Central Bank launches digital currency function

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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

2. The central bank has never launched or planned to launch any digital currency
all the digital currencies claimed to be launched by the central bank are frauds

3. Digital currency generally refers to bitcoin, lightcoin, Puyin, dogcoin, Ethereum and other digital cryptocurrencies
according to media reports, before the Spring Festival, the blockchain based digital bill trading platform promoted by the people's Bank of China has been successfully tested. After the Spring Festival, the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank will also be officially listed. This means that the people's Bank of China will become the first central bank to study digital currency and its real application.

4. There will be two situations. One is that there will be a globally recognized digital currency, which can circulate in the world. Another situation is the emergence of a super strong situation, just like the current international situation. This kind of digital currency may be issued by a powerful country or alliance, and other countries will also have their own digital currency, but it mainly plays a supporting role. Bitcoin, Ruitai coin and vitality coin may only exist as an asset class at that time.

5. The introction of digital currency by the central bank does not mean the introction of a digital currency other than RMB
it's about digitizing the RMB.

6. The traditional currency is "currency", that is, it can exchange any commodity, and its use is unrestricted. Because it does not carry information, it is difficult to trace. If the traditional currency expands with the growth of data, it will lose the function of value measurement, that is, it will become waste paper. However, digital currency is different. Although it is also "currency", it can carry information, so it has stability and can be used as the "anchor" of data assets rather than being "carried away" by data assets
in fact, the core attribute of bitcoin, which was the first to practice the concept of digital currency, is that the total amount of bitcoin can be controlled, so it can be used to measure the value of other commodities rather than being determined by other commodities. Of course, in terms of nature, bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market
therefore, from a strategic perspective, under the background that informatization and digitization have become one of the main trends of economic development, the issuance of sovereign digital currency is the general trend.