Cognition of bitcoin

1.

When the global financial crisis broke out in 2008, someone published a paper under the pseudonym of "Nakamoto Tsung", describing the mode of bitcoin

many bitcoin players are attracted by the fact that bitcoin can not be issued at will. Contrary to the attitude of bitcoin players, economists have a polarized attitude towards the fixed amount of 21 million bitcoin

Economists of Keynesian school believe that the government should actively regulate the total amount of money, and use the tightness of monetary policy to timely fuel or brake the economy. As a result, they believe that bitcoin's fixed aggregate currency sacrifices its adjustability, and worse still, it will inevitably lead to deflation, thereby harming the overall economy. Austrian economists hold the opposite view. They think that the less the government intervenes in money, the better. The deflation caused by the fixed amount of money is not a big deal, even a sign of social progress

bitcoin network generates new bitcoin through "mining". In essence, the so-called "mining" is to use computers to solve a complex mathematical problem to ensure the consistency of bitcoin network distributed accounting system. Bitcoin network will automatically adjust the difficulty of mathematical problems, so that the whole network will get a qualified answer about every 10 minutes. Then bitcoin network will generate a certain amount of bitcoin as a reward to reward the person who gets the answer

when bitcoin was born in 2009, each reward was 50 bitcoins. Ten minutes after its birth, the first 50 bitcoins were generated, and the total amount of money at this time is 50. Then bitcoin grew at a rate of about 50 every 10 minutes. When the total amount reaches 10.5 million (50% of 21 million), the bounty will be halved to 25. When the total amount reached 15.75 million (5.25 million new output, or 50% of 1050), the bounty was further halved to 12.5

first of all, according to its design principle, the total amount of bitcoin will continue to grow until it reaches 21 million more than 100 years later. But the total amount of bitcoin will grow very slowly in the later period. In fact, 87.5% of bitcoin will be "g up" in the first 12 years. Therefore, in terms of the total amount of money, bitcoin will not reach a fixed amount, and its total amount of money will continue to expand, although the speed is getting slower and slower. So it looks like bitcoin is the inflation currency

However, the judgment of deflation or inflation is not based on whether the total amount of money is decreasing or increasing, but on whether the overall price level is falling or rising. The rise of overall price is inflation, and vice versa. In the long run, the issuing mechanism of bitcoin determines that the growth rate of its total amount of money will be far lower than that of social wealth

Economists of Keynesian school believe that the continuous decline of prices will make people tend to postpone consumption, because the same dollar can buy more things tomorrow. The rection of consumption will further lead to shrinking demand, unsalable goods, lower prices and a vicious circle of "deflation spiral". Similarly, the deflationary currency itself can appreciate even if it is not deposited in the bank (the purchasing power becomes stronger and stronger), people's willingness to invest will increase, and social proction will fall into a downturn[ 5] Therefore, bitcoin is a currency with deflationary tendency. In bitcoin economies, commodity prices priced with bitcoin will continue to fall

bitcoin is a kind of network virtual currency with limited quantity, but it can be used to cash out: it can be converted into the currency of most countries. You can use bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats, equipment, etc. in online games. As long as someone accepts it, you can also use bitcoin to buy real-life items

2. Bitcoin is an electronic payment currency. You can understand it as RMB on the Internet. blockchain technology is the technology to develop this kind of currency. Generally speaking, bitcoin was invented with blockchain technology. At present, blockchain can be applied to the Internet of things, intelligent manufacturing, supply chain management, digital assets and other fields. It is useful to use this technology. Here we can recommend a Domenech jewelry's Maobei digital virtual currency, which is a good practical application scenario with the combination of physical jewelry and blockchain technology. Please adopt it

3. The concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto on November 1, 2008, and was officially born on January 3, 2009. According to the idea of Nakamoto, the open source software is designed and released, and the P2P network on it is constructed. Bitcoin is a virtual encrypted digital currency in the form of P2P. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
unlike all currencies, bitcoin does not rely on a specific currency institution to issue. It is generated by a large number of calculations based on a specific algorithm. Bitcoin economy uses a distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses cryptography design to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The decentralized nature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially manipulate the value of bitcoin through mass proction. The design based on cryptography can make bitcoin only be transferred or paid by the real owner. This also ensures the anonymity of money ownership and circulation transactions. The biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total amount of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity

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4. Throughout history, there have been cases of gold, goods and even land confiscation in times of crisis. It is also disturbing that, as we have seen in Venezuela, people there are struggling with high inflation. Sometimes it is extremely difficult to convert money into another currency, which makes people feel helpless and can only watch their life savings be worthless. Bitcoin is very different. It is in electronic form and has no boundary restrictions. It can be transferred without any intermediary. Anyone who connects to a mobile device or the Internet can use it. All transactions are permanently recorded in the public ledger, and there is no dispute about ownership
in a recent article in the New York Times, a Venezuelan economist described how bitcoin became a part of Venezuela's daily life, so that on a mainstream bitcoin trading platform, Venezuela's trading volume ranked second only to Russia in the world. But bitcoin is not just used to protect wealth in extreme conditions. In general, bitcoin is also an excellent choice for portfolio diversification, and it should be seen as part of a comprehensive wealth preservation strategy.

