Major tech and commerce firms have been instrumental in helping China’s central bank develop the digital yuan. Major Chinese technology and commerce firms are starting to open up regarding their involvement in developing the digital yuan. Ant Group and Tencent Holdings revealed the extent of their collaboration with the People’s Bank of China in developing…
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Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has upped its support for the country’s central bank digital currency. JD.com has been using China’s Digital Currency Electronic Payment, or DCEP, system to pay the salaries of some employees since January. The e-commerce firm revealed the news on Sunday while announcing its participation in the one-year DCEP trial show at the…
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Leading Chinese banks are promoting the digital yuan over Alipay and WeChat Pay for an upcoming shopping festival in China. Some of China’s largest state banks are actively promoting the digital yuan as a superior means of payment to the country’s two leading payment providers, Alipay and WeChat Pay. In an April 26 report, Reuters revealed…
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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of digitalization has become central to achieving sustainability and lessening climate change. The virtual 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum was jointly hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the Asia Pacific Adaptation Network with the theme “Enabling Resilience for All: The Critical Decade to Scale-up…
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Macau’s casino junket operators have already been on the rocks during the coronavirus pandemic, and some fear that they could be “faded out” following the introduction of a fully traceable digital yuan. Beijing’s bid to better control money laundering and illicit transactions through a fully traceable central bank digital currency could pose a threat to the…
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It’s not entirely clear when Terence Zeng assumed his leadership role, though the appointment appears to have been recent. Following the high-profile appointment of Brian Brooks to CEO of Binance.US, it has come to light that the Malta-based parent company has reshuffled its executive leadership by appointing Terence Zeng as head of Greater China. Zeng…
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“If the U.S. stopped all the U.S. miners, Kazakstan stopped all the miners there — that kind of shuts down 80% to 90% of the hash rate pretty quickly,” said Curtis Spencer. Electric Capital co-founder and partner Curtis Spencer implied that the Bitcoin network may owe its continued existence to the grace of world governments. …
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China wants to allow foreign athletes and visitors to use the county’s digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. China’s central bank is looking to enable foreign athletes and visitors to use the country’s digital currency during the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022, according to a top central bank official. Li Bo, deputy…
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The central bank official said stablecoins issued by private companies may require “stronger regulatory rules” than Bitcoin. Li Bo, recently appointed deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, or PBoC, reportedly spoke on the benefits of crypto as an investment tool while highlighting regulatory uncertainty in the country surrounding digital assets. According to Chinese…
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Coinbase and cryptocurrencies viewed cynically on Chinese social media, and news of a large mining GPU smuggling bust in Hong Kong. It was a relatively quiet week in China’s blockchain space as events were overshadowed by the surge in the BTC price and the Coinbase direct listing in the U.S. Many locals reacted with surprise…
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