The economic mechanism of bitcoin blockchain includes

1. blockchain has developed in five stages
1. Germination stage: the real germination stage of blockchain was from 2007 to 2009. In 2008, a Japanese American with the pseudonym of Nakamoto first expounded a new fantasy report on electronic money in the form of a synonym on the cryptography discussion group, and bitcoin came out. As early as 2007, Nakamoto began to explore a series of new technologies to create a new currency. On October 31, 2008, bitcoin white paper was released, and on January 3, 2009, bitcoin system officially began to operate
the main technologies supporting bitcoin system include hash function, distributed ledger, blockchain and asymmetric encryption; It can be seen that these technologies build the initial version of the blockchain, and it can also be said that the blockchain is the underlying technology of bitcoin. During the three years from 2007 to 2009, bitcoin was an experimental stage in which a very small number of people participated, and the real commercial activities had not really started
2. "Geek" niche stage: here, "geek" refers to people who are crazy about Internet technology and take technological innovation as fashion and life. On February 6, 2010, the first exchange of bitcoin appeared. On May 22 of the same year, someone bought two hamburgers with 10000 bitcoins. On July 17 of the same year, the exchange Mt. GOx was established, marking the official inflow of bitcoin into the market. Nevertheless, the only people who can really understand and enter the market to participate in bitcoin trading are geeks who are keen on Internet technology. They discuss bitcoin technology on the forum, mine for bitcoin on their own computers, and then buy and sell bitcoin on Mt. GOx. Now these geeks have become billionaires
3. Market brewing stage: the price of bitcoin was $13 at the beginning of 2013, but on March 18 of the same year, the government of Cyprus closed the bank and stock market e to the financial crisis, which made the price of bitcoin soar, and the highest price rose to $266 in April. On August 20 of the same year, the German government confirmed the currency status of bitcoin. On October 14, China network announced the opening of bitcoin payment channel. In November, the US Senate hearing also confirmed the legitimacy of bitcoin. On November 19, the price of bitcoin rose to US $1242, forming a new high. Nevertheless, the foundation for blockchain to enter the mainstream social economy is not yet available, and the soaring price of bitcoin is only e to over optimistic expectations. The containment of China's banking system, the collapse of Mt. GOx and other events made the price of bitcoin continue to fall. At the beginning of 2015, the price of bitcoin has dropped below $200. From 2013 to the beginning of 2015, the public began to understand bitcoin and blockchain
4. The mainstream period of blockchain: on June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom left the European Union, the fifth nuclear test of North Korea in September, Trump's election in November and other events, the uncertainty of the world's mainstream economy led to the recovery of bitcoin with the function of risk aversion. The market demand was large, and the increase of trading volume made the price of bitcoin soar from $400 in 2016 to $20000 in 2017, The wealth effect of bitcoin and the transaction overflow caused by network congestion of bitcoin have led to the outbreak of other series of virtual currencies, as well as a variety of blockchain applications, resulting in the emergence of a large number of blockchain assets that are 100 times, even 1000 times and 10000 times, which has aroused the crazy pursuit of the world, Subsequently, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched bitcoin futures trading, marking that bitcoin has officially entered the mainstream investment proct series, and bitcoin and blockchain have entered the global attention
5. Instry landing stage: after the market frenzy in 2017, the virtual currency and blockchain have been adjusted in terms of market, supervision, cognition, etc. in 2018, returning to rationality. In 2017, many blockchain projects that follow the blockchain technology will graally die out with the cooling of the market, and the projects with real blockchain applications will be initially implemented. 2018 is not only the first year of the blockchain, but also a gold rush period for the blockchain. After the waves wash away the sand, what remains is relatively good gold
from the perspective of the history of blockchain development, blockchain technology is not yet mature and is currently in the growth period. The specific practical application of blockchain is only used in the financial field. It still needs a long way to go to apply blockchain from other instries. However, we should grasp the trend of blockchain and actively learn from the new field of blockchain.

