Digital currency will not lead to inflation
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 role of digital currency:
1. First of all, the central bank's digital currency can provide a huge data base for monetary policy and macro Prudential policy, so that the regulatory authorities can collect real-time trading books of different frequency and different institutions according to their needs, and it is complete and real. This information advantage can help the central bank use policy tools more accurately and flexibly
Secondly, the central bank's digital currency technology can track the flow of funds and help the regulatory authorities to comprehensively monitor and assess financial risks. Finally, the central bank's digital money technology is concive to the transmission of interest rate of monetary policy. Digital currency technology supports "point-to-point" payment and settlement, which can improve the liquidity of market participants. Only the digital currency of the central bank, which is generally accepted by the whole society, can radiate this advantage to the participants of different financial markets, so as to improve the liquidity of financial markets. This will make the term structure of interest rate smoother and the transmission mechanism of interest rate smoother
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digital currency can be considered as a virtual currency based on node network and digital encryption algorithm. The core characteristics of digital currency are mainly reflected in three aspects: because it comes from some open algorithms, digital currency has no issuing subject, so no one or institution can control its issuing; Because the number of algorithm solutions is fixed, the total amount of digital currency is fixed, which fundamentally eliminates the possibility of inflation caused by the overuse of virtual currency; Because the transaction process needs the approval of each node in the network, the transaction process of digital currency is safe enough
China's digital currency is as long as there is a mobile phone, no network, as long as the touch can be paid, and with detailed transaction records, it is very helpful to combat money laundering crime; This currency is mainly aimed at grabbing shares for Alipay, WeChat and POS terminals. It can also pave the way for RMB internationalization. Digital currency is not only safe and endorsed by the state, but the global central bank is pushing digital money. Now the digital currency is still in the testing stage. What time will it be popularized? It will have to wait until the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in February 2022 to fully promote the use
China's central bank's digital currency can be used for daily micro payments. Because it will be more stable with the endorsement of the state, the central bank's digital currency is different from bitcoin and Libra launched by Facebook. I give digital currency legal effect, and indivials can't refuse to accept it. At the same time, it is very convenient to use. It can be paid without binding any bank account. Digital currency will not cause inflation. Now it can be implemented and used in Shenzhen, xiong'an, Cheng, Suzhou and other cities. It also shows that the era of paperless is coming. Digital currency is a new concept with high technology content. In the future, RMB will enter the 3.0 era. Although the current digital currency is more powerful, it is still unable to put an end to money laundering and corruption
money can be divided into two types: one is commodity money, which is used as money by things with intrinsic value, such as gold, silver, copper, grain and cigarettes in special periods; The other is credit currency, which is enforced by national laws and whose intrinsic value is zero (or close to zero). For example, the paper currency used in most countries now is credit currency< No matter how much gold and silver coins are minted, there will be no inflation. This is because they are valuable commodities, and their mining and casting process are integrated with human labor. Only because they have a series of physical properties suitable for the medium of exchange, they are graally selected as currency, In addition to money, they have other uses as general commodities, so there is no inflation in the gold standard. Moreover, historically, in the period of metal currency, there was not enough gold, silver and copper for casting currency, and all dynasties were in trouble; Money shortage;, We can't find enough precious metals to make money. According to some people, the era of metal currency has always been accompanied by deflation. This is essentially because the exploitation of precious metals can't keep up with the speed of economic development, and there is no possibility of inflation<
after the instrial revolution, with the great development of proctivity, the rapid expansion of economic scale and the sharp increase in the demand for money, people finally understood that if they were still in the era of metal money, it would be far from enough to use all the gold and silver in the world to make money, so they later abolished the gold standard and promoted credit money, In other words, today's banknotes are as many as you want. The cost of acquiring them is too low, and their intrinsic value is close to zero. At this time, inflation is easy to occur, because the government always has the impulse to print more banknotes. A reasonable amount of money should be determined by the demand for commodity exchange. Each unit of money should correspond to a piece of resources in the economy. The growth rate of money should be consistent with the growth rate of the number of commodities, so as to ensure that inflation does not occur. Otherwise, if there is no corresponding economic resources for more issued banknotes, It will lead to a larger ratio between money and resources, and the need to use more money to buy the same piece of resources, that is, inflation
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this article is from the macroeconomics edition of the National People's Congress Economic Forum http://www.pinggu.org/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=849022&page=1