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the birth of bitcoin
the birth of bitcoin should be on November 1, 2008. A man with the pseudonym of "Nakamoto Tsung" published a paper on the Internet. In this paper, he described in detail a new monetary system, which he named "bitcoin"

then, on January 3 of the next year, the first bitcoin program was born in the hands of Nakamoto Tsung, along with the first 50 bitcoins from mining. After that, he began to fade out until he disappeared completely

so far, people have not found out the real identity of this person, even if today's operators, Internet giants and the government have firmly grasped people's behavior on the Internet

he often switches between American and British English when he speaks. He goes online at different times of the day at random to hide his nationality and time zone; He hides his IP address, encrypts his email, and deliberately forges some writing and speaking styles to confuse the public; Besides, he is also an expert in cryptography. By the way, the place where he published his paper is called & quot; Cryptography mailing list & quot

so bitcoin was born with a hacker spirit: against the censorship imposed by any force

of course, we can also see that if a hacker who invented the anonymous currency system can't be anonymous, the whole thing will become a joke< But fortunately, Nakamoto didn't let us down

1. What is currency
I find that I can't run this section in any case to clarify what is bitcoin. I am not an expert in the field of economics. I can only talk about this issue in a very superficial and intuitive sense However, as far as the theme expressed in the title is concerned, it seems to be enough)

it has been mentioned in senior high school textbooks (remember?), Money is the medium to store value. If a thing wants to become money, it must meet the following requirements:

1) scarcity

that's why gold can be used and sand can't be used as money. Scarcity can be understood as the difficulty of obtaining it. The more scarce it is, the more difficult it is to obtain it. An intuitive understanding is as follows: assuming that your monthly salary is 5000 yuan, it means that the scarcity of RMB is just such a degree, that is, you have to pay a month's labor to get 5000 yuan. You won't agree to pay your salary with 5000 grains of sand, because instead of working for a month to get it, you can easily get it by walking around the beach

how does the current financial system guarantee the scarcity of money? Control distribution. The issue of money is firmly in the hands of the central bank, so that the amount of money can be controlled (so you now know that it is illegal to print money without permission). Back to the example just now, you agree to pay you a month's salary with 5000 yuan because the circulation of RMB has just reached this level. If the circulation of RMB doubles and the scarcity decreases, you should ask for 10000 yuan to pay your salary (but the response of the market is often not so fast. During this period, your wealth is actually deprived - your labor should have received 10000 yuan, but only 5000 yuan in return)

2) transactional

of course, the purpose of currency is to trade. As many people tell you, money is spent, not brought into the coffin. So in addition to meeting scarcity, the more convenient it is for a thing to trade, the more it meets the standard of ideal currency. Therefore, in the history of currency, silver dollar has replaced shells, paper money has replaced silver dollar, and digital currency is graally replacing paper money

the "transaction" here refers to the transfer of property from one party to the other, that is, the decrease of one party's property and the corresponding increase of the other party. For physical currency, it happens very naturally. A wants to give 100 yuan to B. when the 100 yuan note is transferred from a's hand to B's hand, the transaction is completed. A's property is reced by 100 yuan and B's property is increased by 100 yuan. There is no third party involved in this process, which is completely a private act between a and B; However, when the transaction takes place at the level of digital currency, it is not so simple. Party A has to give 100 yuan to Party B. how can we ensure that the transaction is completed? Suppose that a and B record their wealth on their respective computers, how can we ensure that when B adds 100 yuan to them, a actually subtracts 100 yuan from them? Now we have to bring in a third party - the guy we call the bank. When a wants to transfer 100 yuan to B, he doesn't directly give it to B, but to the bank, "please transfer my 100 yuan to B", so the bank dected 100 yuan from a's account and added 100 yuan to B's account Let's assume that it generously does not charge any transaction fee)

the above is a rough model of modern monetary system. The biggest disadvantage of this model is that people have to trust a central system

the transaction of digital currency must rely on the bank, and a person's bank account number may be censored, restricted or even deprived. When one party wants to transfer his wealth to the other party, the bank can charge a high fee or refuse directly (for example, you try to remit a sum of money to a relative in the United States)

the issuance of money must rely on the central bank. Well, it's a well-known secret: the currency has been devaluing, or over issuing (think of the $100 20 years ago and the $100 now). I quote two paragraphs, one of which is Keynes's saying, "through a continuous process of inflation, the government can confiscate a part of citizens' wealth secretly and unknowingly. In this way, we can deprive the people of their wealth at will, while making the majority poor, we can make the minority rich, Another paragraph, from Hayek, "the government can not restrain the impulse to issue money indiscriminately."

