Blockchain traditional games are treated differently

From the "roller coaster" trend in digital currency at the end of 20 17 to the multi-party encirclement and suppression at the beginning of 20 18, virtual currency once again dominated the circle of friends. At the same time, blockchain, as a decentralized ledger technology used at the bottom of Bitcoin, has been surrounded by headlines and lasted for a long time. Actually, it's not the first time that digital currency has made headlines. Like an invincible "Xiao Qiang", he comes out from time to time to "enliven" people's eyes. Recently, following ICO, blockchain has become a "upstart" in everyone's mouth. Is it its own shining light, or is it a cover-up of "magic"? The reporter of Futures Daily investigated this.

The crazy blockchain saw flowers in the fog.

According to the reporter of Futures Daily, the concept of blockchain can be traced back to the end of 2008. A mysterious person with a pseudonym "Satoshi Nakamoto" first put forward the concept of blockchain in the article "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" published in the forum. On June 38, 2009+10/October 3, the first building block of the blockchain was born, which is called the "founding building block".

It stands to reason that the blockchain is not new, but the blockchain has only been widely circulated recently, and people have only heard of it, not everyone knows it. If you ask one, two and three, I am afraid that few people can explain the word "blockchain" clearly. However, this strange blockchain has been going on for a long time and is very popular.

According to netizens, on June 9, 65438/kloc-0, Xu Xiaoping, the helm of Zhenge Fund, posted a message "Don't tell anyone" in the WeChat group of his portfolio. Xu Xiaoping wrote: "Dear CEOs, the blockchain revolution has arrived. This is a great technological revolution. Those who follow it prosper and those who oppose it die. It will subvert the tradition more quickly and thoroughly than the Internet and mobile Internet. I hope that everyone will act immediately, understand the blockchain and ICO and enter the blockchain era while based on their own business and doing a good job in the existing model. "

The optimism of traditional investors on blockchain is not groundless. In the past, the concept of blockchain has become the "darling" of the global capital market. Whether it is the US stock market, Hong Kong stock market or A-share market, funds are pouring in. According to the reporter, Eastman Kodak's share price fell by more than 70% last year, but after the company announced that it would issue Kodak coins, its share price rose by 77%. The release of Kodak coins may make Kodak, which has a history of 100 years, regain its glory.

In addition, according to the Wind information blockchain index, the index rose rapidly and continuously after New Year's Day, and even rose more than 5% in three trading days. In the A-share market, there are as many as 50 stocks with the concept of blockchain, including dozens of listed companies involved in blockchain business such as Sifang Jingchuang, Gao Weida and Tian Fei Chengxin.

GrandViewResearch, a market research and forecasting company headquartered in San Francisco, envisages in the report: "Blockchain technology is one of the most promising technical trends in the field of information technology." The report predicts that the American and Canadian markets will continue to grow. At the same time, with the application of blockchain technology in the financial industry, the compound growth rate of China and India will reach 37.6% in the next eight years.

I haven't understood what a blockchain is, and it just came, so fast. This is the reaction of most people to the blockchain at present. They are greedy when they hear it and confused when they touch it.

Blockchain important application supervision and ban

Blockchain is an important concept of Bitcoin. The Internet Finance Laboratory of Tsinghua University Wudaokou Finance College stated in the "2014-2016 Global Bitcoin Development Research Report" that the blockchain is the underlying technology and infrastructure of Bitcoin, and it is essentially a decentralized database. At the same time, as the underlying technology of Bitcoin, blockchain is a series of data blocks related to cryptography, and each data block contains one.

"In short, blockchain technology refers to a way in which everyone participates in bookkeeping. There is a database behind all systems. You can think of the database as a big ledger. Currently, they are recording their accounts. " A friend around me popularized to the reporter of Futures Daily.

After listening to the above concepts, do you understand the blockchain? Obviously it's not that easy. But when it comes to digital currency, it is no stranger. At present, the most famous application of blockchain technology is digital currency. The reporter learned that almost with the birth of blockchain technology, Bitcoin became the first thing to play its role, and it gradually became popular around the world with Bitcoin.

However, although Bitcoin is the most famous in many applications of blockchain, its life is not good. The reporter learned that since 20 17 12 17 bitcoin hit a record high of 2 1 189 USD/month, a wave of plunge began in just one month, and the decline continued into the new year, which can be described as miserable.

