Union vote and digital currency
1. The concept range is different. bitcoin is a kind of digital currency, and the concept of digital currency covers bitcoin
However, some digital currencies have independent issuers The biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total quantity of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity. The monetary system used to have no more than 10.5 million in four years, after which the total number will be permanently limited to 21 milliondigital currency is abbreviated as digiccy, which is the abbreviation of "digital currency" in English. It is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy. Bitcoin is a digital currency
digital currency is different from the virtual currency in the virtual world, because it can be used for real goods and services transactions, not limited to online games. The early digital currency (digital gold currency) is a form of electronic currency named after the weight of gold
today's digital currencies, such as bitcoin, lettercoin and ppcoin, are electronic currencies created, issued and circulated by means of check sum cryptography. It is characterized by the use of P2P peer-to-peer network technology to issue, manage and circulate currency. In theory, it avoids bureaucratic examination and approval, so that everyone has the right to issue currency
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illegal digital currency
in recent years, "virtual currency" represented by bitcoin, Ethernet currency and Leyte currency has been traded centrally on some Internet platforms. With the help of financial technology, the price of these "currencies" has graally spread to investment, financing and other financial fields, which has aroused wide attention from all walks of life
not long ago, the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions jointly issued the announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which clearly regulated the relevant behaviors. Experts pointed out that "virtual currency" is not legal tender (legal currency) issued by monetary authorities, but a specific virtual commodity in essence
therefore, it is undoubtedly a great legal and economic risk to think that "virtual currency" has or will have the nature of legal tender and to carry out speculation, network fund-raising, lending and financing
The 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
many partners who are more interested in investment and financial management may also hear about some digital currencies such as blockchain in their daily life, and there are various subdivisions for these blockchains for example, the blockchain model with or without currency or some data or digital currency will have different performance. From the current point of view, whether some methods of raising some funds through initial issuance are legal or not, such behavior has always existed with the development of blockchain. Moreover, there are no relevant regulations in the law, so there are no clear provisions on whether this kind of behavior is legal or not
we know some concepts of blockchain, but most of them are words like decentralization or leverage. However, the whole operation mode of non currency blockchain is inconsistent with these definitions in principle . Therefore, when you hear about some non currency blockchain, you will feel that this mode is against the law or against the traditional financial investment. There is a great difference between this kind of non currency blockchain and the traditional blockchain, so it can not be called a real blockchain
it will be more convenient to pay with digital currency, and it will be more secure for the central bank recently, the Shenzhen municipal government and the Central Bank jointly launched a pilot activity of digital currency. This activity is funded and sponsored by the Luohu District government. This activity will issue digital RMB with a face value of 200 yuan to 50000 Shenzhen citizens, with a total amount of 10 million yuan. These 50000 people will be drawn out in the form of lottery. After winning, they can download the digital currency app and bind it with their mobile phone numbers, It's ready to use. The use scenario is 3389 merchants in Luohu District. Just like mobile payment, you can scan the code directly. Moreover, the design of the digital currency is similar to that of the banknote, with the national emblem and the style of the people's Bank of China on the front
some economists also said that the advantage of digital currency is that its transactions and transfers all have zero cost. For example, some mobile payments, withdrawals and transfers may need some handling charges, but if it is a digital currency, there is no concept of handling charges. With the digitalization of currency, all transactions have zero cost, It is a good thing for enterprises and users