The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first event to allow overseas visitors to use the digital yuan via smartphones and wearable payment devices. Photo: AFP
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first event to allow overseas visitors to use the digital yuan via smartphones and wearable payment devices. Photo: AFP

China’s digital currency racks up ‘a couple of million’ yuan of payments per day at the Beijing Winter Olympics

  • The Olympic trial is the first time visitors from overseas are free to use China’s digital currency via smartphones and wearable payment devices
  • No breakdown available for use among international attendees, though it ‘seems all the foreign users are using hardware wallets’, central bank says

The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first event to allow overseas visitors to use the digital yuan via smartphones and wearable payment devices. Photo: AFP
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first event to allow overseas visitors to use the digital yuan via smartphones and wearable payment devices. Photo: AFP
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