Block chain technology investment of shipping enterprises
first, what is the most important thing about the team? There is a saying in the investment and financing instry that investment is investment. This is the golden rule. Investment can be used for anything
the project is very important, but it is not the most important. If the people are right, everything is right. So the first thing is to look at the team. The most important thing in the team is the founder
has the founder ever been proved to be successful? Anyone in the grassroots team can pull it, but what have you done before? No matter how much luck he has, he has at least some characteristics of a successful person
it doesn't matter if you look at the right person, even if the investment project turns yellow, because an excellent entrepreneur will keep forging ahead, constantly find new things to play with, and his character is reliable
on the contrary, if this point is not judged accurately, no matter how strong the tuyere is, after all, not everyone can succeed in this tuyere, and even if you succeed, you may not get much profit, because it is very easy to kick you out
so for Xiaosan, the only purpose of judging the team is to believe that he can do it successfully. As for whether the market performance in the later stage is excellent or not, you can't see it just by looking at him and PPT. Unless he is a star with many successful cases in front, then when you invest, the investment value has reached the level compatible with the risk, so you can guarantee that he can do it
Second, look at the community
many people look at the project, who's the platform and whether there are big names. Is this important? It's a little useful, but it's not that useful
it's useful in the early stage, because there are few people watching their platform. Fans will think, "Wow, teacher so and so's platform, it must be a good thing that he really recognizes." Later, I learned that some of them were for the sake of friends' face, and some of them were for the sake of collecting money, so it's not very useful in the back of the platform
what is really important? It's the community! The number of people in the community, the degree of recognition of the community, that is, the stickiness of the community
when you buy a currency, you want it to go up. Why? There are enough buyers to go up. Who will buy it? The fans of big names will not come to buy it. The real reason to raise the price of a currency is from the real community users who really want to have this token to use in the ecology and who are proud of holding more tokens
they have piled up the market value of this community with real money and silver, and also realized group profit. The more people they buy, the more profitable they will be, and even direct financial freedom is possible. So you must see how the community construction of this currency is
therefore, the public chain technology of blockchain project is a threshold, but what is higher than the technical threshold is an excellent enough community
Third, project valuation
the first is benchmarking, which is vertical comparison. This proct is similar to what someone is going to do. Let's check the market value of this proct and how much it is. It's a benchmark to see how many times there is room for growth
the second one is horizontal comparison. You can switch it between bull and bear to see where its valuation ranks and whether it is undervalued< Fourth, whether it is necessary to judge whether a blockchain project has prospects depends on whether the project must be transformed by blockchain
in most cases, we should choose those projects that have real innovation and solve practical problems, but this problem has not been completely solved, and its token has irreplaceable application value in the ecology, not just those projects that replace legal currency and bitcoin
the above four conditions are met: reliable team, enough community members, strong stickiness, low project valuation, large appreciation space, and huge irreplaceable ecological value. Not to mention all in, there is no big problem in long-term holding.
blockchain is a basic digital currency technology such as bitcoin, and it is also the only technology that has been applied to realize cash at present
now that digital currency trading has been closed in China, the vitality of the old brands who used to do well in China has been seriously damaged, and some units relying on overseas have risen, such as coin an, which is now the most popular.
