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Invisible bitcoin can not only make people rich or poor overnight, but also bring people worry about their lives
According to Ukrainian media reports quoted by the daily telegraph, on Tuesday (December 26), Pavel Lerner, CEO of the British bitcoin exchange exmo, was kidnapped after leaving his office in Kiev, Ukraine, and dragged into a black galloping car by a group of masked peopleafter the above news came out, a spokesperson of exmo told the daily telegraph that we are doing our best to speed up the search for Lerner and welcome all clues from the outside world. Exmo's business is running as usual and all users' funds are absolutely safe. According to the company's official website, the platform has more than 900000 users
after the kidnapping incident attracted public attention, exmo also announced on official twitter on Thursday that it had been attacked by DDoS (distributed denial of service) with the intention of destroying platform transactions
according to Wall Street reports, at the beginning of this month, when bitcoin rose to more than US $13000, the payment system of nice hash, the world's largest digital currency mining platform, was hacked and bitcoin in users' wallets was stolen. Bitcoin millionaire, a bitcoin information website, has since estimated that as many as 4736 bitcoins were stolen by hackers, with a total value of more than $62 million
interestingly, as a foreign netizen imagined, after the kidnappers received the ransom, if bitcoin continued to appreciate, it would be OK. If bitcoin collapsed before the gloves turned, wouldn't it be a "huge loss"
In fact, this is also the old question in the minds of many investors - how long can bitcoin's investment boom last On December 2, when talking about bitcoin in public activities, pan Gongsheng, vice governor of the people's Bank of China, said that it was a decisive and correct decision for regulators to shut down bitcoin trading platform and stop ICO a few months ago According to BBC news, on December 14, Andrew Bailey, CEO of the financial conct authority (FCA), the UK's top regulator, issued a warning to investors, saying that bitcoin buyers should be ready for "full compensation". Bitcoin lacks the endorsement and support of the government and the central bank, and its risk level is the same as gambling, he saidon Thursday (December 28), the South Korean government announced the countermeasures to combat virtual currency speculation, and considered closing some virtual currency transactions, so as to curb excessive speculation. In addition, the South Korean government has decided to implement the real name system of virtual currency trading and expand the investigation authority of the Fair Trade Commission, the anti-monopoly law enforcement agency
In a statement, the South Korean government said that cryptocurrency speculation in South Korea has gone too far and has become irrational, according to the report. The government can no longer allow abnormal speculation to developthe Indian authorities also issued a warning. On Friday, India's finance ministry warned investors about the risks of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, saying digital currency investments look like a Ponzi scheme, Reuters reported. In a statement, India's Ministry of Finance said investors and other participants in digital currency transactions were "entirely at their own risk" and advised that it was best to avoid such investments
but from the perspective of optimists, bitcoin is not as static as gold. As a virtual currency, its software code is constantly developing, and its functions can be constantly adjusted, improved and updated, and its value can be realized in unimaginable ways, such as, Many bitcoin fans are looking forward to bitcoin's "lightning network" (an improved way to facilitate payment). If bitcoin gets more attractive functions in the process of continuous evolution, people can even use it for convenient and fast cross-border payment
according to China Securities Journal, based on the sustainability of bitcoin development, bitcoin supporters believe that even if the market value of cryptocurrency expands to 20 times the current value, the market will not go crazy. However, as far as bitcoin itself is concerned, with more and more new technologies coming out, bitcoin's share in the cryptocurrency market will show a downward trend in the future
Hong shuning, a senior researcher of Suning Institute of financial research, recently wrote an article, imagining two situations of "truly killing bitcoin":first, all bitcoin development teams are conservative and complacent, no longer absorbing the latest scientific and technological achievements to improve themselves, resulting in the emergence of a new digital currency with all aspects of technical indicators exceeding bitcoin, It is widely accepted by the society and then replaces bitcoin. This is the failure of bitcoin, but also the success of virtual digital currency
Second, there are serious loopholes in the bitcoin protocol or wallet software, which lead to the security of the whole bitcoin system can not be guaranteed, a large area of funds are stolen, sold at a low price and uncontrollable in the short term, and the social confidence in bitcoin is completely lost
so. In this world, money is easy to use
on November 1, 2008, a self styled Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper on bitcoin, bitcoin: a peer-to-peer e-cash system, on the P2P foundation website, stating his new idea of e-money, bitcoin. On January 3, 2009, bitcoin Genesis block was born
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bitcoin once became popular and became an investment tool for many people, forcing financial officials including China to warn that investing in this virtual currency is not only illegal but also extremely risky. Mark colperles, 30, lost $387 million on his bitcoin investment, and mtgox, which he acquired in 2011, suddenly went bankrupt in February last year
colperles is suspected of using bitcoin trading computer system to input forged data, resulting in false accounts. He said there was a problem with the computer system, but soon the company went bankrupt. According to reports from Japan, colperles is accused of making $1 million from the company's bankruptcy proceedings, but his defense lawyers denied that he was involved in any illegal act
bitcoin house, the mainstream media in the coin circle, has more reports.
