Management of virtual money pyramid selling in 2019
(1) at present, there is no regulation to regulate the trading platform, but the trading platform should also fulfill the audit obligation. For example, when online trading various network virtual currencies, it should audit whether the currency is a network virtual currency based on blockchain technology
(2) if the trading platform knows that the online trading currency is suspected of MLM, but in order to collect Commission, it also provides trading services for the currency and promotes its development, once the currency is identified as MLM, the trading platform may have to bear certain legal liabilities
(3) at the same time, a large number of customers' funds are stored in the accounts of virtual currency trading institutions. However, all online virtual currency trading institutions are not qualified to absorb public funds, which makes trading institutions face the potential risk of illegal fund-raising
the 2017 version of the guide to the identification of internet pyramid selling (hereinafter referred to as the guide) lists several differences between virtual currency and pyramid selling currency:
(1) from the perspective of issuing mode, virtual currency does not rely on specific monetary institutions, it is a decentralized issuing mode according to specific algorithms; The MLM currency is mainly issued by a certain institution, and the profit is made by pulling the head
(2) from the perspective of transaction mode, virtual currency is a kind of sporadic transaction spontaneously formed by the market. After the scale is formed, the transaction is graally completed by a third party establishing an exchange, while MLM currency is issued by an institution and traded on its own platform
(3) from the perspective of implementation, virtual currency itself is an open source program, while the open source of MLM currency is completely ing other people's open source code, and there is no use of open source code to build programs, which is essentially controlled by the website as Q coin.
Virtual currency is not MLM
virtual currency refers to non real currency. Well known virtual currencies, such as online currency of Internet company, QQ currency of Tencent company, q-point, voucher of Shanda company, micro currency launched by Sina, chivalrous Yuanbao, silver pattern. Digital currencies include bitcoin, Wright coin, infinite coin, quark coin, zeta coin, barbecue coin, penny coin, invisible gold bar, red coin and prime currency. At present, hundreds of digital currencies are issued all over the world
< H2 > development materials:
network virtual currency can be roughly divided into
the first category is the familiar game currency. In the era of stand-alone games, the protagonist accumulates money by knocking down the enemy, entering the gambling house to win money, and using these to buy Herbs and equipment, but it can only be used in his own game console. At that time, there was no "market" between players. Since the establishment of Internet portal and community, the realization of game networking, virtual currency has a "financial market", players can trade game currency
the second type is the special currency issued by the portal website or instant messaging service provider, which is used to purchase the services in the website. The most widely used is Tencent's q-coin, which can be used to purchase membership, QQ show and other value-added services
the third kind of virtual currency on the Internet, such as bitcoin and Wright currency. Bitcoin is an electronic currency proced by open-source P2P software. Some people also translate bitcoin as "bitcoin", which is a kind of network virtual currency. It is mainly used for Internet financial investment, and can also be directly used in daily life as a new currency
< H2 > reference: virtual currency networkThe 60 kinds of pyramid selling virtual currencies broadcast by CCTV news include MBI, m3, Diablo, Asian currency, star currency, Jinyuan shopping alliance e-currency, Changjiang international virtual currency, qileba, micro TV media e-currency, bonus point currency, virtual gold coin, HGC, COA, LFG, Sri, bismall, ahkcap, CPF, Yifen, K currency, R currency, Baichuan currency, K Bao, Zhongfu Tongbao, Hongtong currency, etc Raines e-money
Global BlackRock No.1, Glasberg, BCI, m, wing, EV, performance, FIS, u, ES, zangbao performance, huiai e-money, jianyipan e-money, subsidy, hftag, Kaixin compound interest, kuailinian virtual currency, Shihua currency, ente currency, CPM, Kara currency and supreme currency
there are at least 65 kinds of "virtual currency" with different names, such as Wuhua union virtual currency, Meisheng e, Zhonghua currency, Mimi virtual currency, FIS, world Yunlian cloud currency, Liwu currency, Vicat currency, mark currency, Shanxin currency, Wuji currency, ATC, IPC, central currency, Wuxing currency, huiai currency and nautical currency
< H2 > extended information:
in the 141 cases of virtual currency pyramid selling found on China's judicial documents, the number of such criminal cases is increasing year by year. In 2014, the court ruled 5 cases, and then increased by multiple, to 62 cases in 2017. According to the judgment documents, among the above-mentioned virtual currency pyramid schemes, "Vicat" has the highest amount of money involved, with a total of 7 billion, and its global membership number is 10770000, with the largest number
in terms of the development scale of MLM organizations in China, "cloud coin" (also known as world UnionPay and world cloud Alliance Network MLM platform) has the largest number of MLM organizations (4391449); Second, the "dark money" pyramid marketing organization has developed more than 3.4 million members
source of reference: phoenix.com - virtual money pyramid scheme: 65 kinds of pyramid schemes cheat 10 million people, over 10 billion
although the management of virtual currency is difficult, it can be regulated and punished according to the banking law, criminal law and other relevant laws and regulations
for example, the people's Bank of China stipulates that financial institutions and Payment institutions are not allowed to handle settlement for virtual currency, so there is no trading market for virtual currency in China. However, although there is no settlement market in China, virtual currency may choose to settle overseas, because virtual currency is attached to the Internet and can settle in any country
and it will be more difficult to manage by building a virtual currency trading platform in a foreign website for people to trade. In China, there are also some third-party payment institutions that secretly provide settlement services for virtual currency, which brings some difficulties to supervision
at present, formal payment and settlement institutions are not allowed to provide settlement channels for virtual currency transactions, but informal institutions may still provide settlement services secretly. Even if the informal institutions are cleaned up, some people may choose to go abroad to carry out similar acts
extended information:
for the supervision of virtual currency, we should focus on preventing any form of virtual currency from replacing the function of RMB and engaging in illegal acts through virtual currency, that is, strengthening the supervision of the function and use of virtual currency. We should focus on whether virtual currency is used as currency, not only from the object form of currency to see whether it belongs to forgery and alteration of RMB
