User growth in blockchain industry
in the Internet era, there is a database behind every system. This database can be regarded as a large account book. In the past, the person who maintained the system was responsible for managing the database and recording the user's behavior, that is, bookkeeping. However, the blockchain is "decentralized", which allows every member of the system to participate in it, not only everyone bookkeeping, but also through links, Everyone can have a complete account book
"blockchain is essentially a collective recording mode. What's special is that it adopts a set of techniques in an ingenious way to realize the authenticity and credibility of the recorded results, which is difficult to destroy and tamper with. " Zhang Xiaorong said, "first, everyone has the right to record and authenticate with each other to distinguish the true from the false, which is called consensus mechanism; Second, no one can tamper with the records, because there are cryptographic signatures; Third, everyone has a , so even if some account books are damaged, the whole will not be affected. This is called distributed storage. The information recorded in this way is presented in block mode according to the time chain, so it is called blockchain. "
various cryptocurrencies represented by bitcoin are originally an application of blockchain technology, which can be described as blockchain version 1.0. However, around 2014, the instry began to realize the important value of blockchain technology. Blockchain graally separated from digital currency and applied to various economic and social fields other than digital currency
it has broad application prospects
blockchain technology is considered as a disruptive innovation after steam engine, electric power and Internet. If the steam engine and electricity liberate the proctivity, and the Internet has changed the way of information transmission, the blockchain, as a machine for building trust, may change the way of value transmission
for example, in the financial field, the cost of reconciliation, clearing and settlement between financial institutions, especially cross-border financial institutions, has always been very high, and there are complex manual processes. The application of blockchain technology can help rece the cost of reconciliation and dispute resolution between financial institutions, and significantly improve the processing speed and efficiency of payment business, It also makes small cross-border payments possible. In December 2017, China Merchants Bank completed the RMB position transfer business from Hongkong Wing Lung Bank to Shenzhen Branch of Wing Lung Bank. This is the world's first interbank cross-border RMB clearing business based on blockchain technology
in addition, according to the white paper 2016 on China's blockchain technology and application development issued by the Ministry of instry and information technology of China, the application of blockchain has been extended to medical and health, ecation, charity, social management and other fields. Taking the cultural instry as an example, the low cost of reproction, the high cost of safeguarding rights, and the difficulty of providing evidence make the protection of intellectual property rights a pain point for the instry. With blockchain, the proction, dissemination and transaction records of cultural procts are true, transparent and reliable, and the problem can be solved
Zhang Xiaorong said that blockchain technology has solved two major problems in the era of Digital Economy: one is the visible flow direction, and the other is zero trust cost. In the past, the circulation of physical paper money was invisible, but the flow of all digital assets had a "chain" to check. Yang Yanchao, a researcher at the intellectual property center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that the biggest advantage of blockchain is that it has truly completed the credit construction in an anonymous society, bringing new opportunities to many fields, thus making various innovative applications possible
there is a long way to go in the future development
in terms of technology promotion, there is no big barrier to blockchain, which has been confirmed in the global practice of bitcoin, and its main resistance comes from the obstacles in concept and implementation
"on the one hand, the society may be very concerned about the" naked "state in the blockchain. Blockchain has built a "Skynet" for the commercial society. The company's economic activities are all recorded, so there is no secret to speak of. In this way, some business strategies may not be implemented under the blockchain. "
"on the other hand, the current legal system lags behind the development of information technology, so how to put the emerging blockchain technology under the legal supervision needs to be studied." Duan Yongchao said
the core of blockchain is decentralization, which will have an impact on the long-standing central management model. In addition to the law, how to establish a regulatory environment that can promote the application of blockchain technology, so that the technology can benefit the society and not be used to do evil, is also an urgent problem to be solved.
