As the world's second largest economy launches its digital currency to get ahead of the first.. in the end the real winner will be the country with the largest Bitcoin and major decentralised cryptocurrency reserves.

The digital yuan may give China a technological advantage over the dollar but at the end of the day both the dollar and the yuan are mass printed worthless pieces of government branded toilet paper.

The economy that will come out on top, is that with the largest stockpile of quality decentralised cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin