{"id":66841,"date":"2026-01-08T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66841"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:46:32","slug":"chinas-decision-to-pay-interest-on-digital-yuan-gives-them-competitive-advantage-over-the-us-says-brian-armstrong-rewards-benefit-ordinary-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=66841","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Decision To Pay Interest On Digital Yuan Gives Them Competitive Advantage Over The US, Says Brian Armstrong: &#8216;Rewards Benefit Ordinary People&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Coinbase Global Inc.<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) CEO\u00a0<strong>Brian Armstrong<\/strong> expressed concerns on Wednesday over the competitiveness of dollar-pegged stablecoins in light of China\u2019s decision to pay interest on its central bank digital currency.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Armstrong Questions Policymakers<\/h2>\n<p>In an X post, Armstrong argued that China\u2019s move to pay\u00a0interest on its official digital\u00a0currency, Digital Yuan, gives it a \u201ccompetitive advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRewards [or even paying interest] benefits ordinary people just like community lending does. We have to let the market do both,\u201d Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency mogul said the U.S. is \u201cmissing the forest through the trees\u201d and risks losing the competitive edge if policymakers restrict rewards on stablecoins.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China has decided to pay interest on their own stablecoin, because it benefits ordinary people, and they recognize it as a competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>I worry we are missing &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/01\/49774968\/chinas-decision-to-pay-interest-on-digital-yuan-gives-them-competitive-advantage-over-the-u?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"China's\" decision to pay interest on digital yuan gives them competitive advantage over the us says brian armstrong: benefit ordinary people>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinbase Global Inc.\u00a0(NASDAQ:COIN) CEO\u00a0Brian Armstrong expressed concerns on Wednesday over the competitiveness of dollar-pegged stablecoins in light of China\u2019s decision to pay interest on its central bank digital currency. Armstrong Questions Policymakers In an X post, Armstrong argued that China\u2019s move to pay\u00a0interest on its official digital\u00a0currency, Digital Yuan, gives it a \u201ccompetitive advantage.\u201d \u201cRewards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-66841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}