Why do enterprises issue digital currency
It's illegal
First, digital currency ICO is illegal in China.
in September 2017, the people's Bank of China issued an announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which formally determined that ICO is illegal financing without approval, and no organization or indivial is allowed to participate
later, it was announced on April 23, 2018 that the left and right digital currency ICO platforms had all withdrawn from the Chinese market, so the current ICO is illegal in China
Second, digital currency exchange is prohibited in China.
after announcing that ICO is an illegal financing activity, the central bank also listed services such as trading, exchange, pricing and information intermediary for virtual currency as prohibited items, which means that digital currency exchange is illegal in China
all trading platforms, including bitcoin China, okcion and fire coin, announced in 2018 that they would stop the RMB recharge business and graally shut down their trading platforms. As of April 2018, all digital currency exchanges had completely withdrawn from the Chinese market
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digital currency generally has a special digital currency exchange. We can buy the digital currency we need in our digital currency exchange
we can buy from our friends in addition to the exchange. If a friend has something, you can discuss and ask if he can sell it to you
we can buy our digital currency from traders nearby if we need more
we accept payment by digital currency payment service. If we open a physical store, we can support payment by digital currency, so we can also get our digital currency
finally, we can get digital currency by mining, and we can get digital currency by equipping mining machine to work mining, such as investing more hardware
digital currency trading: it can be traded only after RMB or digital currency is recharged in a third-party digital currency exchange
purchase of digital currency: no matter how many coins you buy, there is no limit. For example, if bitcoin is 100000 yuan, you can buy 0.0001, and there is no limit on how many coins you can buy or sell
digital currency trading time: 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, can be traded
according to the announcement on preventing the financing risks of token issuance jointly issued by the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions, the announcement points out that any so-called token financing trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal tender and token and "virtual currency", and shall not buy or sell tokens or "virtual currency" as a central counter party, It is not allowed to provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or "virtual currency"
the announcement points out that token issuance financing refers to the so-called "virtual currency" raised from investors through the illegal sale and circulation of tokens. In essence, it is an unauthorized illegal public financing behavior, suspected of illegal sale of token bills, illegal issuance of securities, illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal criminal activities<
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the central bank said that the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency:
the central bank's gold and silver Bureau issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that recently, indivial enterprises falsely used the name of the central bank and labeled relevant digital procts as "authorized issuance of the people's Bank of China", Or they falsely claim that the central bank's digital currency promotion team is trying to deceive the public and make huge profits
the central bank said that the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The central bank also suggested that the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
in fact, virtual currencies such as bitcoin and lightcoin are representatives of the so-called digital currency. The central bank said in 2016 that it was studying China's legal digital currency. Yao Qian, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the people's Bank of China, previously told the media that the prototype scheme for the central bank to issue legal digital currency has completed two rounds of revision, and is expected to be tested in relatively closed application scenarios such as the bill market in the future, but there is no clear timetable for its launch
reference source: Xinhuanet - has anyone issued digital currency in the name of the central bank
source of reference: China Securities Regulatory Commission - Announcement on preventing financing risks of token issuance
Currencies like foreign exchange, which are called stocks, are acceptable to more people
(1) the monetary gold and silver Bureau of the people's Bank of China (PBOC) issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that indivial enterprises falsely use the name of the PBOC to label relevant digital procts as "authorized by the people's Bank of China", or falsely claim that the central bank's digital currency promotion team, in an attempt to deceive the public and take the opportunity to make huge profits
(2) the central bank said that at present, the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
(3) the central bank emphasizes that the legal tender of China is RMB. RMB shall be uniformly printed and issued by the people's Bank of China. No unit or indivial may refuse to pay all public and private debts within the territory of China in RMB. The general public should establish a correct concept of currency, take good care of RMB and jointly maintain the normal circulation order of RMB.
blockchain has been developing for some time now. During this period, people's cognition of blockchain has experienced rapid change
the essence of blockchain is technology? The essence should be traced back until it can not be traced further. Only then can we call it the essence. The essence of blockchain is a technology. Back to the original point of blockchain, back to the time when bitcoin was just born, the problem it wanted to solve was the Byzantine general problem. From a professional point of view, it was to solve the problem of how to achieve consistency in a distributed environment. Blockchain is a combination of many technologies. It is naturally suitable for multi-party cooperation and can provide a trusted environment for multi-party cooperation
Application of blockchain's tamper proof feature
technical principle of bitcoin P2P network
bitcoin is a P2P computer network, and each network node stores all transaction records on the network. Generally speaking, any information recorded in a node plus a number of backup can be. All the transaction records of the network are stored on each node. As a result, the transaction records can be seen by each node, and each node cannot modify the transaction records independently. Therefore, a set of open and transparent transaction records is formed
It's illegal
the central bank indicated that it has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency
In addition, the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
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virtual currency is the electronization of illegal currency, and its original issuer is not the central bank. This kind of virtual currency is mainly limited to circulation in a specific virtual environment. Digital currency can be used for real goods and services transactions, but only the digital currency issued by the state is legal digital currency
in 2013, the central bank, together with five ministries and commissions, issued the notice on prevention of bitcoin risks, which clearly defined non legal digital currencies such as bitcoin as virtual commodities, which do not exist in the form of currency and legal currency