Blockchain token types

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1、 Different definitions:

1. virtual currency:

virtual currency refers to non real currency

digital currency:

digital currency is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy

3. Cryptocurrency:

cryptocurrency is a kind of transaction medium that uses cryptography principles to ensure transaction security and control the creation of transaction units

4. Token (token):

a kind of article whose shape and size are similar to currency, but the scope of use is limited and has no currency effect, and its token is the homonym of token in English

Second, the characteristics are different:

1; It can also be said that virtual currency is personalized currency. In another way, it can also be called information currency

2. Digital currency:

is an unregulated and digital currency, which is usually issued and managed by developers and accepted and used by members of specific virtual communities

Cryptocurrency:

cryptocurrency is based on the decentralized consensus mechanism, which is opposite to the banking and financial system relying on the centralized regulatory system

4. Token (token):

usually needs to be exchanged for money, used in shops, playgrounds, mass transportation and other places, as a voucher to use services and exchange goods

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at present, digital currency is more like an investment proct, because it lacks a strong guarantee agency to maintain its price stability, and its role as a value measure has not yet appeared, so it can not be used as a means of payment. As an investment proct, digital currency cannot develop without trading platform, operating company and investment company

digital currency is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the blockchain technology it relies on has been decentralized and can be used in other fields except digital currency, which is one of the reasons why bitcoin is popular; On the other hand, if digital currency is widely used by the public as a kind of currency, it will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy, financial infrastructure, financial market and financial stability

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1. Litcoin (LTC) is an improved version of digital currency inspired by bitcoin (BTC). It was designed and implemented by a programmer who worked in Google. It was released on November 9, 2011. Lightcoin and bitcoin have the same implementation principle in technology, but the creation and transfer of lightcoin is based on an open source encryption protocol, which is not managed by any central organization

2. Sunshine coin (SSC for short) is sponsored by Liu Chunyang, vice president of Jinhua express delivery Association of Zhejiang Province, instrial entrepreneur and philanthropist of express delivery instry. As a legal person, Zhejiang Dongyang Yueyin Technology Co., Ltd. is registered with the formal instry and Commerce Bureau, with a registered capital of 10 million yuan. With this as the backing and support, the sunshine elite team affiliated to the company launched the first virtual coin sunshine coin

The English name of Vicat is onecoin, which is a kind of Internet virtual currency term created by the government and is suspected of pyramid selling fraud

in 2017, CCTV announced the list of 350 fund pyramid schemes, with Vicat in the list

in May 2018, Zhuzhou County Procuratorate of Hunan Province prosecuted the last four suspects involved in the third batch of the "3.15" Vicat money online pyramid scheme case supervised by the Ministry of public security to the court

4. Amazon coin

Amazon announced in early February 2013 that it is expected to launch Amazon coins in the United States in May 2013. Amazon coins is a new virtual currency that allows U.S. users to buy apps, games and props in the kindle fire. Amazon will provide tens of millions of US dollars of Amazon coins at that time to let users try and consume the apps, games and props in the app on the kindle fire for free

5. Eth is a kind of digital token of Ethereum, which is regarded as "bitcoin version 2.0". It adopts the blockchain technology "Ethereum", which is different from bitcoin. It is an open-source public blockchain platform with intelligent contract results, and a resonance network composed of thousands of computers around the world. Developers need to pay eth to support the application. Like other digital currencies, ether currency can be bought and sold on the trading platform

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From the current mainstream blockchain projects, blockchain projects are mainly divided into four categories: the first category: currency; The second is platform; The third category: application category; The fourth type: asset token

currencies mainly act as the "exchange media" in the field of blockchain assets, and the exchange media refer to general equivalents, such as gold and silver bills in the past< (currency exchange on trading blockchain assets)

platform projects refer to the establishment of technical platforms to meet the needs of various blockchain application development, which can rece the threshold of application development on blockchain

application projects cover a wide range of fields, including finance, social networking, games, property rights protection, etc., and are also the fastest growing fields of blockchain assets

asset token project refers to the blockchain mapping of physical assets, that is, the physical assets on the chain. At present, there are no more than 10 varieties

