Recently, China Securities Journal has just interviewed Li Wei, who is the director of technical department of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), on a few topics such as the risk of blockchain application on the bank, and whether the PBOC will exploit blockchain in future.
According to the record of this interview, Li Wei says that PBOC is setting up Blockchain Research Institution, whereas the blockchain technology and several mainstream cryptocurrecies will be investigated and studied. Considering one "Cryptocurrency Risk Report" that was released by the China government a few days ago,
Bitshares, as the first and the most successful pure financial blockchain application, is on the list and maybe of the most interested according to the following table.
As we can see, the bitshares 0.9.x wallet, bitshares 2.0 wallet, bitshares Ui are studied. Other peers include bitcoin, ethereum, doge, LTC, etc..
According to Li Wei, in recent years, the technology of block chain has been paid close attention by domestic and foreign financial industry. Some central banks, commercial banks and Internet enterprises have actively explored blockchain technology and its application in financial field. Digital money involves distributed architecture, cryptography, security chips, mobile payment, trusted computing and other technologies. Block-chaining is only one of the enabling technologies for digital money. Whether the future applies to digital currency depends on whether the block chain technology can solve the problems of network security, business processing performance and transaction consistency, etc. To this end, the People's Bank in 2016, selected in the bill business scene to build block chain technology application prototype system, and actively organize the parties to study their technical maturity and business fit, verify the feasibility of its application in the financial industry scale.
He also believes that the application of new technology in financial field can accelerate financial business innovation, help to reduce financial transaction cost and improve financial service efficiency. At the same time, the application of new technology improves the coupling degree between business and technology, enhances the contagion and concealment of financial risks, and the risks such as network attacks and technical dependency also accompany.
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