Bitcoin is a financial asset

1. Why should the United States recognize bitcoin as a legal financial instrument? Its purpose is to bring bitcoin into the financial regulatory system to protect the interests of ordinary investors. This is the same starting point as our central bank's announcement to ban bitcoin. A typical representative case is a case called Trenton? In 2011-2012, he amassed 700000 bitcoins with a total value of more than US $4.5 million, but he suddenly closed the trust in August 2012, and then claimed that bitcoin was not money and was not regulated by the US government. In order to protect the interests of investors, in August 2013, the court ruled that bitcoin as a financial instrument should be regulated by the US government. This is interpreted as "the United States recognized bitcoin"

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Bitcoin, English name bitcoin, is a digital currency based on blockchain technology, which is composed of a series of computer-generated complex codes. Like RMB's ￥ and US dollar's $, bitcoin has its own symbol, the "B" in the figure below

The inventor of

bitcoin is Nakamoto. Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of bitcoin protocol and its related software bitcoin QT. In 2008, he published a paper called "bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system", describing an electronic currency and its algorithm that he called "bitcoin"

In 2009, he released the first bitcoin software and officially launched the bitcoin financial system

In 2010, he graally faded out and handed over the project to other members of the bitcoin community

Nakamoto is believed to hold about one million bitcoins. If the price of each bitcoin was $2W, it was worth $20 billion at one time. So far, his true identity is still unknown to the outside world, that is to say, no one knows who Nakamoto is

bitcoin appeared after the global financial crisis in 2008. In fact, before that, many people have tried electronic currency, digital currency and virtual currency, but they have not succeeded. There are not only technical reasons, but also social environment and economic background reasons. To some extent, it was the 2008 financial crisis that gave birth to bitcoin

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The concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. According to Nakamoto's idea, open source software was designed and released, and P2P network was built on it

bitcoin is a kind of universal encrypted electronic currency in the world, and it is completely autonomous by users. Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system

bitcoin can be cashed and converted into the currency of most countries. Users can use bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats and equipment in online games. As long as someone accepts it, they can also use bitcoin to buy real-life items

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Bitcoin is an Internet virtual asset

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 use the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of money 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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currency features:

1. Decentralization: bitcoin is the first distributed virtual currency, and the whole network is composed of users without a central bank. Decentralization is the guarantee of bitcoin's security and freedom

2. Global circulation: bitcoin can be managed on any computer connected to the Internet. No matter where you are, anyone can dig, buy, sell or collect bitcoin

3. Exclusive ownership: private key is needed to control bitcoin, which can be stored in any storage medium in isolation. No one can get it except the user himself

4. Low transaction cost: bitcoin can be remitted free of charge, but a transaction fee of about 1 bitfen will be charged for each transaction to ensure faster transaction execution

5, no hidden cost: as a means of payment from a to B, bitcoin has no cumbersome limit of quota and proceres. If you know the other party's bitcoin address, you can pay

6. Cross platform Mining: users can explore the computing power of different hardware on many platforms

5. Whether bitcoin is a bubble or a historical opportunity is a topic that the market will never stop discussing before the real test comes up. To evaluate the real value of an asset, perhaps the financial crisis is the best touchstone

ring the global financial crisis in 2007 / 08, the price of gold fluctuated sharply. In March 2008, the price of gold peaked at 1032, then plummeted to 680 in a few months, and then went all the way to the peak in 1920.

6. Bitcoin is a kind of financial virtual currency, which has investment value, but also has huge risks.

7. Legislation stipulates that bitcoin belongs to special goods and should belong to virtual property. It was stipulated by the central bank in December 2013.

8. Bitcoin belongs to Internet finance.

9. The assets agreed in derivatives contracts for trading can be physical commodities, financial assets, interest rates, composite price index, etc. The underlying asset of bitcoin option is bitcoin Bitcoin dollar index)