Several major Chinese banks are promoting the use of digital yuan over local payment firms like Alipay and WeChat Pay ahead of the upcoming shopping
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Chinese online retail giant JD.com adopts digital yuan for salary payments
Chinese e-commerce company JD.com has upped its support for the country’s central bank digital currency.
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Top Chinese banks promote CBDC over local payment firms for shopping festival
Leading Chinese banks are promoting the digital yuan over Alipay and WeChat Pay for an upcoming shopping festival in China.
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Bitcoin’s global hashrate dropped ten days ago following a coal mine accident that caused significant grid blackouts in Xinjiang, China. While initial estimates had shown
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Asia-Pacific’s solarized digitalization agenda in pandemic times
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of digitalization has become central to achieving sustainability and lessening climate change.
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More and more national banks are announcing their intent to begin research on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in a month where cryptocurrencies have risen
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