Because the blockchain technology is not mature at this stage, and the infrastructure is not perfect, many applications are limited, and the overall application is still in a very early stage
First of all, the main function of blockchain is to store information. Any information that needs to be saved can be written to or read from the blockchain, so it is a database. Secondly, anyone can set up a server and join the blockchain network to become a node. In the world of blockchain, there is no central node (decentralization). Every node is equal and keeps the whole database. You can write / read data to any node, because all nodes will be synchronized in the end to ensure the consistency of the blockchaindefinition of blockchain
according to the definition in the white paper on blockchain (2019) issued by China Academy of information technology, blockchain is an accounting technology that is jointly maintained by multiple parties, uses cryptography to ensure the security of transmission and access, and can realize consistent data storage, difficult to usurp and prevent repudiation; In the people's Bank of China's "financial distributed ledger technology security specification", it is defined that distributed ledger technology is a distributed infrastructure and computing paradigm formed by the high integration of cryptographic algorithm, consensus mechanism, point-to-point communication protocol, distributed storage and other core technology systems
blockchain technology is a decentralized way to collectively maintain the trusted database technology, which has the characteristics of decentralization, tamper proof and highly scalable. It is rapidly integrating with the new generation of information technology such as big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and 5g, and has been applied to various important fields such as government affairs, medical care, public charity and judicial governance, It is expected to promote human from the era of information internet to the era of value Internet
blockchain development stage
in the past decade, blockchain technology has been continuously upgraded, and the instry divides its evolution and development process into three stages, which are not realized in turn, but a process of common development and mutual promotion
in 2020, the blockchain instry will be further standardized
in 2020, China's blockchain policy will continue to be favorable, the standards and specifications will be more perfect, the instrial scale will continue to grow, the technology will continue to innovate and develop, and the application demonstration effect in key fields will accelerate. At the same time, according to the problems existing in the development of China's blockchain in 2019, CCID blockchain Research Institute puts forward six suggestions: accelerating the formulation of top-level design, establishing and improving the regulatory system, accelerating the innovation and development of core technologies, promoting the third-party evaluation and certification, strengthening the cultivation of professional talents, and accelerating the implementation of applications in various fields
- the above data comes from the analysis report of China's blockchain instry market outlook and investment strategic planning of foresight Instry Research Institute
the blockchain instry is on the eve of the application outbreak
as a kind of underlying technology, with the support of policy direction, blockchain is attracting more and more exploration of application landing. At the recent 2019 future business ecological link conference, Zhu Youping, deputy secretary of the general Party branch of China economic network management center of the state information center, pointed out that after 11 years of trial and error, the technology of blockchain has basically been commercially available, and the instry is now on the eve of application explosion
Wu Xiaochuan, a senior expert in Zhongan technology's blockchain development, told the 21st century business reporter that the biggest difficulty in the current blockchain landing instry is how to map the physical world and the blockchain world one by one, which needs multi-disciplinary joint efforts to solve. Internet of things technology is an important part of it. With the blessing of 5g, cloud computing and other technologies, it will bring more complement and support to the implementation and application of blockchain technology in the futureaccording to the prediction of tractica, the analysis organization, the global enterprise blockchain market will reach US $20.3 billion by 2025
key node of technology and standard promotion
compared with other underlying technologies, blockchain has also experienced a relatively tortuous development process, and there is still a way to go in terms of integration with multiple technologies and setting of its own standards
Zhang Xiaojun, head of Huawei's blockchain, pointed out in his speech at the conference that today's blockchain technology is more like the development stage of the Internet from 2002 to 2003. If the relevant standards of blockchain can be mature in 2020, including cross chain standards, storage standards and standard data format storage, large-scale commercial use will be accelerated in 2021
China's blockchain instry is still in its infancy, but with the continuous support of national policies, the continuous progress of instry technology and the increasing demand of downstream applications, China's blockchain instry is expected to continue to maintain high-speed growth. In 2011, the market scale of China's blockchain instry was less than 6 million yuan. By 2018, the market scale of China's blockchain instry has grown to 67 million yuan, maintaining a rapid growth rate of more than 80%. It is estimated that in 2022, driven by policy support and downstream demand, the market scale of China's blockchain instry is expected to exceed 450 million yuan
market size statistics and growth forecast of China's blockchain instry from 2015 to 2022 Zhu Youping pointed out to the reporter of the 21st century economic report that with the technical blessing of 5g and even future quantum computing, these weaknesses will be quickly made up
for more data sources and analysis, please refer to the in depth analysis report on business model innovation and investment opportunities of China's blockchain instry published by foresight Instry Research Institute. Meanwhile, foresight Instry Research Institute also provides instrial big data, instrial planning, instrial declaration, instrial park planning, instrial investment promotion and other solutions
blockchain is a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies. Blockchain is an important concept of bitcoin. It is essentially a decentralized database. At the same time, as the underlying technology of bitcoin, it is a series of data blocks generated by using cryptographic methods. Each data block contains a batch of information about bitcoin network transactions, Used to verify the validity of its information (anti-counterfeiting) and generate the next block. In fact, the original English version of bitcoin white paper [1] does not use the word blockchain, but uses the word chain of blocks. In the earliest Chinese translation of bitcoin white paper [2], chain of blocks was translated into blockchain. This is the earliest time when the Chinese word "blockchain" appeared.