commodity circulation. Its essence is that the total social demand is greater than the total social supply< In modern economics, inflation means the rise of the overall price level. General inflation is the decline of market value or purchasing power of currency, while currency depreciation is the relative decline of currency value between two economies. The former is used to describe the national currency value, while the latter is used to describe the added value in the international market. The relationship between them is one of the controversies in economics
the circulation law of paper money shows that the circulation of paper money can not exceed the amount of gold and silver money it symbolically represents. Once it exceeds this amount, the paper money will depreciate and the price will rise, resulting in inflation. Inflation can only occur under the condition of paper currency circulation, but not under the condition of gold and silver currency circulation. Because gold and silver money has its own value, as a means of storage, it can spontaneously adjust the amount of money in circulation and make it adapt to the amount of money needed for commodity circulation. Under the condition of paper currency circulation, because paper currency itself has no value, it is only a symbol of gold and silver currency, and can not be used as a storage means. Therefore, if the circulation of paper currency exceeds the quantity needed for commodity circulation, it will depreciate
for example, if the amount of gold and silver currency needed in commodity circulation remains unchanged, and the amount of paper money issued exceeds twice the amount of gold and silver currency, the unit paper money can only represent 1 / 2 of the value of the unit gold and silver currency. In this case, if the price is measured by paper money, the price will double, which is commonly known as currency devaluation. At this time, the amount of paper money in circulation is double that of gold and silver money needed in circulation, which is inflation. In macroeconomics, inflation mainly refers to the general rise of prices and wages.