The impact of digital currency on banks

1. Looking back on the whole course of money development, every evolution of money form has greatly promoted the development of circulation
there are ecological changes in personal consumption, business operation and banking.

2. On the issue of issuing their own digital currency, central banks are always less thunderous. Central banks around the world are considering issuing their own digital currencies to compete with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, but they have been unable to do so for a long time

the media's attention to the central bank's digital currency has increased significantly, especially after Zuckerberg testified in Congress on the Libra issue and Christina Lagarde acknowledged the "clear demand" for stable currency at her first media reception as president of the European Central Bank, which seems to have changed the public's view on this matter, Let many people in cryptocurrency community think that cbdcs is in sight<

according to the latest survey report released by the bank for International Settlements, central banks in the past seven years have been investigating this technology and assessing its impact. Of the 63 central banks surveyed, 55 said they were unlikely to issue cbdcs in the next three years, and only one reported that they were "highly likely to issue large-scale cbdcs in the next three to six years."

although the proportion of central banks studying cbdcs is very high, the crux of the problem is that it is mainly theoretical and investigative work. Only five central banks have concted more in-depth research and real project development or experimentation - but that still does not mean that they will necessarily issue cbdcs

through close observation, it is more and more obvious that both Libra recently released by Facebook and the new stable currency assets have had a significant impact on the central bank. Today's situation took hundreds of years to form, but it changed in a few months; Competition, the most terrifying and unfamiliar concept that has never been thought of before and penetrated into the elite society of central banks, is now knocking at the door

it can be said that the solution to the current situation is still unclear. Some people who are familiar with these things even say that they are bluffing. However, in Lagarde's own words, the slow and wait-and-see regulatory approach can no longer meet the needs

1. What is central bank digital currency<

what is the difference between central bank digital currency CBDC and other digital currencies

CBDC is a new form of currency, which is directly issued by the central bank in digital form as legal tender. The current form of legal currency is cash, reserve deposit or balance settlement< There are two main differences between CBDC and other digital currencies (including cryptocurrency and other forms of central bank currency):

1. CBDC has nothing to do with cryptoassets. They're not decentralized, they don't have to be blockchain based, and they're certainly not anonymous, they're not unlicensed, they're not censored< 2. Contrary to the current digital cash, the operation structure of CBDC will be different from other forms of central bank currency. CBDC has more powerful functions. They are programmable, can generate interest, can be cleared in near real time, and have cheaper handling charges and wider openness

when designing CBDC, the speed of central banks is different. Different central banks adopt their own approach. However, in general, there are three problems being explored: whether CBDC should be based on token or account number, whether CBDC should be batch (only open to banks) or retail (open to the public), and whether it should be based on DLT

when CBDC is to be implemented, things will become complicated, and there are many thorny problems to be considered

for example, once CBDC is launched, does it need to cancel cash? Should CBDC carry interest? Should they have face value like cash? Or linked to the total price index? What impact will this have on commercial banks? What about anonymity and privacy? All these questions need to be answered<

2. Motivation for issuing CBDC

in the 2017 staff discussion paper, the Bank of Canada gave six reasons for issuing CBDC in an article entitled "central bank digital currency: motivation and impact":

1. Ensure that the central bank provides sufficient cash to the public, and maintain the seigniorage revenue of the central bank

2, Support non-traditional monetary policy

3. Rece overall risk and improve financial stability

4. Improve payment competitiveness

5. Promote financial inclusiveness

6. Curb criminal activities

looking back at the bank for International Settlements survey we analyzed earlier, payment security and domestic efficiency are selected as the most important motives of the central bank. According to a large number of papers published by the central bank and other large financial institutions, for developed countries, the transformation into a cashless society is the main driving factor, while for developing countries, financial inclusiveness, cost rection and operational efficiency are the main motivation

throughout the rest of the reports and the literature that can be found, the fierce competition brought about by bitcoin and other innovations in the cryptocurrency instry, as well as the clear need for "one step ahead", of course, are not listed as the reasons for issuing CBDC< The advantages and potential risks of CBDC are very low.

if the central bank starts to launch CBDC and succeeds in the end, there are many potential benefits

from a technical point of view, CBDC is much better than the current form of legal currency. They can be tracked better, collect taxes more conveniently, transmit monetary policy better, have better financial inclusiveness, and rece the cost of procing physical currency

the most obvious advantage is that payment is cheaper and faster, whether it is domestic payment or cross-border payment

in addition to the design and implementation problems, a key problem of issuing CBDC is that CBDC may increase the risk of bank operation. However, this only happens when banks promise that their deposits can be converted into CBDC on demand, which is not necessarily the case, according to the Bank of England document

4. Facts on the ground

how far is it from us to see a real CBDC appear in the market? It's hard to estimate, but at present, we can sum up the current situation in one sentence: all talk but no practice

if we put aside the failed digital currencies of Ecuador, Tunisia and Venezuela, we can only do theoretical research, a small amount of experiments, and issue some feasible CBDC issuance announcements supported by the state in the future

the most famous CBDC projects in progress are: e-peso in Uruguay (the project was successfully tested in 2018), DCEP in China, "project Inthanon" in Thailand, e-krona in Sweden (still in the research stage)...

