The Central Bank of my country announced the launch of its own legal digital currency DC/EP on May 8, 2020, and it is conducting trials in many cities across the country. The European Central Bank (ECB) is expected to accelerate research on the digital euro in the next few months and launch the digital euro as soon as possible.

The EU takes the first step in the “digital euro”

The European Union has always been more cautious about digital currencies. This is due to the protection of the stability of the euro and European financial considerations. However, as some countries have successively launched the process of launching sovereign digital currencies, including some well-known companies have also launched digital currencies, the EU cannot turn a blind eye.

While cautious, the EU is also preparing for the advent of the digital currency era. In 2018, the European Union promulgated the “Fifth Edition of the Anti-Money Laundering Order”. In this decree, the EU classifies cryptocurrency business and banking, payment processing, gaming and other services into the same legal category, which in fact provides protection for cryptocurrency business.

According to the previous agreement reached by the EU finance ministers, when the risk of digital currency has not been completely eradicated, or the relevant legal and supervisory framework has not been established, the EU will eliminate the use of private digital currencies, and member states shall not include the introduction of encrypted currencies. Its laws and regulations. Although Europe is not as active as the United States and China in the era of digital economy, as a highly developed capital-intensive region, Europeans’ consumption, savings, and investment behaviors are becoming more and more digital, and the euro’s trust in the member states is also based on this. Starting point, the European Central Bank has drawn a rough blueprint for the future “digital euro”.

In October 2020, the European Central Bank officially issued a document introducing the European Union’s plan to develop digital currencies. The European Central Bank believes that no matter which technology the “digital euro” uses, it must be strictly distinguished from encrypted currencies. The EU’s vision for the “digital euro” is to be safe, efficient, convenient, and legally compliant, while at the same time building a high degree of trust among EU citizens.

The digital euro may suck up 8% of deposits in eurozone banks

According to previous news, the European Central Bank (ECB) will speed up the study of the digital euro in the next few months. Although there are still a few years before the final launch, it has not neglected the impact of the launch of the digital euro.

Whether the introduction of a digital sovereign currency will eat into the funds in the current commercial bank accounts is something that more than 90% of the world’s central banks that are studying digital currencies need to consider. For the European Union, the member states cannot be ignored.

Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that all euro zone citizens over 15 years old will transfer 3,000 euros ($3,637) to a “digital wallet” controlled by the European Central Bank. This estimate is based on a “bear market” scenario.

The digital euro may suck up 8% of customer deposits in euro zone banks, especially for small countries such as Estonia, Slovakia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which will be more than 8%. In theory, this could reduce total deposits in the Eurozone by 873 billion Euros (close to 8%).

Digital euro can provide better privacy protection

Although the European Central Bank has a lot of concerns about all kinds of digital currencies, in terms of protecting privacy, Fabio Panetta, a member of the ECB’s executive board, believes that the digital euro will play a positive role and can also protect the euro zone from the “threat” of cryptocurrencies. Officials of the European Central Bank believe that if the European Central Bank participates in digital payments, it will pay more attention to privacy protection than private companies. Compared with private companies that collect large amounts of data from users to satisfy their business interests, the European Central Bank will not store, manage, and user data. Involving commercial interests. It is reported that the European Central Bank has conducted a small offline payment experiment before. Transfers of tens of euros or even hundreds of euros can be completed through Bluetooth between devices. There will be no payment except in the wallets of the payer and the payee. data record. There is no doubt that payment privacy is one of the main concerns when people use digital currencies, and the European Central Bank is trying to show everyone that it has the ability to separate identity information from payment information. If everything goes smoothly, it is expected that the digital euro will circulate on a large scale in the euro area around 2025

Fight against cryptocurrencies China closes data centers

As of: 06/22/2021 8:26 am

Virtual means of payment like Bitcoin are a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. That is why it is vehemently against it: Now data centers have been switched off in several parts of the country.

