Tens of billions of bitcoin lost forever
Recently, the news about "China quietly ordered the closure of bitcoin mines" spread like wildfire. Some media learned through insiders that the central bank held a closed door meeting to rectify some mines with non-standard electricity consumption
in fact, the rectification and treatment of Mines started last year, especially after the closing of domestic exchanges last year, the relevant regulatory authorities also discussed the issue of mine retention, but the conclusion is that the reasons for closing mines are not sufficient, and the mines have not caused more social problems, and the risk points are not clear, so no specific arrangements have been made. However, all localities have received "window guidance", that is, local enterprises can not participate in digital currency mining
in 2016, China's power generation ranked first in the world, and the total power generation accounted for 25% of the world. In this case, according to common sense, mining power in China is indeed the most abundant, especially with the decline of China's economic growth, the wasted power resources are increasing
the electricity of power stations can not be stored, but if the electricity is converted into digital currency, it can be stored. In fact, if China's surplus power generation can be converted into bitcoin for storage, it should be the most efficient mode of proction and operation. It is equivalent to procing US dollars with electricity. It is a processing export mode with the highest added value
in addition, according to the historical development, most of the power in the future may be consumed by computers. This is a judgment I made, which can be witnessed by our generation. In our daily life, the proportion of electricity consumption will be lower and lower. In the future, mankind will solve all kinds of problems by means of digitization and blockchain, and "mines" will only increase, not decrease. Especially with the development of artificial intelligence, space exploration and other fields, the demand for computing power will increase exponentially
electricity is just a kind of energy, just like a person, the biggest energy consumption is not the limbs, but the brain. The human brain is a 24-hour machine. A thinking person's brain consumes 75% of the liver's stored blood sugar every day, and the oxygen consumption accounts for 20% of the whole body's oxygen consumption. The more the brain thinks, the more glucose the neurons need
When the electric lamp was invented 200 years ago, people thought that the best use of electricity was to light the bulb. Has the final say that what electricity market will be most effective in future? p> No one can see electricity. Up to now, it is difficult for many people to understand the mystery of its existence, but electricity has changed the world. The influence of many virtual things is often greater than that of physical things. What does "digital assets" mean to China and the world? I think it is difficult for many people, including the government, to make clear at this time. What we need to reflect on is that apart from the four great inventions, such as electricity, light, telephone, computer, digital currency and so on, how many of the things that are pushing mankind forward are invented by Chinawhen a phenomenon appears, we must study the background and logic behind it. The future competition can be said to be military competition, economic development competition and financial competition, but it can also be said to be ideological and computational competition. It's easier to close mines than to stop trends
According to Chaina alysis, a research firm, up to 20% of the existing bitcoin has disappeared forever. At the time of the study, about 3.8 million bitcoins could never be retrieved. In this article, we will explore all possible ways to lose bitcoin
1. Cryptocurrency hackers
the hacker behavior of cryptocurrency exchange is the main reason for the loss of bitcoin. Exchanges are a hot target for cyber criminals, accounting for 27% of cyber attacks in 2018. Mt. GOx was the first high-profile cryptocurrency hacker, but since then, many major exchanges have been hacked, including bitfinex, bitstamp and, more recently, cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange in New Zealand, which lost 9.4% of its total positions
Malwarethe malware on torrent website and Google play store are used to steal passwords from vulnerable categories. For example, there is a malware clipper that uses users' behavior of ing and pasting wallet addresses to steal passwords. For example, if you send BTC to an address, you usually and paste the address, because it is a long string of random characters, clipper malware will exchange wallet addresses, which means that when you paste, you will send encryption to the wrong address
Research firm chainanaalysis estimates that up to 20% of the existing bitcoin is gone forever. At the time of the study, about 3.8 million bitcoins could never be retrieved. In this article, we will explore all possible ways to lose bitcoin
1. Cryptocurrency hackers
the hacker behavior of cryptocurrency exchange is the main reason for the loss of bitcoin. Exchanges are hot targets for cybercriminals, and Mt. GOx is the first high-profile cryptocurrency hacker. Since then, many major exchanges have been hacked, including bitfinex, bitstamp and cryptopia, the cryptocurrency exchange in New Zealand, which recently lost 9.4% of its total holdings
The deceitful international security and Development Council (IsdC)the people who have new access to encryption technology have become the victims of false initial token issuance (ICO). They publicize themselves as a new cryptocurrency investment and will get high returns. They use "fear of missing" (fomo) because the project will never come true and the money will never be returned to investors. Experienced investors know how to analyze the project according to the team to assess whether they have the ability to fulfill their commitments, whether they have a minimum viable proct, etc. One of the most famous fraulent ICOS is centra, endorsed by Floyd Mayweather
8. Pump and mping program
coaxing and mping are price manipulation. Swindlers use social media groups to hype projects or tokens called "junk money". Because they have no added value or real use cases, their value will increase exponentially overnight. As soon as the value increases, fraudsters sell their tokens. Soon after that, the price of selling a large number of tokens drops sharply, resulting in huge losses for those who hold them for a long time or buy them at a higher price. Celebrities or people are also used to hype the so-called "ng money"
9. Refrigeration equipment is lost or damaged
many people start using bitcoin when it is not valuable. They throw away their old computers, misplaced hardware wallets, etc., or their computers are damaged
10. Careless
send bitcoin to the wrong address, some wallets and transactions, all options to prevent users from sending bitcoin to the wrong wallet (non bitcoin)
With more and more cases of bitcoin becoming rich, many people realize that the appreciation space behind bitcoin is very huge. Many people are annoyed that they didn't catch the train of becoming rich. Compared with the common legal currency in life, bitcoin is a virtual digital currency. Since its birth in January 2019, the price of bitcoin has increased from US $0.0025 to US $0.0025, After ten years of development, it has successfully broken through to US $31000, and the soaring momentum has not stopped{ RRRRR}
most of them come from bitcoin mined in the early stage of technology. Many people think that these bitcoins are worthless, and they are unwilling to spend time to save them, so they are graally forgotten by themselves, and even many people have long forgotten that they own bitcoin. It must be that those who lost them because they had no hope for bitcoin should regret it now, I can only comfort myself that I have no predestined relationship with sudden wealth