any object exercising monetary function within the territory of the people's Republic of China violates the relevant provisions of the law of the people's Bank of China. The virtual currency in the form of code, as long as it is used as currency, is equivalent to counterfeit currency in nature. It can be supervised and punished according to the law of the people's Bank of China and the criminal law
source of reference: People's Daily - experts in cracking down on virtual currency transactions in many places: key regulatory functions
in view of the possible risks of virtual currency, many international organizations and central banks have responded publicly to the supervision of virtual currency system. These responses can be roughly divided into four categories: warning and risk warning, supervision and registration permission, legislative norms, and explicit prohibition
(1) warning and risk warning
some central banks and regulators have issued risk warnings against the special currency and virtual currency system. The federal financial regulatory authority of Germany, the Bank of France, the central banks of the Netherlands and Belgium have issued public warnings against the possible money laundering and terrorist financing caused by the use of bitcoin. In the report released at the end of 2013, the European Banking authority (EBA) warned consumers of many risks of virtual currency, such as exchange loss, e-wallet theft, unprotected payment, price fluctuation and so on. Although Spain did not have a similar risk warning, it issued a timely information announcement related to virtual currency
(2) supervision and registration license
generally speaking, international organizations believe that the supervision of virtual currency should find a balance between risk prevention and innovation promotion. Since 2012, Sweden has required transactions related to virtual currency to be registered with financial regulators. Other countries pay attention to qualification supervision, so as to make it indirectly meet the requirements of prudential supervision. In other countries, the regulation mainly focuses on the business model of virtual currency transaction. The financial prudential regulatory authority of France regards the provision of bitcoin circulation and trading services and the act of earning funds in the process as a payment service and requires the authorization of the government. In addition, some countries focus on the intermediary institutions related to virtual currency. The German federal financial regulatory agency and Danish regulators believe that the provision of intermediary services for virtual currency needs to be authorized< (3) legislative norms
at present, some countries have proposed legislation to regulate virtual currency transactions. Canada plans to legislate to allow the government to supervise the transaction of bitcoin, and to include the transaction of more than US $10000 into the scope of suspicious supervision. The United States hopes to adjust the relevant legal structure should be compared with the development of the special currency. In order to make the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) applicable in the context of network, the financial crime enforcement network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the explanatory guidance on the behavior and subject definition of private generation, holding, distribution, trading, acceptance and transmission of virtual currency in 2013. The European central bank stressed that it should strengthen international cooperation under the existing legal framework, and regulate virtual currency from the European and global level under the existing legal framework. More countries believe that bitcoin is not a currency in circulation, has no legal status, and does not meet the definition of financial instruments, such as Finland, Sweden, Malaysia and Indonesia
(4) it is forbidden
in some countries, bitcoin related transactions are prohibited. In December 2013, the people's Bank of China banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin, which was subsequently extended to payment service providers. The central banks of Thailand and Indonesia share the same attitude. The circulation of anonymous internet currency (including bitcoin) is prohibited by the Russian judicial inspection department as a substitute for currency. The Central Bank of Russia has earlier included the provision of bitcoin services in the scope of suspicious transaction monitoring. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has banned the issue of unregistered shares in exchange for bitcoin, and unregistered online securities trading activities in virtual currency.
of course, virtual currencies are not all pyramid schemes, such as bitcoin, lightcoin, decent and so on.
1. Cultural and entertainment chain: the cultural and entertainment chain takes advantage of the characteristics of blockchain, such as decentralization, openness, information tampering, and so on. It claims to build an "IP asset exchange", issue its own token for a high-quality IP, solve the problems of realization, protection, and management of the cultural and creative IP instry, and build a weakly centralized, traceable, digital, and capitalized cultural and creative instry ecosystem. But in fact, when they enter their community, the nature of the swindler will be exposed. They promise to go to the major exchanges such as Shanghuo coin, promise that the opening price will not be less than 2 times of earnings, promise that they will only go up but not go down, promise that they will not break, promise that they will not attract funds, promise to carry out pull propaganda, and hope to raise the vigilance
2. Ant chain (antc): ant chain is antc. It claims to be the token of decentralized digital asset trading system, and publicizes a of antc white paper in various wechat and QQ groups. Many people mistakenly believe that antc is raising money for fraud, There is no investment value at all
the "genuine" ant chain, which has been replaced by an impostor, is a company committed to building an intelligent transportation network through digital assets and blockchain ecosystem. It is located in Boston, USA. however, the company has only launched the ant bike
3. Sharing chain Mall: sharing chain is known as an intelligent, credible, open and decentralized credit data value platform based on sharing economy. It is the underlying structure based on sharing economy built by blockchain technology. As long as consumers shop in the mall, they can get the special benefits of the mall
4. Posevo (POF): posevo environmental protection token, which has been publicized since January 2018, is called POF for short. It has issued 700 million pieces in constant volume and will never be added. The issuing period is 4 years. The development source code is Ethereum erc-20, and the original issuing unit price is 1 RMB / piece. Take static income as an example: angel investment of 1000-20000 yuan. Return 3% of the investment amount every day, ending with a total of 3 times of the investment amount. For example, if the investment is 1000 yuan, return 3% of the investment amount every day = 30 yuan, return 100 days in total, and return 3000 yuan to the investor. It is the pyramid selling mode. After investigation, mesworth token did not use any blockchain technology, nor did it log on to any exchange as mentioned in the publicity