From Steffen Wurzel, ARD studio Shanghai

The Chinese government continues to vehemently oppose everything that has to do with Bitcoin. Banks and financial service providers were again asked not to offer any more services that have to do with crypto payment methods. One wants to preserve the stability and the security of the financial market and protect the assets and property of the population, said the state central bank of China.

China had banned trading in crypto-currency such as Bitcoin as early as 2017, as the first large country in the world. The so-called mining, however, i.e. the electronic generation of Bitcoins and Co with huge computer networks, was still tolerated by the Chinese authorities. The government has only been systematically taking action against decentralized and digital means of payment for around six weeks. Huge data centers were shut down in several parts of the country. Most recently, around two thirds of all new Bitcoins worldwide were generated with computers in China. This share will now decrease rapidly and significantly, say analysts.

Concept of bitcoin contradicts politics

Monetary and currency policy are centrally controlled in China. The central bank is directly under the communist leadership. The Chinese currency, renminbi or yuan, is not freely convertible. The decentralized and open concept of Bitcoin contradicts this policy and is therefore rejected by the Chinese government. At the same time, the government is working on its own digital currency, which, however, has almost nothing to do with Bitcoin.

The stricter action taken by the Chinese authorities against crypto-currency has helped Bitcoin to lose around half of its value in the past two months. The Bitcoin price is still a good three times as high as a year ago

Be wary when Vietnamese artists openly promote virtual currency The incident is said to have originated on May 11, when a series of worthless, anonymous coins were “inflated” thanks to a status line of US billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. Tech billionaire, the boss of Facebook posted a photo of two goats. It is worth noting that the caption about the goat name Max and Bitcoin has made the virtual currency investment community extremely excited. Cryptocurrency investors immediately thought that the Facebook boss was implicitly showing special interest in the current Bitcoin virtual currency. By the afternoon of the same day, the virtual currency fever began to spread rapidly in Vietnam when many Vietnamese artists posted identical statuses, alluding to this virtual currency fever.
A series of names such as Ngoc Trinh, Kieu Minh Tuan, Le Duong Bao Lam, Kha Nhu … were involved in posting an advertisement for virtual currency. In the top line, the idea is just to mention the potential of some virtual currencies (cryptocurrency, digital currency, aka coin) whose origin is related to Meme Doge (animated image of the image) a dog), in the middle is the FXT Token that makes the online community “wake up”. This virtual currency is said to be related to the Lion multi-level virtual currency project, which has signs of fraud. Investing in FXT Token is promised daily profit, which can be up to 2-3 times the capital, that’s why many people turn their eyes to this project. However, internationally, this virtual currency has been warned that it has a multi-level fraud factor, can only be listed on small exchanges, and is considered a “junk coin”.
The name FXT Token has been warned by some mainstream media in Vietnam about signs of fraud. This incident has been warned by the Da Nang City Police since the beginning of February 2021. Accordingly, Lion Group’s activities do not comply with the law, investors who lose money will not be protected by law.
About a week ago, press agencies started to report on the perversion and fraud of Lion Group. A few days ago, Lion Group’s multi-level exchange disabled participants’ ability to withdraw money. That is, FXT buyers are now holding onto a pile of illiquid, worthless virtual currency.

In Vietnam, the State Bank has repeatedly issued recommendations to organizations and individuals not to invest, hold and perform transactions related to virtual currencies.
Owning, buying, selling, and using virtual currencies as an asset has many potential risks for people and is not protected by law. Currently, the State Bank of Vietnam does not accept virtual currencies as currency as well as legal means of payment in Vietnam.
Meanwhile, the lawyers acknowledged that it is a violation to publicly advertise goods that are not allowed by law in Vietnam. Artists who openly promote cryptocurrencies should be punished for administrative violations. At the same time, the cultural and information management agency must also issue a warning because these are the people who influence the public, when advertising any service or goods, they must find out the origin.

It is impossible for money to turn a blind eye to false advertising, affecting many other people, not to mention aiding scammers. Because artists and celebrities on social networks have a lot of followers and followers, their behavior is often considered by the public as a measure, even a standard, so it is easy to cause mass effect. .