Huawei has announced that its new range of smartphones will support hardware wallets for the digital yuan. In a post uploaded to its Weibo page, the tech giant claimed that the Mate 40 is the first device to support China’s upcoming digital currency.
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China's shot across the bow of its biggest digital payments allies/competitors (Photo: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)Launching its own digital currency, China take aim at digital payment titans
The People’s Bank of China has called for an anti-trust investigation of Alipay and WeChat Pay, which together control 94% of the market. Is the forthcoming digital yuan responsible?
China is creating a digital currency that can be used for day-to-day payments. Now a new report claims the People’s Bank of China is trying to initiate an anti-trust investigation against the two firms that dominate this space: Alipay and WeChat Pay.
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China testing digital yuan in four cities
European and Asian countries have been scrambling to catch up in the race for a digital currency, even as the U.S. drags its heels; annoucement suggests no 2022 Winter Olympics roll-out
The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said in an April 17 release that its prototype, central bank-issued digital yuan is being put through its paces in Shenzhen, Chengdu, Suzhou, and Xiong’an, which lies about 60 miles from Beijing. It will also be tested at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Rationing Privacy: ECB suggests digital currency ‘anonymity vouchers’
An EU-issued central bank digital currency could provide an allowance of tokens good for keeping Big Brother from looking at your spending
Planning to score some cocaine before meeting your girlfriend at a hotel? Neither the cops nor your wife will be any the wiser if you use some of the “anonymity vouchers” Europe’s central bank just proposed building into an e-euro. It’s kind of like trying to sneak across a room unseen by screaming, “nobody look at me!”