01 currency

the first category is currency project, which is also the earliest blockchain project. Currency projects mainly include bitcoin and lightcoin. In addition, there is another kind of asset with the characteristics of anonymity. Its main functions include protecting the privacy of both sides of payment while realizing payment. The well-known ones are dash, monero and zcash. Currency is mainly used as the "exchange medium" in the field of blockchain assets. The exchange medium is the general equivalent you use to exchange goods. For example, gold, silver and silver bills can be used as the exchange medium in the past. At present, there are more than 2100 types of digital assets in the world, and the number of currency blockchain projects has increased rapidly recently. As of June 2018, bitcoin is still the largest market value

02 platform type

the second type is platform type blockchain project. The main function of platform type blockchain project is to establish a technical platform to meet the technical requirements of various blockchain application development; In short, platform applications allow developers to directly issue digital assets and write smart contracts on the blockchain. Smart contract is a computer program running on the blockchain database, which can be automatically executed under the conditions of its source code setting

for example, you develop a smart contract based on the house rent protocol on the blockchain. When the owner receives the rent, it will trigger the automatic execution and give the security key of the apartment to the tenant

the main function of platform blockchain projects is to establish the underlying technology platform, so that developers can do application development on the underlying technology platform. A considerable number of platforms are still in the development state. As of June 2018, Ethereum has the largest market value

03 application

the third category is application blockchain projects. Application projects are blockchain projects based on blockchain development platform (such as Ethereum), which can solve many problems in various fields of the real economy

for example, augur, Golem, vechain, omisego, which provides asset exchange and transfer services. Using blockchain technology, these projects can better solve the problems of trust and cross-border circulation. At the same time, using smart contracts and tokens on the blockchain, they can better realize automatic execution and greatly improve the efficiency of social and economic activities. Application blockchain projects cover a wide range of fields, including finance, social networking, games, property rights protection and so on. It is also the field with the fastest market value increment of blockchain projects at present

04 asset token

the fourth category is the asset token blockchain project. Asset token refers to linking the blockchain assets to physical assets such as gold and US dollars, which is the blockchain mapping of physical assets. As of February 2018, there are no more than 10 varieties. The typical representatives are usdt against US dollars, digix Dao against gold, Digix each token represents 1 gram of Gold Certified by the London Bullion Market Association. Asset token has the advantages of convenient transaction and safekeeping. First of all, asset token is more convenient for transaction. Because blockchain assets can be split, it has better liquidity

for example, at present, real estate needs to be transferred as a whole. If the real estate can be token, it can be split and purchased, which is more convenient for transaction. Secondly, the token of physical assets is more concive to custody. Gold is easy to wear out and cause losses in physical transactions, but there is no need for physical transfer after the token of physical assets, which is more concive to the custody of physical assets

4. Virtual currency refers to the currency that does not exist in reality and exists in a virtual state, such as bitcoin, lightcoin, Ethereum and so on; Token refers to the form of money that can be used as a monetary function and can be used to purchase goods
virtual currency can be used for shopping transactions in certain situations, such as in some places abroad; At this time, it counts as a token and plays the role of currency
but token, such as the shopping card voucher printed by the company itself, can be used for the internal consumption of the company. To some extent, it is equivalent to token; However, it is not a virtual currency
that is to say, virtual currency may be token; But token is not necessarily a virtual currency.

5. The development of blockchain technology is obvious to all, but there are essential differences between blockchain coin and virtual coin. It can be considered that blockchain projects developed with entity pain points have specific landing applications and entity support, and blockchain tokens issued with entity pain points still have certain value support; If there is no specific entity and application to support virtual currency, it is just air currency and has no value, then the risk is relatively large.

