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It's not against the law
The laws and administrative regulations in China do not prohibit the proction, holding and legal circulation of bitcoin, nor do they prohibit the sale of bitcoin mining machines2. The investment and transaction of "virtual currency" represented by bitcoin are on the rise. For this kind of virtual goods generated in the Internet environment after the development of Internet technology, there are policy and commercial risks in related transactions. However, under the premise of not violating the mandatory provisions of laws and administrative regulations, the contract signed by the parties is a valid contract
3. Bitcoin is generated by "miner" and "mining", and "miner" can be assumed by anyone in any place in the world. "Mining" is a process in which "miner" provides certain computer computing power according to the open source software provided by the designer, and obtains the special solution of the equation through complex mathematical operations, The miner who gets the special solution gets a certain amount of bitcoin reward
Because bitcoin is based on workload proof, it is related to computing power. To have computing power, we need to consume power, so its power consumption is very large. It is precisely because of such a large power consumption that the safe and stable operation of bitcoin system can be guaranteed
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according to the data of btc.com website, up to now, the computing power of the whole bitcoin network is about 51.65 eh / s, which is equivalent to 1.84 million bitcoin S15 (28T computing power, 1596w power) mining machines in operation, and the daily power consumption is about 69.92 million kwh. Divided by the current proction of 1800 bitcoins per day, excluding other costs, each bitcoin will consume 38800 kwh of electricity. "
from this point of view, although the current price of bitcoin is expensive, the cryptocurrency market website coinmarketcap.com shows that the current unit price is about $7900, but the cost of mining a bitcoin is not low at all
the further development of bitcoin may threaten the interests of traditional currencies, and currency issuers will not cede their rights to an open-source P2P algorithm. So governments are likely to outlaw bitcoin
once governments declare it illegal, it may cause huge fluctuations in its price in the short term. It could be a crash, it could be a surge. Because people at the bottom of the world are obviously resistant to their governments< At the same time, the ban by the government will lead to the closure of bitcoin trading platform. After the closing of the trading platform, bitcoin can only be cashed in private, which will have a great impact on its cashing ability< However, e to the characteristics of bitcoin itself, it provides an excellent channel for officials of various countries to accept bribes, launder money and transfer assets overseas. Especially in the trend that officials of various countries disclose their property, bitcoin provides a good way for them to hold huge property anonymously
from this perspective, some officials may actively promote the legalization of bitcoin< On May 7, 2013, officials from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said that they were considering whether the online virtual currency "bitcoin" could be applied to the agency's regulations. CFTC is the highest regulator of the derivatives instry in the United States. Bitcoin is known as a currency independent of traditional authority, and if it is regulated more, it may bring challenges to its supporters
CFTC mainly supervises derivatives contracts. Its responsibilities have been greatly expanded after the financial crisis in 2007-2009, and it also has full power to supervise retail foreign exchange dealers
Bart Chilton, one of the five members of the CFTC, said on Monday that he had asked the committee to consider regulating bitcoin to determine whether consumers need additional protection when using bitcoin[ 15]
the Hong Kong government has approved GBL electronic currency trading center to operate virtual currency exchange business, which will be an important milestone in the development of bitcoin. GBL virtual electronic currency trading center has completed the equity change and has the business scope of virtual electronic currency exchange business.
when it comes to bitcoin, I don't know which country has money. People with some knowledge know that bitcoin is actually a virtual currency. In 2008, after the global financial crisis, a person who called himself "Zhongben" created a virtual currency "bitcoin" In 2009, bitcoin was officially born. This is a virtual cryptocurrency that uses distributed payment system in the form of blockchain or P2P bitcoin. Unlike all other currencies, bitcoin has no specific currency issuer< therefore, if bitcoin is used maliciously, it is likely to be used by others, which is likely to have a huge impact on the domestic economy. Therefore, for the sake of security, many countries do not recognize the legitimacy of bitcoin
the advantages of blockchain are openness, simple review and high reliability. For example, there are now four people in business: A, B, C and D. A gives B money. Before B pays C, B must "package" the transaction between a and B and give it to C together, so that B can be considered to have completed a transaction similarly, before C and D transactions, it is necessary to package the transactions between a and B and between B and C and D“ "Package" will reward traders with one bitcoin at a time. Due to the special trading mode of bitcoin, bitcoin is deeply loved by some people. According to statistics, since the official birth of bitcoin, it has completed 11 trillion dollar transactions! In other words, from 2009 to 2019, a total of 11 trillion US dollars have been transferred through bitcoin. What we need to know is that U.S. Treasury bonds are about 22.5 trillion yuan. That is to say, bitcoin has such huge energy. In about 10 years, bitcoin has transferred half of U.S. Treasury bonds. Why don't countries recognize its legal status? The first reason is the problem of "black instrial chain". Because of the particularity of bitcoin, it is easier for some people in the "black instry chain" to use it. I believe everyone knows its purpose