Last Friday, China’s official newspaper People’s Daily released an article Bitcoin, a New Form of Digital Gold by Yang Wang. And in an interview, Yang says that after talking with people from the central bank, he believes that the government will define btc as commodity or futures. It is in conflict with the RMB system. And when the PBOC released its own digital currency, most cryptocurrencies would be obsoleted and bitcoin or blockchain startups will move to mobile payment.
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