5. The revolution has not yet been successful, and comrades still need to work hard

considering the factors mentioned above, Most of the headlines about CBDC's upcoming release are groundless. All projects scheled to be released this year have been delayed

in fact, there is still a long way to go for the birth of CBDC, and to convince the public, we need more than a statement. Given the current situation, it seems that CBDC and other cryptocurrencies may not affect each other - at least for now.

3. Digital currency exchange brings a lot of influence to the financial circle, because it is very convenient if there is no cash currency in the future.

4. In market economic activities, money not only acts as the medium of commodity circulation, but also as the representative of property, becoming the tool of credit activities. A series of economic activities related to money revenue and expenditure, such as transactions and lending, are financial activities. The earliest commodity exchange in human history is direct barter, Barter. Barter without money often takes a lot of trouble. If Party A needs Party B's goods, but Party B doesn't need Party A's goods, they can't conclude a deal. Its disadvantages become more and more obvious with the expansion of the scope of commodity exchange. 1. Money performs the function of medium of exchange. In the practice of exchange, people graally get used to using some kind of goods that are easy to be accepted by everyone as the basis of commodity exchange; Middleman;, Second, currency performs the function of valuation unit, which is to give a certain price to the commodity. There are tens of millions of commodities in the market, and the evaluation of the same commodity's utility varies greatly, Therefore, it is often difficult for people to understand the exchange ratio of various commodities, and the transaction is naturally difficult to be fair. Because the currency that can be obtained after a commodity is sold is the price of the commodity, once the commodity has formed a widely accepted price in the market transaction, people no longer need to remember the exchange ratio of various commodities one by one, As long as you look at the price, you can see at a glance. Money has gone through the evolution process from physical money to metal money, and then from metal money to paper money, Accounting currency in the form of bill and various kinds of electronic currency in recent years have replaced some paper money for circulation. Money can be easily exchanged for a variety of goods and finance at any time. Therefore, in addition to performing the functions of exchange medium and valuation unit in commodity exchange, money itself has also become the representative of property, Not only can it be stored as future purchasing power, but also it can realize value-added by transferring to others for interest. Transferring the right to use currency for a period of time is money lending activities. In the lending activities of transferring the right to use currency, the relationship between the two parties is a kind of creditor's right and debt relationship. The creditor temporarily transfers the right to use currency for a period of time, The user of money (debtor) has the obligation to return after a certain period of time and pay a certain amount of interest

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For atoms: the number of electrons and protons is the number of elements. For example, h is element 1, which contains one electron and one proton

The neutron number should know the mass number. If you haven't learned this yet, the mass number can be simply regarded as the relative atomic mass, the number of neutrons = the relative atomic mass minus the number of protons. For example, if O is element 8, it has eight electrons and eight protons. Relative to the atomic mass of 16, the number of neutrons = 16-8 = 8

for ions, protons and neutrons are exactly the same as above, and electrons change, gain more and lose less. The method is similar

the number of electrons outside the nucleus = atomic number = proton number inside the nucleus = nuclear charge number (the number of electrons outside the nucleus of an ion = atomic number (sum) - charge number)

the maximum number of electrons held by each electron layer is 2n ^ 2 (n is the electron layer number). The number of electrons in the outermost layer is not more than 8 (when the k layer is the outermost layer, it is not more than 2). There are no more than 18 electrons in the second outer layer and 32 electrons in the last three layer

the extranuclear electrons are always arranged in the electron layer with the lowest energy first, and then from the inside to the outside, they are arranged in the L layer and then in the m layer. The above four laws are interrelated and cannot be understood in isolation

extended data:

neutrons exist in neutron stars as clusters (neutron stars are one of the few possible endpoints after supernova explosions e to gravitational collapse at the end of star evolution.) In the middle. The neutrons in the solar system mainly exist in all kinds of nuclei, and the neutrons in the elements are very rare β Decay is a change in which the neutron in the element releases an electron to become an element of the previous element sequence

Neutrons can be classified according to their velocities. High energy (high-speed) neutrons have the ability to ionize and penetrate deep into matter. Neutrons are the only ionizing radiation that can make other substances radioactive. This process is called "neutron excitation"“ "Neutron excitation" is widely used in the proction of radioactive materials in medical, academic and instrial fields

High energy neutrons can travel very long distances in air. Neutron radiation needs to be masked by hydrogen rich materials, such as concrete and water. Nuclear reactor is a common neutron source, and water is used as an effective neutron shield

arrangement rule:

1. The electrons are arranged in different layers from the nucleus to the nucleus, and the energy is from low to high

The maximum number of electrons in each layer is 2n2 (n is the number of electron layers)

There are no more than 8 electrons in the outermost layer (no more than 2 in the first layer), no more than 18 electrons in the second outer layer and no more than 32 electrons in the last three layers

In general, the electrons are always in the lowest energy layer, that is, the first layer, when the first layer is full, then the second layer, when the second layer is full, then the third layer