China’s digital yuan will be the currency of choice at the Beijing Winter Olympics, despite calls for athletes to avoid it

BY EAMON BARRETT

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When Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics starting Feb. 4, athletes, staff, and other visitors will have just three payment options for shopping in the city’s COVID-era Olympic Village: cash, Visa, and one of the world’s first central bank digital currencies, the digital yuan.

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“The Olympics has always been scheduled by the People’s Bank of China as the global coming out party for the digital yuan,” says Richard Turrin, author of Cashless: China’s Digital Currency Revolution. And even though COVID has put a damper on that party with a spectator ban, Turrin says, the PBOC will proceed with the digital yuan’s unveiling as planned……More Here

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