A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.

Source

Reuters has gone to shit.

China's central bank will issue an action plan on digital yuan management, with a new generation of digital measurement framework and mechanism effective from January 1, the Financial Times, a publication run by the People's Bank of China, said on Monday.

They meant Financial News, not FT.

China to Pay Interest on Digital Yuan in Bid to Boost Adoption
https://archive.is/76UjF #1391210

This post has what wasn't clear at all from the Reuters article:

China to Pay Interest on Digital Yuan in Bid to Boost Adoption
#1391210

Further posts:

• Article XI -- Framing the Structure
• Article XII --The Threshold We Can No Longer Ignore
• Article XIII -- The Four Paths Forward
• Article XIV -- The Reformation of Money: Past as Prologue

The way you worded it, I thought you were trolling, as I assumed you would know Jed McCaleb history:

Jed McCaleb, creator of eDonkey P2P file sharing, 25 years ago.
Then he created Mt. Gox, before selling it to Mark Karpeles.
Then co-founded NewCoin, which then renamed to OpenCoin, which ultimately rebranded as Ripple (after buying the name from the founder of the IOU-based Ripple) / XRP
then Stellar / XLM
and now Vast (space and rockets)

Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/DvR78