Focus on business opportunities brought by digital currency
The hot sale of applepay payment has caused quite a stir. Convenient digital payment makes "digital currency" a hot topic again as early as January this year, the central bank said that it would actively absorb the important achievements and practical experience of digital currency research at home and abroad, and strive for the early launch of the digital currency issued by the central bank. Recently, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan mentioned "digital currency" again in an interview with the media. Obviously, digital currency may not be far away from us
why issue digital currency
" In a few years, cash may not exist; This new trend has overturned many people's usual ideas. However, in order to explore the essence of money, its contractual nature determines that it can have different forms of expression. It is not surprising that money has changed its appearance in different historical periods“ From the perspective of historical development trend, money always evolves with the development of technology and economic activities. From the early physical currency, commodity currency to the later credit currency, it is a natural choice to adapt to the development of human commercial society. " Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the people's Bank of China, said
Digital currency is an unregulated and digital currency, which is usually issued and managed by developers and accepted and used by members of a specific virtual community. The European Banking authority defines virtual currency as a digital representation of value, which is not issued by the central bank or authorities, nor linked with legal currency. However, because it is accepted by the public, it can be used as a means of payment, or it can be transferred, stored or traded in electronic form
in recent years, the excessive issuance of banknotes has led to the aggravation of inflation, the frequent security crisis of third-party payment, and the graal maturity of blockchain technology, so decentralized digital currencies such as bitcoin, Ethereum and reborn have emerged. Digital currency has the advantages of low transaction cost, fast transaction speed, high anonymity and fixed amount of money
At the same time, the use scenarios of digital currency become more and more abundant, which makes the user acceptance grow. At present, the use of digital currency has covered all kinds of scenes, such as shopping consumption, wage payment, transportation, travel, takeout settlement and tuition payment. The expanding landing scene has also brought a wider range of consumers. In general, although the number of users of digital currency still accounts for a small proportion of the total population, the number of users is growing. At present, the utilization rate of digital currency has exceeded 10% in 10 countries around the world In June 2019, Facebook launched Libra virtual cryptocurrency, which has caused worldwide influence. The emergence of Libra may form a global super sovereign currency, thus affecting the traditional transaction settlement currency. For China, the emergence of Libra, on the one hand, will have an impact on China's traditional currency and threaten the sovereign status of China's currency; On the other hand, because RMB is not included in Libra's basket of currencies, it will rece the reserve demand of RMB by central banks, thus hindering the internationalization of RMB. In response to this threat, CCTV timely launched the central bank digital currency. In September 2019, according to China Daily, the central bank's digital currency closed-loop test has begun, and the central bank's digital currency is about to come outcoincidentally, in addition to China, central banks around the world have also announced that they will launch a centralized digital currency based on national credit. In 2015, Ecuador took the lead in launching the national version of digital currency, which can not only rece the issuance cost and increase the convenience, but also enable people in remote areas who cannot have banking resources to obtain financial services through the digital platform. At present, Canada, Brazil, Norway, the United Kingdom and other countries are studying the central bank legal digital currency, while the Bahamas, Sweden, Russia and other countries are discussing the possibility of digital currency issuance. Generally speaking, the developing countries which have received a great impact on digital currency have supported legal digital currency for financial inclusion, breaking through sanctions and other reasons
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The central bank's digital RMB has legal compensation, Digital RMB does not pay interest, and can be used in small, retail and high-frequency business scenarios. It is no different from paper money, and it is very convenient to use. according to relevant instry insiders, the use of digital currency does not need the Internet, and it can be said to be simple and convenient with a mobile phone, The cost is low
is there any security guarantee? In fact, the central bank's digital RMB has the nature of legal compensation. Digital RMB does not calculate and pay interest, and can be used in small, retail and high-frequency business scenarios. It is no different from paper money. Moreover, because of the nature of legal compensation, we can't refuse to accept the central bank's digital RMB. Moreover, the digital currency Research Institute of the people's Bank of China says that it can realize the circulation of digital currency between different clients in the transaction process by means of technical solutions, generating new digital currency and canceling old digital currency. After being excited for so long, it turned out that it was just an oolong. However, some people said that this warm-up is likely that the digital currency will be released soon
Remember the guy who accidentally threw away the hard disk with a lot of bitcoin as garbage? Well, he made the headlines again recently, and the recent surge in the price of bitcoin has inspired him to look for his treasure again. He was ready to make his hands dirty & hellip& hellip; Dig a landfill
Although this is the largest known case of bitcoin loss, Howells is not the only one to encounter this tragedy. Another story is that Campbell Simpson, an editor at Gizmodo Australia, threw away about 1400 BTC. When he bought the bitcoin, he spent only a $25. Today, these bitcoins are worth as much as $16 million However, the person who lost the most bitcoin may be the founder of bitcoin himself. According to recent research by chainalysis, the 1 million bitcoins held by Ben Cong, the founder of bitcoin, are likely to never enter the broader market. It is believed that these bitcoins are scattered in the counting wallet, and their owners have either lost their private key or died. If the founders of bitcoin are still alive, they will either perfectly embody the dictionary's definition of & quot; Holder & quot;, Or someone more tragic than Campbell Simpson or James Howells