6. Blockchain wallet is a tool to save the private key of blockchain digital currency. Every digital currency has a wallet. The types of blockchain wallet are as follows:
1. General wallet
can support different blockchain tokens. For example, anmao wallet supports BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, etc, dash and erc-20 series
2. Main Chain Wallet
in order to achieve their own goals, each coin must establish its own main chain, so that it can carry out business. After the main chain goes online, it needs to use the project's own wallet. Just like the green apple wallet of GAC coin, it is a wallet dedicated to GAC trading and transaction clearing
3. Exchange wallet
there are also wallets in the exchange. If the player's currency is recharged into the exchange, the corresponding currency will enter the exchange wallet. The exchange wallet is almost the same as the ordinary wallet. You can fill in the corresponding wallet address when transferring and withdrawing cash, and the corresponding wallet address will be generated for different currencies of each exchange
4. Hardware wallet
generally speaking, the wallet is software wallet, which is a PC program or app. As the name suggests, a hardware controlled wallet can be connected to the network when it is used, and can be stored off the network at other times, so as to avoid exposing the wallet to the network space.

7. There are not too many reliable domestic digital currencies. Generally, most excellent digital currencies are imported procts, such as bitcoin, Leyte currency, ether currency, etc
however, Yuanbao coin, Ruitai coin, bitcoin and the tokens of different crowdfunding projects in Europe are excellent digital currencies.

8. The fourth type of blockchain project is asset token project. What are the characteristics of asset token project? What are the typical representatives
the fourth category is the asset token blockchain project. Asset token refers to linking blockchain assets to physical assets such as gold and US dollars. It is the blockchain mapping of physical assets. At present, there are no more than 10 varieties. The typical representative is usdt against US dollars, digix Dao against gold, digix. Each token represents 1 gram of Gold Certified by London Bullion Market Association
asset token has the advantages of convenient transaction and storage. First of all, asset token is more convenient for transaction. Because blockchain assets can be split, it has better liquidity. For example, at present, real estate needs to be transferred as a whole. If the real estate can be token, it can be split and purchased, which is more convenient for transaction
secondly, the token of physical assets is more concive to custody. Gold is easy to wear out and cause losses in physical transactions. However, after the token of physical assets, there is no need for physical transfer, which is more concive to the custody of physical assets.

9. The application scope of online token is generally limited to the consumer items of the issuing company, such as q-coin, which can only purchase value-added services (such as red diamond and yellow diamond) and online game consumption (such as flying car and dazzling dance) under Tencent
at present, virtual currency only has the value of speculation and collection, and there are not many real instries that accept virtual currency payment

10.

With the rapid increase in the number of bitcoin scams, there are easy ways to check whether a cheater has been reported to have used a bitcoin address, such as in a counterfeit bitcoin gift. You can also easily report any bitcoin address associated with the fraud

check the "bitcoin abuse" database

the number of bitcoin scams has been growing rapidly. Many of them ask people to send bitcoin to the address they provide. For example, the bitcoin giveaway scam promises to double the number of bitcoins you send. Last week's major twitter hacking, for example, included many highly regarded tweets about fake bitcoin gifts

before sending bitcoin to an address, you can check whether the address is reported as fraulent. Bitcoin abuse is a popular website with a public database of bitcoin addresses used by hackers and criminals. You can look up bitcoin addresses, report fraulent addresses, and monitor addresses reported by others

if the bitcoin address you searched on the website has been reported by others, the website will display information, such as the number of times the address was reported, the date and time of the last report, the total amount of bitcoin received, and the number of transactions. There will also be a link to blockchain info for you to track transactions at that address. The site will also display all reports filed at that address

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fraud alert website also provides some useful information about different types of encryption scams, such as pornography, blackmail software, Ponzi scheme, gifts, black net and theft. It provides some basic advice to prevent fraud, such as "don't trust anyone" and "verify.". The website lists the addresses of the top ten scams. According to the funds received, the most successful scams are Ponzi scheme, fake exchange and fake bitcoin gifts. YouTube also has a lot of bitcoin scams in videos and advertisements, especially fake gifts. The fraudsters claimed that celebrities such as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Virgin Galactic chairman chamath palihapitiya and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos were giving away bitcoin. The fake Elon Musk BTC giveaway is one of the most successful bitcoin scams, making millions of dollars

before twitter was hacked, whale alert reported on July 10 that it "can confirm that in the past four years, fraudsters have stolen only $38 million of bitcoin (excluding Ponzi scheme, which is a billion dollar instry)), of which $24 million is in the first six months of 2020."