There will be no counting the disruption.
So is China readying its own Bitcoin?
Banish the thought.
- Andy Mukherjee
- Bloomberg
It’s far bigger than that.
Yes, just like any other cryptocurrency — or for that matter, cigarettes in prisoners-of-war camps — the upcoming digital yuan will be “tokenized” money.
But the similarity ends there.
The crypto yuan, which may be on offer as soon as 2020, will be fully backed by the central bank of the world’s second-largest economy, drawing its value from the…