The latest news of central bank's digital currency in April

1. Yao Qian, head of the preparatory group of the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank, said that the digital currency issued by the central bank is mainly to replace physical cash, rece the cost of issuance and circulation of traditional paper money, and improve the convenience and transparency of economic transactions
Huang Zhen, director of the Institute of financial law of Central University of Finance and economics, said that digital currency mainly refers to the form of currency and will not cause currency shrinkage. The issuing scale of money is still controlled by the central bank, while the issue of paper money or digital money is just a change of form< In addition, Huang Zhen mentioned that the issue of digital currency is still in the stage of discussion, which is an innovative mechanism of currency value symbol, and many problems are still under study. However, in practice, people are more and more inclined to use e-banking and e-payment rather than carrying notes. Under this trend, the number of banknotes in circulation in the future may decrease
the central bank's issuing of digital currency is still inspired by encrypted digital currencies such as bitcoin and lettercoin, and so is the token of European crowdfunding platform. The digital currency issued by the central bank has monetary attributes, while the token of European crowdfunding platform can only be a kind of asset certificate, a niche proct.

2. It is very clear in the speech of the central bank that the digital currency is M0. What is M0? M0 is cash. We speculate that the basic framework for the central bank to issue digital currency in the future should be a two-tier structure. The core is the database of the central bank, and the periphery is the blockchain of different instries, regions and third parties. Why? Only by using a decentralized system in the second layer can you ensure that the money is controlled by the users themselves and that the digital currency really becomes M0

we speculate that once the central bank issues digital currency in the future, the periphery of the structure must be a decentralized system. At present, blockchain is the best choice

when talking about digital currency, the central bank also mentioned another concept, which is called programmable currency. How to understand? For the computer, it has a certain internal self-control function. Take the early object-oriented language as an example, it requires at least two functions, one is the constructor, the other is the destructor. You have to solve the problem of its creation as well as its extinction

through programming, the central bank can control the whole life cycle of money creation, circulation and withdrawal

in the absence of digital currency and programmable currency, the currency issued by the central bank circulates freely in the society. How to return to the cage in the end? One is the return of derivative currency of commercial banks, the other is the return of basic currency of central bank. The former is controlled by the central bank through deposit reserve and other policies, while the latter is controlled by the tax system. If we go up to programmable digital currency in the future, the central bank will have much more control. Even in circulation, control can be increased. That's why central banks are very interested in blockchain technology.

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On A-share, the leading stock of digital currency concept is Hang Seng electronics, with the stock code of 600570

The main business of Hang Seng Electronics Co., Ltd. is to provide domestic financial institutions with software procts and services as well as financial data business, and to provide wealth management tools for indivial investors

4. Digital currency is a kind of legal encrypted digital currency, which is not only a payment tool but also a currency. It is essentially different from Alipay and WeChat payment. Alipay, WeChat payment and mobile phone banks are all electronic money, not digital money. These are all payment methods based on electronic accounts, which are in essence just a process of informatization of legal currency, not digital currency in a strict sense
moreover, it is totally different from q-coin and bitcoin. Commonly known as q-coin and bitcoin, these belong to virtual currency. Compared with digital currency, the most fundamental difference lies in the difference of issuers

virtual currency is the electronization of illegal currency. The issuer is not the central bank, and it can only circulate in a specific virtual environment, such as Tencent Q coin and other game coins; Digital currency can be used for real goods and services transactions, but only the digital currency issued by the state is legal digital currency, bitcoin is illegal digital currency

5. The only value that digital currency trading system brings us is that we can use digital currency to exchange legal currency. After all, digital currency is not legal currency and it is not mandatory. Digital currency is still a niche proct. The global recognition of digital currency is not high, especially for ordinary people
however, some of the so-called digital currency systems are deceptive in themselves. Authentic digital currency generally refers to bitcoin, Leyte currency, decent and other digital cryptocurrency.

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The central bank's digital currency is legal tender, while cloud flash payment is only a payment method. In other words, the central bank's digital currency does not conflict with cloud flash payment. The digital currency issued by the central bank is unlikely to be the next cloud flash payment because of the different nature of the two

cloud flash payment is just a transit agency, which is the medium of currency circulation on the network. The digital currency to be released by the central bank is the new RMB, which is money itself, with legal value and mandatory value. For example, bitcoin is a kind of network currency, but that way is relatively wild. Now we will have an official network currency

cloud flash payment is a transfer of RMB transactions, but it does not have legal value or mandatory. The new digital currency launched by the central bank is a kind of currency that exists on the computer. It belongs to money itself, but it is different from the traditional paper money and can circulate on the network

although the name of digital currency is very bluffing, for many ordinary people, it is just another payment system, so it is not sure whether it can really bring down cloud flash payment. The two should coexist in parallel and each has its own advantages. For the common people, safety and convenience are the best