Not only bitcoin, but also virtual currency is uncomfortable. A person close to the central bank revealed to reporters that recently, the business management department of the central bank issued the Notice on Self-inspection and rectification of illegal virtual currency transaction payment business (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), requiring all legal person payment institutions within its jurisdiction to carry out self-inspection and rectification in their own units and branches from the date of issuance of the document, prohibiting the provision of services for virtual currency transactions, and taking effective measures to prevent payment channels from being used for virtual currency transactions. The circular also requires all units of the central bank to strengthen daily transaction monitoring. For the discovered virtual currency transactions, it is necessary to close the payment channels of relevant transaction subjects in time, properly handle the funds to be settled, and avoid triggering mass incidents.

17 10 17, virtual currency was the key target at the deployment meeting of the national public security organs and industrial and commercial departments to jointly rectify the illegal and criminal activities of online pyramid schemes. The reporter was also informed that at the beginning of this month, the leading group of the Office for Special Remediation of Internet Financial Risks issued a notice against Bitcoin, demanding that enterprises within its jurisdiction be actively guided to withdraw from the "mining" business in an orderly manner, and that relevant departments within its jurisdiction should actively coordinate and take multiple measures to comprehensively take measures such as electricity price, land, taxation and environmental protection to guide relevant enterprises to withdraw in an orderly manner.

In addition to China, South Korea, another global center of virtual currency, also announced that cryptocurrency transactions are registered in real-name registration system, it is forbidden to open cryptocurrency accounts anonymously, and the virtual currency exchange is closed at the request of the Korean Ministry of Justice.

As the two global centers of virtual currency, the attitudes of China and South Korea undoubtedly make virtual currency worse in the cold winter.

Blockchain development products are a matter of life and death.

Compared with the "ups and downs" of the virtual currency trend, ICO, as a phased product of the development of blockchain industry, has also experienced twists and turns. As for ICO, it is reported in the article "ICO is not equal in vitality" published by Futures Daily. ICO was silent after being severely punished and looked forward to rebirth.

12 year 10 month 12 day, China internet finance association issued "risk warning on preventing disguised ICO activities" (hereinafter referred to as "risk warning"), which once again brought ICO back to people's field of vision. According to the risk warning, the virtual digital asset (IMO) with the mining machine as the core was issued, represented by the issuance of Thunder "Chain" (formerly known as "Ke Fan Coin").

As can be seen from the above news, China's attitude towards ICO has always been firm. However, this did not prevent ICO from regaining its "second spring". The "Futures Daily" reporter learned that after the closure of the domestic ICO platform in September last year, the ICO industrial chain moved overseas. Huobi.com and OKCoin, the two largest exchanges in China, moved to Singapore, set up subsidiaries in Hong Kong and launched the Korean version. And OKCoin, it is said that through investment cooperation, has obtained digital asset trading licenses from many countries around the world, and has also gone abroad in an all-round way. The Coin Security provided by Zhao Changpeng and He Yi, who used to work in the marketing department of OKCoin, landed in Japan and ranked among the best in the global trading volume list.

Carnival is the loneliness of a group of people. In the face of ICO's risk warning, ICO's fanatical followers ignored it. The reporter found from some chat groups of ICO that this group of "Japanese-chasing families" are still participating in coin speculation. "Before operating in China, there were too many restrictions, so it was much more convenient to go abroad. You can trade without VPN. The server registered by them (ICO Project Company) is overseas, but we can buy it directly online. " The participants of ICO still enjoy it, and this carnival party has no end for them.

In addition to the existence of an army of currency speculators, the reporter also found an interesting phenomenon: two months ago, Gibraltar also introduced a draft regulation, which is expected to legalize the trading of cryptocurrencies. Estonia plans to issue its own cryptocurrency in an attempt to become a global ICO center. At the end of last year, Belarus recognized Bitcoin as legal tender and legalized ICO.

Faced with the ice and fire situation of ICO, currency circle veterans believe that "small countries embrace and tolerate this new thing, or because they think that blockchain technology is indeed a place where enthusiasm and wealth gather. If the supervision is liberalized, it will boost the national economy. "

At present, ICO, as a phased product of blockchain technology, is the most familiar. However, its embarrassing situation may take time to ease.

The energy of blockchain technology cannot be underestimated.

Whether it is Bitcoin or ICO, although it is related to blockchain, it is different from blockchain and is the tip of the iceberg of blockchain application. Sun Guofeng, director of the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, said in an interview with the media that blockchain technology can be applied to many fields and scenarios, including some social management scenarios, and it is necessary to further broaden the research and development horizons of blockchain technology.