is it possible to design a monetary system in which we do not need a central institution and are not forced to trust any third party, so as to make the issuance of currency transparent and controllable, and the transaction of currency private and secure

guess what

2. What is bitcoin
so we can now answer that bitcoin is an e-money system with decentralized distribution and transaction. In this system, the circulation of money is transparent and predictable, and the transaction of money uses the cooperation of the whole network to ensure the security of the transaction

next, I will graally dismantle the principle of bitcoin. It should be noted that bitcoin, as a proct already in use, has a lot of details. The purpose of this article is to explain the basic principles of bitcoin to readers without technical background, so these details will not be covered. For example, the address of the wallet is not the public key, but the second hash value of the public key; The difficulty requirement of blockchain is not to hash all the contents of blockchain once; wait. But for the sake of brevity, without affecting the explanation of the basic principles, these are simplified. I hope you can understand them

2.0. Bitcoin network is composed of many nodes running bitcoin programs
bitcoin is a network composed of many equal nodes

a node is a bitcoin program. Any machine that can connect to the Internet and have certain computing power can run this program - so your home computer can also be used as a node in the bitcoin network:)

nodes can communicate with each other. At the same time, bitcoin has a set of mechanism that allows a node to send messages to all other nodes, This behavior is called "broadcasting."

2.1. Blockchain - a public account book
let's go back to the example of banks. The most basic function of a bank is to maintain an account book, which only needs to record every transaction truthfully. For example, Wang Xiaoming transferred 30 yuan to Zhang Damao on X, year X; On y, y, y, y, Zhang Da Mao transferred 12 yuan to Li Xiao Dou, and so on. According to this account book, we can find all the transaction records of a person, so we can calculate the current account balance of the person. For example, since Li Xiaodou started to build a bank account, the total amount of transactions transferred in is 500 yuan, and the total amount of transactions transferred out is 300 yuan. Then it can be calculated that the balance of Li Xiaodou's account must be 200 yuan at this time

maintain this account book, and as the only maintainer (only the bank has the right to view and modify), the bank's responsibility as a trading center is completed

bitcoin also has an account book, but unlike banks, this account book is open and anyone can view and review it

this account book is called & quot; Blockchain & quot;. You can think of blockchain as a pamphlet. Every page of the pamphlet is full of transaction information, and new pages are constantly added<

2.2 Wallet - an account composed of a pair of public keys and private keys
the above section explains what a bitcoin account book is. This section will explain the ownership of funds in this account book, that is, the account system of bitcoin

there are essential differences between accounts in bitcoin and bank accounts

under a bank account, the bank records the identity information of the owner of the account (think back to the information you submitted when you went to the bank to open an account: photo, ID card, telephone number, home address...), so as long as you can prove your identity to the bank, you will get the ownership of the property under your name. In this model, the bank plays the role of an omniscient God: he knows the wealth information of real people. We have no choice but to pray to God not to let our information out or use it for evil

in the world of bitcoin, there is no such institution as bank, which will not force people to reveal their identities in exchange for the security of funds. Bitcoin's account is simply composed of two strings of numbers, which are called "public key" and "private key" respectively, and there is nothing else

the mathematical characteristics of these two numbers - a data encrypted by a private key can only be decrypted by a public key, so-called asymmetric encryption - enable them to perfectly implement the functions required by an account (called a wallet in the bitcoin world)

we take the public key as the account address - also known as the wallet address in the bitcoin world - which is similar to the account number in the banking system, that is, when you tell someone "please call 300 yuan for my account number", you need to tell them. For the bank, it is "China Merchants Bank 6214850200251100", compared with the special currency, it is "

the private key is the * only * certificate to prove the ownership of the wallet. You can hold it by proving that you are the private key of the wallet