Newsweek recently reported that after learning about Nakamoto's family and some bitcoin programmers, he found Nakamoto in San Bernardino, Southern California. He immigrated to California with his mother in 1959 and received a bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech
later, he changed his name to Dorian prentice<
according to the report, Nakamoto only vaguely admitted his connection with the bitcoin project, saying that he would no longer participate in the project, and refused to further discuss his relationship with the project
the report quoted him as saying: "the project has been handed over to other people, who are currently in charge of it and have no relationship with me any more."< However, in an interview with the associated press later, Nakamoto said that Newsweek misunderstood what he said. "What I said at the time sounded like I was involved in the bit project, but now it's gone. That's not what I wanted to say," he said. What I want to say is that I'm no longer involved in engineering. "
the bitcoin foundation is unwilling to confirm whether the report is true, saying that "there is no evidence to prove that the report's Mr. Nakamoto is the founder of bitcoin."
it is reported that if he is the founder of bitcoin, his wealth is expected to be as high as US $400 million (about S $500 million)
whether Nakamoto is really related to bitcoin or not, even his closest family members don't know. His brother Alto said: "he is very focused and has his own unique set of ideas. He's smart. He's good at math, engineering or computers
andreson, chief scientist of the bitcoin foundation, said that he and a man named "Nakamoto" discussed bitcoin online from June 2010 to April 2011, but they never talked on the phone, let alone met. "If you show up as the founder of bitcoin, now you have to come out and speak and comment on the media, which is not suitable for Nakamoto's personality," andreson told Newsweek.
it has a certain "ability to pay" and a certain price
on the one hand, the concept of blockchain is sought after and hyped by speculative capital; On the other hand, in the black market and money laundering field all over the world, bitcoin is difficult to be tracked by law enforcement agencies because of its decentralized nature, and its limited payment capacity mainly comes from this.
in 2014, bitmex, a well-known digital currency futures exchange in the United States, was established. According to its official website, the contract price of bitmex is determined by the average price of other exchanges. At the same time, the leverage ratio of the exchange can be arbitrarily selected between 1.01 and 100 times. In China, the futures contracts of digital currency trading platform also emerged in 2014. The first one was an exchange giant named bitnet. Then OK and fire coin, which are well known to people, quickly launched similar procts.
Bitcoin is just a virtual digital currency, its core is just an open source software project, anyone can it and launch their own version, but in recent years, it has been fascinated by investors all over the world. Since the beginning of 2017, this virtual digital currency has been more like a roller coaster, and the price has been rising, which has shocked the whole market. Yesterday, a top wall street strategist thought that bitcoin would rise by another 40% next year, and the target of bitcoin by mid-2018 was expected to be $6000
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Chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of bitcoin China: Bob Lee
Bob Lee started his career in Silicon Valley and first worked as a software engineer at Yahoo! The first is to do online community on the Internet
in 2006, Bob Lee moved to Shanghai, China and served as the director of EMC software engineering in Greater China (EMC manufacturer is an innovative cloud computing and cloud storage solution provider). After that, he became chief technology officer of SMG (China's leading IPTV company with the largest user base in the world). Before joining bitcoin China, he worked as vice president of e-commerce technology of Wal Mart in China. Bob Lee graated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in computer science. Meanwhile, he completed his global EMBA program at CEIBS. In his spare time, he likes traveling, photographing, watching movies and playing cards