{"id":57109,"date":"2021-06-03T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57109"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:01:14","slug":"beijing-to-disperse-6-million-in-digital-yuan-in-a-red-envelope-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=57109","title":{"rendered":"Beijing to Disperse $6 Million in Digital Yuan in a Red Envelope Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Beijing to Disperse $6 Million in Digital Yuan in a Red Envelope Lottery\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6mill.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s central bank digital currency (CBDC) continues to gain further ground as the Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau revealed 40 million worth of the country\u2019s digital yuan ($6.3 million) will be distributed to Chinese citizens. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Beijing and China\u2019s Central Bank Launches Digital Yuan Lottery<\/h2>\n<p>The People\u2019s Bank of China (PBoC) and Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau have <a href=\"http:\/\/jrj.beijing.gov.cn\/jrgzdt\/202106\/t20210601_2403630.html\">announced<\/a> a new digital yuan test for local residents. Bitcoin.com News has <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/digital-yuan-giveaway-10-million-central-bank-digital-currency\/\">reported<\/a> on China\u2019s last CBDC red envelope test in the past, as the central bank has dispersed millions in digital yuan for testing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-463538\" title=\"Beijing to Disperse $6 Million in Digital Yuan in a Red Envelope Lottery\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny.jpg\" alt=\"Beijing to Disperse $6 Million in Digital Yuan in a Red Envelope Lottery\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ecny-760x428.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\"><\/p>\n<p>Now Beijing plans to disperse $6.3 million worth of the CBDC to citizens by giving out 200,000 digital red envelopes with 200 digital yuan each. As usual, residents can spend the digital yuan at merchants that accept the CBDC like the popular marketplace Jd.com. Residents who want to get some of the red envelopes must enter a lottery system via the Bank of China or Commercial Bank of China\u2019s mobile applications.<\/p>\n<p>News of the digital yuan launch getting closer and closer continues as a myriad of firms such as Tencent, Alibaba, Ant, Mastercard, and Jd.com have been <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/digital-yuan-launch-draws-near-jd-com-employees-paid-in-e-cny-tencent-ant-mastercard-engage-with-pboc\/\">testing<\/a> China\u2019s CBDC. The deadline for citizens to register for China\u2019s latest red envelope testing is June 7.<\/p>\n<p><!-- growjs zone placement 31 --> <ins> <ins class=\"growjs-placement\"><\/ins> <\/ins> <!-- end of growjs zone placement --> <\/p>\n<p>However, despite the number of major companies helping and the last red envelope distribution, a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/digital-yuan-trial-hotspot-not-seeing-wide-acceptance-claims-report\/\">report notes<\/a> residents in Shenzhen are concerned about privacy. Moreover, because of the surveillance concerns, Shenzhen citizens are showing little interest in the CBDC.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s digital yuan smart card will <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/chinas-digital-yuan-smart-card-to-feature-biometrics-and-fingerprint-scanning\/\">reportedly<\/a> feature biometrics and fingerprint scanning. The PBoC plans to also disperse the digital yuan at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Besides Beijing and Shenzhen, the PBoC-developed digital yuan has also been tested in Changsha, Suzhou, and Chengdu.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What do you think about Beijing dispersing $6.3 million in digital yuan? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s central bank digital currency (CBDC) continues to gain further ground as the Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau revealed 40 million worth of the country\u2019s digital yuan ($6.3 million) will be distributed to Chinese citizens. Beijing and China\u2019s Central Bank Launches Digital Yuan Lottery The People\u2019s Bank of China (PBoC) and Beijing Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}