6. Bitcoin system mainly uses hash algorithm and asymmetric encryption algorithm in cryptography to ensure the security of the transaction: on the premise of the transaction information being open in the whole network, the one-way property of hash algorithm protects the privacy information of both sides of the transaction; Asymmetric encryption algorithm can ensure that your bitcoin will not be transferred to other people's pocket ring the transaction< In theory, these cryptography principles can guarantee the realization of bitcoin's basic functions as a "decentralized currency", but it has some problems:
the first problem is system security:
we say that in the world of bitcoin, all information is expressed in the form of code through hash operation
then, where there is code, there must be loopholes, which give hackers an opportunity to take advantage of
as early as 2010, shortly after the emergence of bitcoin, a hacker took advantage of the vulnerability of bitcoin's core software to create hundreds of billions of bitcoins. It's like a person mastering the banknote printing machine. It's terrible. Or, hackers directly hack into our computers and steal our private keys, which will also cause us heavy losses
the second problem is that the transaction processing speed is too slow:
in the bitcoin system, there are up to seven transactions per second, which obviously can not meet the normal transaction requirements. We need to know that Alipay, Taobao and WeChat can handle hundreds of thousands or even millions of transactions every second. A deal can only be processed in 1-2 seconds. If bitcoin is used for daily money, then we will pay 1-2 yuan to handle it successfully.
the third problem is that bitcoin mining consumes too much power: Mining requires professional mining machines, which have high computing power, but consume a huge amount of power. Moreover, according to the current market, it is difficult to recover the cost of buying a mining machine for a year. Therefore, some people doubt: what is the significance of consuming so much power to maintain a system with such slow trading speed
the fourth problem is the regulatory attitude:
at present, the attitude of various countries towards bitcoin is very polarized: the supporting countries and retail stores accept bitcoin for payment, and there are also bitcoin ATMs; Countries that don't support it will crack down on it
to sum up, if bitcoin is measured by a monetary system, it must have various shortcomings. However, we can not deny the brilliance of bitcoin: bitcoin represents not only a new set of "decentralized" currency system, but also the origin of blockchain technology and a new ideology, which has far-reaching influence
from the perspective of bitcoin's own function currency:
bitcoin is the largest digital currency so far. It is an important application in the era of blockchain 1.0 and the first application of blockchain. Under the premise of decentralization, bitcoin realizes the functions of digital currency in the stages of issuance, payment and circulation, which is a new means of payment
from the perspective of bitcoin's underlying technology, blockchain:
with the increasing attention of bitcoin, blockchain, as its underlying technology, is becoming more and more well known by the public. Blockchain has graally separated from digital currency and penetrated into many commercial fields. Different instries hope to apply bitcoin Technology to our real life, Through a variety of application scenarios, let us get a better experience
from the perspective of bitcoin ideology:
it has set off a great ideological storm. The "decentralization" and consensus mechanism of bitcoin is a new ideology in the current centralized society. Throughout history, whether the Renaissance or the enlightenment, these are all ideological changes under specific historical conditions. The popularization of these new ideas and new consciousness will take a long time to be accepted by all. In terms of the influence of bitcoin:
digital currency has been accepted and recognized by some national markets, resulting in a large number of digital currency trading platforms and the emergence of a large number of counterfeit currencies. These counterfeit currencies have further evolved into a new financing mode, writing the myth of sudden wealth, which has also led to the proliferation of cheating under the banner of digital currency, such as air currency and pyramid selling currency
in short, bitcoin has outlined a grand blueprint, that is, the currency in the future will no longer depend on the release of central banks, but on the global currency unification. However, from the current situation, the blockchain 1.0 era, represented by bitcoin, only meets the basic functions of digital currency and cannot be popularized to other instries
however, in a word, bitcoin: there are shortcomings in the United States and China, and it is hard to cover up the edge.

7. The general idea of "fragmentation" is to change each block in the blockchain network into a sub blockchain, in which several (currently 100) collations (which can be called "check blocks", in order to distinguish them from the concept of blocks in the scenario of fragmentation) packed with transaction data can be accommodated, and these collations finally form a block on the main chain; Because these collations exist as blocks as a whole, their data must be packaged and generated by a specific miner, which is essentially the same as the blocks in the existing protocol, so there is no need to add additional network confirmation. In this way, the trading capacity of each block will be expanded about 100 times; And this kind of design is also concive to future expansion. At present, the whole expansion plan is roughly divided into four stages; This article only introces the implementation details of the first phase. Transferred from Jianshu. Currency exchange of digital currency

8.

Does money need to be valuable? Since the decoupling of the dollar from gold in 1971, all the comparisons in the world have been a piece of paper or a cheap metal pie. Therefore, since then, some economists have called this kind of currency counterfeit. Then it also has a name called legal money. Its full name is legal tender, and its endorser is government credit

So for capitalists, they prefer value-added currency rather than falling currency. In China, this may not work, but in foreign countries, if capitalists think that they can no longer play according to such rules, their government will have to go according to the will of capital sooner or later. That's why Goldman Sachs and Morgan started to enter the bitcoin market

in order to attract more attention, bitcoin will surely welcome its spring with soaring rather than plummeting before it reaches its peak

9. If you are not familiar with it, you can also download a management application such as a mobile phone guard and go to my computer to check it. If you can't, you have to reload the system