2. Principle of blockchain: decentralized distributed accounting system
the core of blockchain technology is that all participating nodes jointly maintain the transaction and database, which makes the transaction based on the principle of cryptography rather than trust, so that any agreed parties can directly carry out payment transactions without the participation of a third party< br />?
technically, a block is a data structure for recording transactions, reflecting the capital flow of a transaction. In the system, the blocks of the transactions that have been reached are connected together to form a main chain, and all the nodes participating in the calculation record the main chain or part of the main chain. A block contains the following three parts: transaction information, hash formed by the previous block, and random number. Transaction information is the task data carried by the block, including the private keys of both parties, the number of transactions, the digital signature of electronic currency, etc; The hash hash formed by the previous block is used to connect the blocks and realize the sequence of past transactions; Random number is the core of the transaction. All miners compete to calculate the answer of the random number. The node that gets the answer the fastest generates a new block and broadcasts it to all nodes for updating, so as to complete a transaction

1.1 what is a blockchain

blockchain is a technical solution to collectively maintain a reliable database through centralization and de trust in the past. This technical solution mainly allows any number of nodes in the participating system to generate a series of data blocks by using cryptographic methods. Each data block contains all the information exchange data of the system in a certain period of time, and generates a data fingerprint to verify the validity of its information and link to the next database block< br />?
generally speaking, blockchain technology refers to a way for the whole people to participate in bookkeeping. There is a database behind all the systems, that is, a big ledger. So it's very important who keeps this account book. At present, whose system is responsible for bookkeeping, the account book of each bank is the account book of each bank, and the account book of each bank is the account book of Ali. But now in the blockchain system, everyone in the system can have the opportunity to participate in bookkeeping. If there are new transaction data changes in a certain period of time, everyone in the system can make bookkeeping. The system will judge the fastest and best bookkeeper in this period, write the recorded content into the account book, and send the content of the account book to all other people in the system for backup. In this way, everyone in the system has a complete account book. As a result, the data becomes very secure. Tamperers need to modify more than half of the system node data at the same time to truly tamper with the data. The cost of such tampering is so high that it is almost impossible. For example, bitcoin has been running for more than seven years, and countless hackers around the world have tried to attack bitcoin, but so far there have been no trading errors. It can be considered that bitcoin blockchain has been proved to be a safe and reliable system< br />?

1.2 why is there blockchain innovation

human beings need to communicate in the process of activities, and communication is based on information. In the past, information circulation was not convenient enough to meet the information needs of market participants, so the intermediary and center were born. This centralized system has the problems of high cost, low efficiency, scattered value, "information island" and unsafe data storage. However, e to technical and environmental factors, this system still continues to operate for many years until the emergence of the Internet. The starting point of the first generation Internet is TCP / IP protocol, which is to implement the open code of peer-to-peer transmission of information in a unified format of all nodes on the network, and to program, protocol and execute the basic values of freedom and equality needed by the global unified market. Internet eliminates the middle chain of low value and high cost, and realizes the low cost and high efficiency of global information transmission by decentralization< br />?< However, the first generation Internet did not solve the credit problem of information. The activities that can be decentralized on the Internet must be those that do not need credit endorsement, and those that need credit guarantee must be those that are centralized and participated by third-party intermediaries. As a result, Internet technology, which is unable to establish global credit, has encountered great obstacles in its progress - people can not participate in any value exchange activities on the Internet in a decentralized way. In order to realize value exchange, people still need the third-party intermediary (such as bank, clearing, exchange) based on credit. There are still some problems in the global centralized credit system, such as high operating cost, low efficiency and vulnerability to attack. For example, the legal currencies of different countries have different credit values and different clearing systems, which increase the cost of Global trade< br />?
therefore, what the second generation Internet must break through is: how to decentralize the establishment of global credit? So that the value transfer is also low-cost and efficient. We need to create a kind of technology in the Internet, which can also engage in value exchange activities on the premise that people can't trust each other, so as to achieve real decentralization and go to the third-party intermediary, and realize the transformation from information internet to value Internet

1.3 application of blockchain

Bubi blockchain has been applied to equity, supply chain, points and other fields, and is carrying out experiments and application tests with exchanges and banks
as an integral application on Bubi blockchain, Shubei Hebao has been launched recently, which is a good demonstration for the landing application of blockchain technology in various instries

