Is China about to launch its own cryptocurrency?

How to buy DCEP? Currently DCEP is only available to other banks working with the People’s Bank of China . This will eventually open up to the general public in 2020. There are currently no cryptocurrency exchanges that trade DCEP.

Digital currencies use blockchain as well , but they operate with a centralised authority and require user identification. The DCEP features “controllable anonymity” that is tracked and requires users to download and register to an app on their smartphone.8 Eyl 2021

The PBOC plans an official launch of the digital yuan as soon as 2022 , following testing at the Winter Olympics. China plans to revise its laws to add it as legal tender and ban private-sector issuance of digital currencies, whose proliferation poses an oversight challenge for regulators.