Blockchain has become a national development strategy, what outlets will it usher in?
In yesterday's article, I shared with you that the news that the high-level collectively learns blockchain technology has a relatively direct impact on the investment of our retail investors.
1. The far-reaching impact of high-level learning blockchain technology
In fact, the information revealed by this news has far more impact on the overall development of my country's blockchain industry. It reflects the overall understanding, positioning and planning of the blockchain technology and industry at the highest level. However, these understandings, positioning and planning have fundamentally changed from the situation at 94:00 in 2017.
Specifically, this essential change will not only affect ordinary investors, but will also lead to new trends and trends from the national level down to the corporate level. These new trends and trends will eventually profoundly affect the thinking and layout of blockchain industry participants.
2. Why blockchain technology will rise to the national level
As a participant who is interested in showing his talents in this industry, whether you are an entrepreneur, practitioner or investor, if you cannot understand these upcoming trends and trends, you will make a directional mistake.
I will share my thoughts with you in a series of articles, and I hope that ordinary participants will seize the opportunity to put more effort where it is necessary to achieve twice the result with half the effort, and at the same time avoid various misunderstandings to avoid unnecessary losses .
Seeing this news, many friends were puzzled, why did the country raise the blockchain technology to the national level?
Simply put, the reason why high-level officials raise blockchain technology to the national level is that high-level officials realize that this is a disruptive technology, not only aware of it but also feel it personally.
1. Facebook’s coin issuance is a direct tipping point
Regarding the subversive significance of blockchain technology, related articles and books have been overwhelming. But no matter how much it means, it is just talk on paper, and I think it is Facebook's currency that really makes the high-level realize and feel its strategic significance.
On the one hand, Facebook’s currency issuance can be seen as a move by Facebook to vigorously expand new business formats when the ecological development encounters bottlenecks. On the other hand, it is more shocking because it touches the most sensitive core interests of countries around the world. : Currency issuance rights.
The United States, Facebook's home country, as the hegemon in the global financial field, reacted more violently to this than any other country.
"How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch"? So the U.S. Congress began hearings like a round of battle against Facebook, and the climax of the hearings happened now: Zuckerberg had to go to battle in person, and told members of Congress using my country as an imaginary opponent that if Facebook does not issue coins , China will lead the world in the field of digital currency.
In fact, it has been a few months since the news of Facebook’s currency issuance was first made public. In my opinion, the day when the news was made public actually had the greatest shock and effect on the world. For the first time, it made countries truly realize that the threat that blockchain technology may bring is close at hand.
Prior to this, whether it was BTC, ETH or even the privacy currency Monroe, Zcash, etc., although their trading and operation made countries feel uneasy, the areas they involved were at most illegal transactions or some kind of virtual assets The transaction evades taxation, which makes countries a headache is how to use power to supervise.
The news of Facebook’s currency issuance shocked all countries: there were competitors for their core power.
This becomes a fundamental problem.
Facebook's currency issuance is actually the first anti-monopoly shot fired in the existing centralized legal currency system, provoking the "digital legal currency" war.
Facebook is clearly the "enemy" of central banks. The enemy of Facebook is not an ordinary enemy. Behind it is an ecosystem of nearly 2 billion people. I am afraid that apart from the U.S. dollar among the global legal currencies, there is no second legal currency that can match the population covered by it.
Faced with such a powerful enemy, what should the central bank do?
When we talk about war, we can immediately think of Sun Tzu's Art of War saying that "soldiers are expensive and quick". The enemy has already fired, of course it should be an immediate counterattack.Ironically, however, the vast majority of central banks have only made a lot of noise about such a major event, expressing strong concerns verbally, with little concrete action. Only the United States and China have truly implemented this concern into concrete actions.
But the United States and China have followed very different paths.
The United States quickly launched an investigation and hearing on Facebook’s currency issuance, with only one essential purpose: if you cannot guarantee that you are 100% controlled, don’t try to do it.
After that, my country quickly proposed specific plans and details for the digital renminbi, and the advancement of the digital renminbi began to accelerate.
It was this incident that made our country's high-level leaders truly aware of and feel that the disruptive events that blockchain technology is about to bring happened so quickly and happened around them.
Without the issue of Facebook issuing coins, talking about how those blockchain technologies affect food traceability, how to ensure data security, and how to improve efficiency in government affairs are far from touching the core interests, and basically can only be regarded as painless. itchy areas.
2. The digital renminbi based on blockchain technology will help the "Belt and Road"
In addition, there is another aspect: that is, the advancement of the digital renminbi will greatly promote the renminbi to cooperate with the "Belt and Road" policy to become an international reserve currency.
"One Belt, One Road" is the policy and route proposed by the General Secretary that will affect my country's global strategy in the next few decades. The internationalization of RMB will be the core link of the Belt and Road policy.
Although Chinese residents can now use Alipay and WeChat for overseas consumption, Alipay and WeChat are always scratching the surface and cannot directly connect my country's financial system to other countries.
Once the digital renminbi system is rolled out, electronic payments can be used to directly connect the digital renminbi system to other countries.
This is exactly what Facebook dreams of. Of course, Facebook uses a tall moral card to cover up this real purpose: to help people in many backward areas without banks around the world, and to make financial inclusion accessible to the public.
However, we cannot just be fooled by this moral card, because without the support of commercial interests, the moral card cannot be played.
Therefore, the competition of digital legal currency supported by blockchain technology is not only a game in the commercial field, but also a game at the level of national interests.
No, the officials of the Federal Reserve have also begun to talk about the launch of the digital dollar in recent days. This is by no means a coincidence, but the beginning of a series of dramatic changes.
In this game of national interests, how can it be possible not to consider the research and development of blockchain technology at the national level?
3. The feast of the digital age will kick off
Once this game starts, I boldly predict that the next major progress in my country will be the acceleration of the digital renminbi work, and the implementation of the digital renminbi will not be too far away.
When ordinary people use digital renminbi in their daily lives, it will be accompanied by a series of new concepts in the digital age such as "digital assets" and "digital wealth". And with these new concepts comes the feast of the digital age. And will Bitcoin, the "King of Digital Assets", be absent from this feast?
