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Japanese Government Eyes Making Its Own Crypto, Rushing to Keep up With China

Fri, 01/24/2020 - 19:23
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Yuri Molchan
Lawmakers from the ruling party in the Japanese government plan to suggest that Japan should release its own state-backed crypto
Japanese Government Eyes Making Its Own Crypto, Rushing to Keep up With China
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After Facebook announced its plans to release Libra, China began working harder on its state-backed cryptocurrency project known as the DCEP (digital currency electronic payment) and in the fall of last year announced that it would be released in the near future.

Currently, while several states are toying with the idea of launching their own crypto, China stands closest to actually releasing a digital version of the yuan.

Now, Reuters reports, Japan has started moving in the same direction.

A proposal to issue its own crypto

The news agency has reported that lawmakers from the ruling party in the Japanese government are about to present a proposal that Japan should issue its own CBDC (central bank digital currency) – a digital version of the yen.

Reuters got this information from the parliamentary vice minister of foreign affairs, Norihiro Nakayama. He said:

“The first step would be to look into the idea of issuing a digital yen. China is moving toward issuing digital yuan, so we’d like to propose measures to counter such attempts.”

Japan unlikely to issue digital currency anytime soon

Since certain technical and legal issues are likely to prevent Japan from issuing digital yen in the near future, the local central bank has teamed with several other banks to issue a digital currency together when the time is right.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.