Virtual currency algorithm

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Virtual currency is the currency used for electronic circulation. Now the scope of virtual currency is very large, including q-coin, bitcoin and so on. With the development of digital currency, virtual currency is becoming more and more abundant, which may become the mainstream in the future. For example, BTC, EOS, bcbot and so on are not only virtual currencies, but also algorithms, landing projects and technologies

virtual currency is mainly issued by online game service providers to purchase game props, such as equipment, clothing, etc. But at present, the use of virtual currency has gone far beyond this category. Virtual currency can be used to buy game cards, physical objects and download services of some movies and software

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real risk

as the proct of e-commerce, virtual currency has begun to play an increasingly important role, and it is more and more connected with the real world. However, with the growth of virtual currency, the relevant laws and regulations are lagging behind, which has laid many hidden dangers

fraud

the private transaction of online virtual currency has realized the two-way circulation between virtual currency and RMB to a certain extent. The activity of these traders is to buy all kinds of virtual currencies and procts at a low price, and then sell them at a high price to earn profits. With the increase of such transactions, there are even virtual mints. In addition to the virtual currency provided by the main company, there are also some people who specialize in "virtual coin making" to obtain virtual currency by playing games and then resell it to other players

Taking Wenzhou as an example, there are about seven or eight such "virtual mints" with four or five hundred practitioners. This not only creates a bubble for the price of the virtual currency itself, but also causes trouble for the normal sale of the issuing company. It also provides a platform for selling and collecting money and money laundering for various cyber crimes. p>

impact system

in modern financial system, the issuers of money are generally central banks, which are responsible for the management and supervision of money operation. As the equivalent exchange goods used to replace the real currency circulation on the Internet, the virtual currency on the Internet is essentially the same as the real currency. The difference is that the issuers are no longer central banks, but Internet companies

if the development of virtual currency makes it form a unified market, each company can exchange with each other, or virtual currency is integrated and unified, and all of them are based on the same standard and price, then in a sense, virtual currency is currency, which is likely to form a threat impact on the traditional financial system or economic operation

reference: network virtual currency

3. Bitcoin Bitcoin is a kind of virtual currency in the form of P2P. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system. Bitcoin does not rely on specific currency institutions to issue, it is generated through a large number of calculations of specific algorithms. Bitcoin economy uses a distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions. The decentralized nature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially manipulate the value of bitcoin through mass proction. The design based on cryptography can make bitcoin only be transferred or paid by the real owner. This also ensures the anonymity of money ownership and circulation transactions
bitcoin is a kind of network virtual currency, which is similar to Tencent's q-coin. You can use bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats and equipment in online games. As long as someone accepts it, you can also use bitcoin to buy real-life items
the biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total amount of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity. The monetary system has no more than 10.5 million in the first four years, and the total number after that will be permanently limited to 21 million. Another point is that you can use computers to make bitcoin
bitcoin is an electronic currency proced by open source P2P software. Bitcoin has also been paraphrased as "bitgold". The concept of virtual currency bitcoin was first proposed by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Now bitcoin is also used to refer to bitcoin's open source software designed and released according to the ideas of Satoshi Nakamoto and the P2P network built on it. Unlike most currencies, bitcoin does not rely on a specific central issuing institution, but uses a distributed database throughout the P2P network nodes to record currency transactions, and uses cryptography design to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. For example, bitcoin can only be used by its real owner, and only once, after the payment is completed, the original owner loses the ownership of the bitcoin
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bitcoin is designed to allow anonymous ownership and use rights. Bitcoin can be stored in personal computers in the form of computer files (wallet) or in third-party hosting services. No matter how it is saved, bitcoin can be sent to anyone on the Internet through its address. The distributed characteristics of P2P and the design of no central management mechanism ensure that no organization can manipulate the value of bitcoin or create inflation.

