China’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is fast moving towards the take-off.

For the first time since the project was launched more than 7 years ago, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has issued Worksheet (white paper) Which includes the most important advance of the digital yuan or Chinese electronic yuan CBDC.

According to the white paper, the Digital Yuan project began as a response to the proliferation of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in a new global context in which the economy is slowly becoming digitized.

Two years ago, the use of cash declined in China.

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People are starting to pay for goods and services via mobile payments, as evidenced by a survey conducted by China’s central bank.

As 46% of survey respondents did not use cash with digital and mobile payments accounting for more than half of the transactions made during this period.

In addition to the apparent change in Chinese citizens’ payment habits and preferences, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) stated that cash management is taking resources that could have been used in other sectors.

Despite recognizing the potential of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the Chinese government views these digital assets as speculative tools, tools to gain secrecy in suspicious transactions, and the backbone of illegal activities.

Thus, they believe that Bitcoin, Ethereum and others lack intrinsic value and cannot be used as currencies.

Therefore, the Chinese central bank argued that it had initiated the e-CNY digital yuan project to launch a digital version of fiat currency operated by authorized operators.

This CBDC coin will act as a hybrid payment instrument with legal tender mode.

In this sense, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) explained that its digital Chinese yuan would have the basic functions of money to which the basic principles of money of unit of account, medium of exchange, and store of value would apply.

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The issuance and circulation of the digital yuan “e-CNY” will be identical to the physical renminbi, while the value of the former is converted into digital form.

The digital yuan “e-CNY” is governed by the central bank, backed by sovereign credit.

In addition, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) recently revealed some key features of the digital currencies that it will issue, such as smart contracts and private transactions, and explained that the digital currency will coexist with the fiat yuan.

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Programmable fiat or potential financial revolution in China – People’s Bank of China publishes first digital white paper on RMB/CNY

– Sino Global Capital (sinoglobalcap) July 16, 2021

The impact of smart contracts on the digital yuan currency:

Expanding on these key features, the Chinese financial institution said that its digital currencies will be able to carry out automatic payment transactions.

Similar to supporting smart contracts on a private blockchain.

The e-CNY digital yuan can perform transactions when certain conditions are met.

In this way, China seeks to initiate new business models and foster innovation in the future.

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In terms of privacy, the digital yuan will have a controllable anonymity, and users will be able to hide part of their data from others, but the PBoC will be fully supervised by users.

According to the white paper, the digital yuan has successfully completed its top-level design, functionality development, and overall system testing.

As a result, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) was able to move into the testing phase of the system.

An official launch date for the e-CNY digital yuan will be announced at a later time.

The Chinese central bank still needs to determine the level of transaction privacy, but many are speculating that CBDCs could be a big presence at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

China’s digital currency has come under heavy criticism.

Many fear the use of electronic currency in increasing control over the country’s population and gaining more control over their financial independence.

Primitive Crypto co-founder Dovi Wan believes that the launch of the digital yuan, or e-CNY, will be the beginning of a struggle between two poles.

The issuance of the digital white paper of the renminbi also known as DCEP…

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– Dovey “Rug The Fiat” Wan🪐🦖 (DoveyWan) July 16, 2021

One of these poles can be represented by Bitcoin holders and the other by e-CNY users.

Meaning that the battle will be between absolute freedom (Bitcoin) and controlled and controlled uses from higher sides (Digital Yuan).

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