Will digital currency reduce currency circulation
The digital RMB red envelope of 10 million yuan issued by Shenzhen city has brought the development of e-money back to the people's vision
in fact, since April 2020, small-scale pilot projects of digital RMB have been carried out in Shenzhen, Cheng, Suzhou and xiong'an, and the pilot scale will be expanded to 28 provinces and cities in August 2020
as a socially recognized "super outlet", in addition to the high investment of digital currency related enterprises, its impact on the financial market is also of great research value
Policy evolution of the development of digital RMBas early as 2014, the central bank has concted research layout on digital RMB, and discussed the development framework of digital RMB with major international financial institutions and research institutions in the 2016 digital currency seminar
after six years of development, China has initially developed the "pbctfp blockchain platform" and continuously promoted the pilot activities of digital RMB. It can be predicted that as today's technology and policy outlet, digital RMB will have excellent development prospects and extremely fast development speed in the next few years
Figure 1: Policy Evolution of digital RMB
with the improvement of China's national strength, digital RMB provides an opportunity to establish a "new system of RMB cross border settlement", which can promote RMB payment activities around the world and realize the internationalization of RMB
the well-known digital currencies in the currency circle include bitcoin, Ruitai coin, Laite coin, doggy coin, etc.
why
let's take a look at the current definition of DCEP
Digital legal tender
in addition to being different from legal paper money in carrier, it has the same function as paper money: value scale, circulation means, payment means and value storage
this is also the function of paper money
the issuance of DCEP is based on 100% reserve and will circulate with cash currency, that is, M0 issuance
although the central bank's digital currency was slowly launched after the rise of blockchain technology, it is not pure blockchain technology, but only uses some technologies related to blockchain
we all know that the commercial application of block chain technology still faces many problems, such as concurrency, data storage and so on
a country with a large population like ours, if we use blockchain technology in a strict sense, it will not be able to carry it at present<
Wanxiang blockchain analysis:
from the information disclosed by the people's Bank of China, DC / EP does not use the real blockchain like Libra
although digital currency is not a token in the blockchain, it is similar to the token in the blockchain in the key features of non double flower, anonymity, unforgeability, security, transitivity, separability and programmability
therefore, DC / EP still belongs to token paradigm rather than account paradigm
the central bank is responsible for the maintenance of the DC / EP issuance registration subsystem, which is centralized and does not need to run consensus algorithm, so it will not be subject to the performance bottleneck of the blockchain
in DC / EP, blockchain is used to confirm the right registration of digital currency and plays an auxiliary role
each country's base currency issuance is increasing every year
therefore, the central bank's digital currency improves the bearing property of money. Paper money is naturally suitable for the atomic world, and digital currency is more suitable for the consumption scenarios in the bit world
the supply is definitely the same as that of the previous monetary system, increasing every year.