4. Litecoin litecoin (LTC), released on October 7, 2011, is currently the most valuable counterfeit coin, accounting for about 2% of BTC's market value. The current unit price is US $2.31, with a total currency value of US $38 million. It's also a distributed (decentralized) digital currency. Unlike the sha256 mining algorithm used by bitcoin, LTC adopts scrypt algorithm. Scrypt algorithm uses sha256 as its subroutine, and scrypt itself needs a lot of memory. Each hash is used as the seed of the input, and then it needs a lot of memory to store another pseudo-random sequence to generate the pseudo-random points of the sequence and output the hash value. In the mining of BTC (bitcoin), it is not enough to rely on simple graphics card mining (it takes about ten to dozens of days to dig a BTC with general configuration graphics card). The emergence of various expensive mining machines has raised the threshold for ordinary people to get BTC through mining, while LTC has certain advantages in using PC graphics card mining This passage comes from Zhihu.) Compared with BTC, litecoin has made a little improvement in technology. If BTC is gold now, LTC is silver for the time being. The biggest advantage of litecoin is that it can confirm the authenticity faster. The virtual currency is designed and maintained by Charles Lee. Bitcoin transactions need to be verified, and the average verification time is more than 10 minutes. Most transaction websites need 1 hour to verify. The average transaction confirmation time of liteoin is 2.5 minutes. Developers claim that shortening the verification time increases the practicability of virtual currency. The bitcoin mining efficiency of customized machine and amdgpu is the highest, making it almost unprofitable for miners using CPU mining. Litecain's mining excludes GPUs and custom processors, so it doesn't rely too much on a small number of professional miners. Ppcoinppcoin (PPC) was released on August 19, 2012, which has improved the original technology of BTC. Use proof of stack and join the concept of coinage. Ppcoin is a bifurcated project of bitcoin, which aims to achieve energy efficiency and keep the best performance of the original bitcoin as far as possible. The unit price of ppcoin is US $0.22 and the total currency value is US $4 million. Ppcoin does not have a fixed upper limit of money supply, but it does not mean that ppcoin has obvious inflation compared with bitcoin. Bitcoin can be compared to gold. The annual inflation rate of gold is about 1-3%. Although gold has no known upper limit of money supply, we still know that it is a reliable scarce commodity. There are two types of ppcoin casting: work certificate and equity certificate. The coinage rate of working proof is affected by Moore's law, which depends on the doubling of our working proof ability. What we all know is that Moore's law will eventually come to an end. By then, the ppcoin of inflation may be close to the gold level. The annual maximum inflation rate of certificate of equity is 1%. At the same time, ppcoin's transaction costs were destroyed to fight inflation. So on the whole, the coin design of ppcoin is still a very low inflation design in the future, which can be comparable with bitcoin. Ppcoin is awarded in a lottery like way, and the winning probability is determined by the number of ppcoins held by miners, said sunny king, one of the founders. Their design is based on a new concept of long-term energy efficiency. Terracoin terracoin (TRC) was released on October 26, 2012, with a total currency of 42 million. The speed of each block is 2 minutes, slightly faster than LTC. There is not much special in technology, similar to the proction of BTC halved every four years. However, the operation team seems to have a strong business background and may be better than other bitcoin in circulation. The development of virtual currency is getting more and more attention. Now some teams with business background will accelerate the development of virtual currency. Namecoin namecoin is a distributed domain name system based on bitcoin technology. Its principle is the same as bitcoin. This open source software was first released on April 18, 2011. Namecoin is generated from an original block which is different from bitcoin's main trading block. It uses a new blockchain, which is independent of bitcoin's blockchain. Because it is based on bitcoin, the security, distribution, robustness, encryption and migration of domain names are mathematically guaranteed. You can dig bitcoin and namecoin at the same time. This project was discussed and proposed by bitdns, which is mainly dissatisfied with the defects of DNS. The only top-level domain name of namecoin is. Bit. It costs namecoin to register a. Bit domain name.

5. Virtual currency is a group of encrypted strings, without the form of physical currency, which can be circulated and paid through the network. See blockchain for specific functions.

6. It's the problem of computational cryptography. The hash value, who is right, belongs to the new block, and gets a certain bitcoin as a reward. In addition, the income from the handling charges of all blocks generated in the block can also be obtained. Look at 58coin. It's explained in detail.

7. The latest release of Ryle coin is the core algorithm of crypt, which also tends to mine CPU