What do the big four banks mean by digital currency

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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. DCEP (digital currency electronic payment), the Chinese version of digital currency project, namely digital currency and electronic payment instrument, is the legal digital currency in the research of the people's Bank of China and a kind of digital currency
Digital RMB, issued by the people's Bank of China, is a controllable anonymous payment tool with value characteristics and legal compensation, which is operated by designated operating institutions and exchanged with the public. It is based on the generalized account system, supports the loose coupling function of bank accounts, and is equivalent to banknotes and coins

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For many people, the concept of digital currency is a mystery. But there is no doubt that digital currency is different from virtual currency

At the same time, digital currency is different from electronic payment. In the actual use experience, digital money and electronic payment may feel similar, but they are still quite different in essence. Before digital currency, the financial instry has been highly informationized. Such as Internet banking, WeChat, Alipay and so on pay the popularization of electronic technology, physical cash accounts for only a very small part of the total circulation of money. In spite of this, because the money used in the transaction comes from the bank account, it actually corresponds to the banknotes

4. Digital currency is the abbreviation of digital currency. It is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy. It can not be completely equivalent to the virtual currency in the virtual world, because it is often used for real goods and services transactions, not limited to online games and other virtual space. At present, the central bank does not recognize or issue digital currency, and digital currency does not have to have a benchmark currency. The popular digital currencies in 2015 include bitcoin, bitstocks, etc. At present, there are thousands of digital currencies issued all over the world
in February 2017, the central bank made new progress in issuing digital currency. The block chain based digital bill trading platform promoted by the central bank has been tested successfully. The legal digital currency issued by the central bank has been put into trial operation on the platform. 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 be the first central bank to issue digital currency and carry out real application in the world.

5. 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.

6. Bank of China has not launched or plans to launch any digital currency, let alone specific events. In China, the major commercial banks have drawn a clear line with digital currency for a long time. Although the attitude towards digital currency is not so cold now, the law is still not prohibited. However, the central bank held a digital currency seminar earlier this year and planned to launch its own digital currency, which is different from cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, Ruitai and Laite.

7. China's only national licensed virtual digital currency pilot operation base does not exist. China has reservations about digital currency, and digital currency is still in a gray area in China. China's regulation of digital currency is still a blank. Although the central bank claims to issue its own digital currency, this kind of digital currency is more just the digital currency of RMB, which is totally different from the design principles of bitcoin, Ruitai currency, Laite currency, thousand gold card and other digital cryptocurrencies. The digital currency that the central bank plans to issue puts more emphasis on control, and the central bank needs to have absolute control and issuing power. The central bank is the only operating body.