1.4 why the financial instry needs blockchain

trust is the foundation of the financial instry. In order to maintain trust, the development of the financial instry has spawned a large number of high-cost, low-efficiency, single point of failure intermediaries, including trusteeship, third-party payment, notaries, banks, exchanges and so on. Blockchain technology uses new encryption authentication technology and decentralized consensus mechanism to maintain a complete, distributed and tamperable account book, so that participants can ensure the security of funds and information through a unified account book system without mutual recognition and trust. This is of great significance to finance. Therefore, global financial giants are exploring blockchain applications one after another. On the one hand, this is to prevent the risk of being subverted; on the other hand, it is also "for our own use" to improve efficiency and rece costs, so as to consolidate, optimize and expand the existing power< br />?
first, blockchain can rece trust risk. Blockchain technology has the characteristics of open source and transparency. The participants of the system can know the operation rules of the system, verify the authenticity and integrity of the account book content and account book construction history, and ensure that the transaction history is reliable and has not been tampered with, which is equivalent to improving the accountability of the system and recing the trust risk of the system. For example, blockchain can avoid the current Internet Financial P2P running, fraud and other events< br />?
secondly, blockchain can improve the efficiency of payment, transaction and settlement. On the blockchain, the process of transaction confirmation is the process of clearing, settlement and auditing. Blockchain uses distributed accounting, all transactions are displayed in real time on a spreadsheet similar to global sharing, real-time clearing, and efficiency is greatly improved. For example, the U.S. securities settlement system is t + 3, but the blockchain can improve the efficiency to the minute level, which can rece the settlement risk by 99%, thus effectively recing the cost of capital and systemic risk< br />?
thirdly, blockchain can rece operating costs. Financial business systems and back office work are often faced with long processes and multiple links. Nowadays, no matter visa, master or all of them operate in a centralized way, money transfer has to go through a third party, which makes the cost of cross-border transaction, currency exchange rate, internal accounting and time cost too high, and brings risks to capital. Blockchain can simplify and automate the lengthy financial service process, rece the interaction between foreground and background, and save a lot of human and material resources, which is of great significance to optimize the financial business process and improve the financial competitiveness. The Bank of Spain believes that by 2022, blockchain technology will help the financial instry rece its bookkeeping costs by $20 billion< br />?
fourthly, blockchain can effectively prevent failures and attacks. The traditional financial model takes the exchange or bank as the center. Once the center fails or is attacked, the whole network may be paralyzed and the transaction will be suspended. The blockchain is supported by many distributed nodes and computer servers on the point-to-point network. The problems of any part will not affect the overall operation, and each node keeps a of the blockchain data. Therefore, the built-in business continuity of blockchain has high reliability and fault tolerance< br />?
fifthly, blockchain can improve the level of automation. Since all files or assets can be represented in the form of codes or ledgers, smart contracts and automatic transactions can be realized on the blockchain by setting the data processing program on the blockchain. For example, a smart contract can write a set of financial terms into the agreement to ensure the automatic execution and default payment of the contract< br />?
sixth, blockchain can meet regulatory and audit requirements. The records stored on the blockchain are transparent, traceable and unchangeable. Any record, once written to the blockchain, is permanent and cannot be tampered with. Any transaction between two parties can be tracked and inquired< br />?
in addition to the above positive effects on existing systems and business models, blockchain can also drive the birth of new business models. On the one hand, the characteristics of blockchain technology enable it to achieve some business models that are difficult to achieve in the centralized mode. On the other hand, blockchain greatly encourages the innovation and cooperation of the whole society through the opening and cooperation of source code. Of course, there will be a lot of problems and challenges in the application of blockchain in finance. This paper also thinks about the specific application

the working principle of blockchain technology is not difficult to understand. If we focus on the application research of specific blockchain technology, we can find that the working principle of this blockchain technology is ubiquitous.

3. With the advent of bitcoin, a new technology, blockchain, has come into the public view. What is the relationship between bitcoin and blockchain? The simplest understanding is: blockchain is the underlying technology of bitcoin, and bitcoin is the first generation application of blockchain. Therefore, we often see such a saying that "bitcoin represents the era of blockchain 1.0"

bitcoin is regarded as the first generation application of blockchain technology and the most thorough application of its code testing. However, without bitcoin, there might not be so many people who knew about blockchain now. It can be said that bitcoin has greatly improved the "exposure" of blockchain technology

later, people graally found that the application value of blockchain is far more than bitcoin, but can be applied to many instries to solve the pain points of many instries; The idea of blockchain can also provide a lot of reference for the financial field, which is the real reason for the outbreak of blockchain.