Why Cities Will Soon Chose Digital Currency Over Fiat Money
Over the last 100 years, we have seen all innovation happen in cities. Cities are where people meet and exchange ideas, and opportunities in business emerge. By 2050, it’s estimated almost 70% of the world population will be living in cities, more than double in 100 years. In absolute numbers, that is a growth of 850 million to 6.3 billion urbanites. In 15 years we will have 41 'megacities' (cities with populations of more than 10 million), a fourfold increase since 1990. With all the power of growth and influence emanating from cities and not from farms and villages, our model of 'one....
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Most people don't even realize that money and currency are not the same thing. Although, people tend to see the similarities between each other, most of the times, they completely forget its differences. Currency was invented to replace Gold as an independent, natural medium of exchange and it has been maintained by governments. Currency has no limited supply and governments have been using this key feature to take value out from thin air. On the other hand, money came before currency. By definition, currency is inflationary and tends to lose value. The difference between currency and....
Authorities in two Chinese cities are promoting the digital yuan as a payment method in the public transportation system. Commuters on the subway of Ningbo and those taking the bus in Guangzhou will be able to purchase their tickets using the state-issued digital currency. Residents and Visitors of Another 2 Chinese Cities to Pay Transit Fares With Digital Yuan Ningbo Rail Transit, the operator of the subway system in the city of Ningbo in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang, has launched payments in digital yuan, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the People’s....
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has added more cities to test its digital currency. According to the latest official data, the digital yuan has more than 261 million users.
PBOC Adds More Cities to Test Its CBDC
The Chinese central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), said Saturday that it is adding more pilot cities to test its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan (e-CNY).
The new pilot cities are Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, and six cities in the Zhejiang province that will host the 2022....
In what should be the first of many over the coming years, Ecuador will soon begin trials with the world's first national digital currency. They are the first nation to agree officially to implement it's own digital currency as a state-supported national system of finance. The Central Bank of Ecuador has set up a trial version to begin later this month, and continue through mid-November 15th. Also read: Ecuador's Centralized National Digital Currency. Ecuador Trials the World's First National Digital Currency. This is an evolving story CryptoCoinsNews has been watching for months, as....
According to a recent poll, 14% of Russians think crypto will replace fiat in 10 years, while 39% think it's impossible to give up cash. New research from one of the top 10 major banks in Russia, Otkritie Bank, has found that 14% of Russians think crypto will replace fiat in 10 years. According to Russian publication Nord News, the survey was conducted between April 12 and April 16, with a sample base of 1000 Russians aged between 18 to 65 who live in cities with a population of over 100,000. The results varied between regions, with respondents from the Northwest having the least faith in....