Who cares if it's crypto when it's centralized, controlled and under the eyes of the government. They would never put a cap on fiat, they can change the rules, they can now just more easily spy on transactions if they produce the wallets. It's a shit scenario. Fuck state owned crypto.
Basically it is a step to turn their fiat into cryptocurrency. Not for the sake of being centralized and some characteristics that privacy coin mostly has. The main advantage they can see is to make their transactions much more efficient in terms of speed and reliability. The government will not and never support their own crypto if they will not have control over it in such a way that they need to regulate it for the sake of their economic stability and improvements.
The issue is the main governments that are starting to rally behind their own state ran crypto are countries that are full of civil unrest and pseudo dictatorships. This doesn't bode well for their freedom, the government will create the wallets and tie them to individuals, they can then easily look at any person of interest and watch all of their transactions. This will definitely be used maliciously by these governments against people they don't like. You think they won't have copies of their private keys as well? They could easily load up a wallet sending transactions to drug dealers (or what have you let your imagination go wild) wallets who get arrested a week later and then and say oh look here their wallet showed a transaction from well known political activist, were going to have to go get him.
I don't trust this shit at all.
You might be right due to the role played by the government in terms of centralization but we can't know what will really happen if we don't give them another chance cause we can't judge people with what are they once were but who they are.
Mind you, people won't be force to use the national digital coin, for crypto to be mainstream of payments need something like this and if the governments create their own crypto is a plus for the whole community and crypto user.
It's not up to us or even the people in that country, that's why it's a dictatorship. It's their choices and control over everything. They don't care what anyone thinks.
Yes, you're right because when it comes to the government issue the citizens opinion don't count but if the government create national digital currency it will give crypto better exposure.
if some countries make their crypto, of course other countries will also follow it because surely they won't want to miss this advanced technology, I'm sure in the future other countries will make their crypto
China and Russia governments have announced their opinion for the currency backed digital crypto-asset but these rumours were not able to pass the rumours level, unfortunately. Maybe the new advanced technology of the developing countries will change the opinion of developed countries regarding the crypto-blockchain ecosystem and I am glad to see real work by Turkey.
Almost all governments probably have some working group examining how blockchain and concurrently a digital currency can benefit their economies. In the examples of these types of countries using blockchain first, helps ultimately reduce corruption and in some circumstances, greatly enhances surveillance of their peoples. Regardless, as foretold several years ago by many in these forums, blockchain technology is revolutionary and will be adopted by the world. Crypto and digitial currencies are just one use-case.
In the case for China, China is creating a crypto for more power, influence and control. Concurrently, China is evolving at a very rapid tech-pace, in many regards passing the U.S., but using their advancements to further hold onto their power, out of fear from outside influence and more recently, issues like HK.
The social credits system, a digital currency that will most definitely be tracked and etc. While what has been stated by China is great, the intent and purpose... use of blockchain/crypto is fundamentally and ideologically incompatible for what crypto inherently stands for.
Governments issued crypto currency will enhances government surveillance of their peoples and a senior crypto enthusiast once said for crypto to be mainstream of payment it will require a little sacrifice and people can still decide if they cherish their anonymity by avoiding the government digital currency.