The characteristics of digital currency issued by the Central Ba
compared with traditional bank transfer, remittance and other methods, digital currency transaction does not need to pay fees to a third party, and its transaction cost is lower, especially compared with cross-border payment which provides high service charges to payment service providers
2. Fast transaction speed
the blockchain technology used in digital currency has the characteristics of decentralization, High anonymity
in addition to the point-to-point transaction without intermediary participation, one of the advantages of digital currency over other electronic payment methods is that it supports remote point-to-point payment, It doesn't need any trusted third party as an intermediary, and the two sides of the transaction can complete the transaction in a completely strange situation without mutual trust. Therefore, it has higher anonymity and can protect the privacy of traders, but it also creates convenience for cyber crime, which is easy to be used by money laundering and other criminal activities
Digital currency is characterized by low transaction cost, fast transaction speed and high anonymity
1, low transaction cost
compared with traditional bank transfer, remittance and other ways, digital currency transaction does not need to pay fees to the third party, and its transaction cost is lower, especially compared with the cross-border payment that provides high handling charges to payment service providers
2. Fast transaction speed
the blockchain technology used in digital currency has the characteristics of decentralization. It does not need any centralized organization similar to the clearing center to process data, and the transaction processing speed is faster
3. High anonymity
in addition to the point-to-point transaction without intermediary participation, one of the advantages of digital currency compared with other electronic payment methods is that it supports remote point-to-point payment, and it does not need any trusted third party as intermediary, Both sides of the transaction can complete the transaction in a completely unfamiliar situation without mutual trust, so they have higher anonymity, which can protect the privacy of traders. But at the same time, it also creates convenience for cyber crime, which is easy to be used by money laundering and other criminal activities
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the impact of digital currency:
digital currency is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the blockchain Technology it relies on realizes decentralization and can be used in other fields except digital currency, which is one of the reasons why bitcoin is popular
On the other hand, if digital currency is widely used by the public as a kind of currency, it will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy, financial infrastructure, financial market and financial stabilityThe digital currency of the central bank is DCEP
the name of the digital currency developed by the central bank is DCEP (digital currency electronic payment). DC is digital currency. EP is electronic payment. Payment transmits digital things through a certain way, not paper currency. Therefore, electronic payment itself has the attribute of digital currency
The characteristics of digital currency are: low transaction cost; Fast trading speed; Highly anonymous
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Application of digital currency
I. fast, economic and safe payment and settlement
cross border payment helps RMB internationalization. In 2015, the settlement volume of cross-border payment involving current account is about 8 trillion yuan. To accelerate the internationalization of RMB, cross-border payment and settlement procts and solutions with low cost, high efficiency and low risk are needed
At present, there are still a lot of repetitive human work in the bank's electronic loan process and processing process, and as the basic support of loan issuance, many of the collateral has the situation of false pricing or multiple or even no collateral. We can consider using digital currency to price and track bank collateral:3. Bill finance and supply chain finance
in recent years, various bill market businesses based on commercial bills have grown rapidly, and bill financing procts have become a hot area of Internet financing. However, about 70% of the current bill businesses in China are still paper transactions, Supply chain finance is also highly dependent on labor costs
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network digital currency
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
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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(1) the monetary gold and silver Bureau of the people's Bank of China (PBOC) issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that indivial enterprises falsely use the name of the PBOC to label relevant digital procts as "authorized by the people's Bank of China", or falsely claim that the central bank's digital currency promotion team, in an attempt to deceive the public and take the opportunity to make huge profits
(2) the central bank said that at present, the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
(3) the central bank emphasizes that the legal tender of China is RMB. RMB shall be uniformly printed and issued by the people's Bank of China. No unit or indivial may refuse to pay all public and private debts within the territory of China in RMB. The general public should establish a correct concept of currency, take good care of RMB and jointly maintain the normal circulation order of RMB.