1. Most people don't know what a blockchain is
compared with traditional stocks, real estate, bonds, gold, etc., blockchain assets are a very abstract and virtual form of assets. Blockchain assets represented by bitcoin are a very specialized computer language and program running mode, There is no credit endorsement from any country behind it, nor does any enterprise give it securitization income, which completely depends on the mutual consensus trust between strangers. In this case, although the operation logic of decentralization has been completed, its experiment is only in the initial stage and development stage, and participating in relevant investment is actually a kind of brave adventurer behavior
2. The price of blockchain assets fluctuates violently
because there is not much support from the use level of entities, many blockchain projects are completely dependent on community operation and market speculation, so it is difficult for investors to hold blockchain assets from the perspective of value investment, which leads to frequent capital flow, and the situation of price fluctuations has become a normal. A blockchain related token can soar by 500% in a day, or fall by 90% in a few hours. This kind of drastic price fluctuation is not affordable to ordinary investors
3. The uncertainty of national policies is too great
as an underlying technology, blockchain has basically accepted its value all over the world. However, as the "companion proct" of blockchain, there are still great disputes on national policies, and with the continuous increase of digital currency trading volume, the impact on the global financial market is also increasing. At present, the daily trading volume of the whole digital currency field exceeds US $60 billion, which is comparable to the trading volume of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, or the average daily trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. It is impossible to continue to operate outside the supervision. There is a very large regulatory game cycle, and the policies of various countries in this regard may be introced one after another, The impact on the market cannot be ignored
4. All kinds of blockchain projects are good and bad
blockchain technology is originally a very basic architecture technology. At present, e to the global pursuit of funds, many project parties who have nothing to do with blockchain begin to use the concept of blockchain to design procts, And can complete the writing of the white paper of blockchain in a very short time, and then raise market funds. In this case, the technical threshold of the whole blockchain has been lowered. Many companies without the strength and willingness of blockchain development have developed the concept of blockchain purely to obtain financial support, resulting in the flooding of projects. The gap between projects is widening, but ordinary investors are difficult to identify and easy to fall into the trap
5. Currency speculation is not equal to blockchain investment
at present, there are many views that blockchain and digital currency are a whole. You can't develop blockchain technology while suppressing digital currency. I agree with this logic, but currency speculation is not the same as blockchain investment in the real sense. The thing with real investment value must be the thing with scarce supply. If any digital currency is issued, it can represent the application value of the blockchain and bring some innovation to the society. Then any blockchain technology team that can issue digital currency can issue dozens of digital currencies and change its name in a very short time. Therefore, digital currency itself has little logical relationship with blockchain assets. Blockchain projects must be a market with obvious scarcity, but digital currency does not have great scarcity. This is like saying that any Internet company can develop a chat software similar to wechat, but the chat software itself does not have much value. The real value lies in how many people participate in the chat software. Digital money is just a chat software. The current situation is that everyone is frying the software, and few people are concerned about what is on the software. p>
6. Short term overheating, easy to be used by lawless elements
the particularity of the blockchain instry is that many of the ecology has become very financial, in the whole process of operation, capital will be very concentrated, and most of the links are related to capital. From raising funds by ICO to sending tokens to investors, to online trading of exchanges, and trading of tokens by users in exchanges, the whole process is almost full of financialization. If the practitioners are not professional enough, have no self-discipline ability, and lack of supervision, then every link may be used by criminals to manipulate the market, Obtain all kinds of illegal income
In order to catch up with the next round of financial technology and digital revolution, Japan holds a very open attitude towards bitcoin and other transactions. Digital currency transactions denominated in Japanese yen occupy half of the whole legal currency trading area in the world, Japan hopes to use digital currency to revive its financial competitiveness. The United States hopes to use mainstream financial markets, such as futures and options derivatives market, to tame bitcoin and make it another powerful tool for us dollar hegemony. And China is also trying to promote sovereign cryptocurrency, one of the important purposes is to promote the internationalization of RMB. The field of digital currency and blockchain assets is likely to become the next big country's game and contention point, which will virtually increase the systematic risk to investors. It's hard to know what unexpected policies appear behind this big country's game and what impact they will bring to the whole market8. The threat of quantum computer
blockchain generates a set of self-motivated system to ensure that it can run on its own under decentralized conditions. Most of them use asymmetric encryption, and use the corresponding public key to verify the transactions signed by the private key, so as to ensure that bitcoin and other blockchain assets can only be used by legitimate owners. But quantum computer can solve the problem of asymmetric encryption. Quantum computer can calculate the private key from the public key in a few minutes. After knowing all the private keys, people with quantum computer can spend bitcoin and other digital currency at will. Of course, when the quantum computer will come out is also a problem. The digital currency protocol is constantly adding new encryption standards, but the potential threat brought by the quantum computer has to attract the attention of investors