The reporter of Futures Daily learned from a report issued by Santander, Spain's largest bank, that if blockchain technology is used in banks around the world around 2020, it will save about 20 billion US dollars every year. Some insiders believe that the future blockchain will change many industries such as financial industry, Internet industry, e-commerce industry, medical industry and personal identification. The optimism about blockchain technology is entirely because there is no centralized intermediary, so that everything can run automatically through pre-set programs, which can not only greatly reduce costs, but also improve efficiency. At the same time, everyone has the same account book, which can ensure the openness and transparency of the account book recording process.

The reporter found that in the "Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan" released at the end of 20 16, the construction of blockchain technology was included in the national informatization plan, and China began to explore the application of blockchain technology in various fields. From the perspective of national policy, the importance of blockchain technology is obvious. At the same time, the reporter learned that at present, in addition to the practice of blockchain in the financial field, many enterprises have begun to try to use the technological advantage of blockchain "decentralization" to solve their own industry problems. For example, Tencent's TrustSQL blockchain platform has been applied in many real scenarios such as supply chain finance, logistics finance, and legal custody.

However, in the face of the recent wave of blockchain boom, some people in the reporter's circle of friends said: "Be wary of the abuse of blockchain technology, not to solve the trust problem with technology, but to speculate on valuation under the guise of financing. The so-called ico is mostly a disguise of fund-raising tools and has nothing to do with technological innovation. They are some' pseudo innovations'. "

So, which areas are suitable for blockchain technology? Ieee fellow, the chief researcher of Tencent Financial Technology Think Tank, asked himself four questions: First, is the requirement for data security high? Second, make sure that there is no organization that all parties involved fully trust? Third, is the requirement for data processing efficiency high? Fourth, is the requirement for data privacy high? If the answer to the above question is yes, then this situation is suitable for blockchain.

For blockchain technology, the big brothers are very optimistic. Klaus schwab, founder of Davos Forum, believes that blockchain is an important achievement of the fourth industrial revolution. It is predicted that by 2025, 65,438+00% of global GDP will be stored by blockchain technology. An analyst at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) believes that cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and decentralization are likely to become an ecosystem worth $ 10 trillion.

Rational use of technical characteristics to avoid being divorced from reality and heading for emptiness.

Although the blockchain technology is hot and the situation is good, the voice of seeing decline also appears from time to time. "Futures Daily" reporter noted that some netizens said: "The great transfer of social wealth is often accompanied by technological revolution, which relies more on material attributes than virtual attributes. Based on various information, "blockchain" is a concept of "from concept to concept". It is just an algorithm without technological revolution and has no material properties. In this context, we cannot rashly talk about the great transfer of social wealth. "

More radical netizens shouted: "People who shout the blockchain revolution, or some people who engage in technology, fantasize in their minds, do sand table transactions, deduce this new data protocol, how to get rid of banks, and then save a lot of money, perfect!" "The blockchain is a Ponzi scheme."

"Everyone is innocent and guilty." A friend who studies blockchain technology told reporters: "These negative voices just equate virtual currency with blockchain, and the understanding is too one-sided and partial."

Su Peike, the chief researcher of university of international business and economics institute for public policy, also wrote: "The birth of any new thing will inevitably be accompanied by many differences and contradictions. If we can clearly understand the main line and dig deeper, the' casino' will not take away the achievements of the technological revolution, and this has just begun. "

The above friend said: "In the field of using blockchain, we should use its technical characteristics to solve its existing problems. This is the right way, instead of stealing concepts and playing with virtual things such as virtual currency."

Zhang Shousheng, a tenured professor at Stanford University, said in the article "Blockchain technology is a new turning point in the Internet world": "Our greatest wish is to make our society better through blockchain technology, let people create value through data sharing, make society fairer, and give everyone more new opportunities. We are facing this new revolution brought by blockchain and decentralization technology to this era. "

On October 22nd, 65438/kloc-0, Ma forwarded this article in a circle of friends and said, "At present, many people consume a lot of energy computing power to produce virtual digital currency. Is there an equivalent endorsement? According to life theory, many living systems should continue to evolve and be eliminated. "

The implication is that gold can only be seen in the waves. In the course of life, the illusory virtual currency will always be scattered with the wind.

What do you think of blockchain? Are you still consuming brain cells for the blockchain concept like a reporter? Then you may wish to learn a paragraph from the blockchain with the reporter-

Several old comrades, so earnestly said to the post-80s and post-90s:

Don't play with virtual things, such as blockchain and bitcoin.

Life, you should do something practical.

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How nice it would be to buy a house and marry a wife in Beijing!

A post-90s generation replied:

You old comrades

You just lied to us.

Over the years, you have worked tirelessly.

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Made a house of 65438+100000 square meters.

If we don't find another way out,

Put piles of numbers and letters

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How can I afford your house!

How to live up to this era!