China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy

WSJ: A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar of American power. “He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads”  and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name