9. There is a possibility of a big reversal in the supply and demand level
the market value of the blockchain token market has hovered around us $trillion. Although OTC funds are still pouring in, the stability and growth rate of the capital inflow are questionable. The supply of encrypted digital currency is a very embarrassing thing. From the perspective of a single digital currency, the total amount is strictly limited. For example, there are only 21 million bitcoins, but the threshold of issuing encrypted digital currency is getting lower and lower. Anyone and any organization can issue encrypted digital currency anytime and anywhere, and the supply is almost unlimited. On the other hand, the increasing transaction cost is restraining the demand side. At present, investors in the transaction link need to pay the transaction fees in the exchange, and also pay the miners' fees when transferring money. If countries begin to tax digital currency transactions in the future, it means that this market will have to bear more operating costs without generating its own profitability, If coupled with the increasing supply level, the overall market supply and demand expectations may reverse in a moment
10. Lack of legal protection for blockchain assets
it is not uncommon that global digital currency exchanges have been "hacked", and in the process of all kinds of over-the-counter and on-the-spot transactions, fraud also occurs from time to time, and the legal protection for investors is very limited. Especially for domestic investors, once they are stolen or cheated because of trading digital currency, it is almost difficult to recover effectively. Due to the lack of intermediary guarantee from banks and other levels, the security of digital currency is entirely under their own responsibility. Although this is in line with the logic of self preservation of private property, it also brings greater uncertainty to the storage and transaction of digital currency assets. Before there is no complete legal system to protect the rights and interests of personal digital currency assets, the legal security of investment in blockchain related assets is a very serious problem
1. Changes in the operation mode of shipping supply chain. The traditional operation mode will change, and the functions of some organizations may also change. For example, the freight forwarding related organizations may be transformed into the organizations specialized in providing knowledge services and technical services. On the one hand, the decentralized operation mode of blockchain can not only bypass some intermediate institutions, but also simplify the operation process, improve the operation efficiency and save the operation cost. On the other hand, payment activities based on blockchain are programmable, that is, smart contracts. With smart contract, a large number of documents can be eliminated, and shipping can realize paperless operation, so as to achieve the purpose of cost saving. At the same time, through the smart contract, the fund flow between the nodes becomes safe and efficient, which may bypass the third-party institutions (such as banks) to complete the payment
2. Change the port and shipping electronic data exchange system. Firstly, blockchain will realize the exchange and application of international trade bill of lading and other electronic documents among the relevant subjects of trade and transportation; Second, the blockchain will realize the integration of "logistics, information flow and capital flow" in the international supply chain, and replace part of the logistics to form a stacking mode of online trading channels. When problems occur in the process of cargo transportation, the consignor, customs, carrier and insurance company can trace reliable electronic evidence, so as to clearly define the responsibilities of all parties and improve the processing efficiency of payment, settlement and claim settlement. In the future, all kinds of legal documents involved in international trade can adopt blockchain solutions similar to bill of lading information exchange to achieve safe, reliable and mutual recognition transmission
3. Change credit evaluation system and innovate financial services. The use of blockchain for complex transaction scenarios involving multiple transaction subjects should be meaningful. The important point of risk control is whether the transaction is real. Because the underlying data is connected, it can solve the pain point of supply chain finance instry. In the era of platform, if the credit related information of relevant transaction subjects is stored on the blockchain and can be easily obtained, then the point-to-point trusted transaction can be directly concted between transaction subjects, and the role of intermediary is closer to that of technical consultant. In fact, the application of blockchain technology is graally transforming from digital currency to "blockchain +" and from financial field to non-financial field such as Internet of things. In addition, after putting the capitalized shipping resources into the cloud in digital form through the blockchain, the transaction and financing will be more flexible, and the tracking and management of assets will be more convenient.
facts show that with the extensive practice of blockchain technology in the era of big data, in addition to the field of Internet finance, blockchain technology has been applied in the shipping instry and has shown great prospects
under the influence of blockchain technology, shipping e-commerce platform can also be regarded as a shipping exchange "moving online". Freight forwarders, shipping brokers, maritime law lawyers, assessors and other practitioners will bid farewell to the offices and small groups, become more focused, more detailed division of labor, higher quality of service freelancers, and continue to provide professional services or consultation for the port and shipping instry on the platform
standing at the new starting point of the platform era, blockchain provides a new mode for future economy and management, which is more in line with the characteristics of the platform era.