The emergence mechanism of bitcoin

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Bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto on November 1, 2008, and was officially born on January 3, 2009. According to the idea of Nakamoto, the open source software is designed and released, and the P2P network on it is constructed. Bitcoin is a virtual encrypted digital currency in the form of P2P. But in China, bitcoin is forbidden to circulate

unlike all currencies, bitcoin does not rely on specific currency institutions. It is generated by a large number of calculations based on specific algorithms. Bitcoin economy uses the distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. 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

extended information:

Article 1 of the announcement on preventing the financing risks of token issuance accurately understands the essential attributes of financing activities of token issuance. Token issuance financing refers to the so-called "virtual currency" raised from investors by the financing subject through the illegal sale and circulation of token. 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

Relevant departments will closely monitor relevant developments, strengthen cooperation with judicial departments and local governments, strictly enforce the law in accordance with the current working mechanism, and resolutely deal with market chaos. If suspected crimes are found, they will be transferred to judicial organs. The token or "virtual currency" used in token issuance financing is not issued by the monetary authority, does not have such monetary attributes as legal compensation and compulsion, does not have the same legal status as currency, and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market

Article 2 no organization or indivial may illegally engage in token issuance and financing activities. As of the date of this announcement, all kinds of token issuance and financing activities shall be stopped immediately. Organizations and indivials that have completed the token issuance and financing should make arrangements such as refund, reasonably protect the rights and interests of investors, and properly handle risks. Relevant departments will seriously investigate and deal with the activities of token issuance and financing that refuse to stop and the illegal behaviors in completed token issuance and financing projects

3. The following is from: http://bitcoin.org/zh_ Cn / about

historical background

bitcoin is one of the first currencies to realize the concept of "cryptocurrency". In 1998, Wei Dai first expounded the concept of "cryptocurrency" in cypherpunks mailing list. Based on the basic concept of money, which is used to pay for goods, services and debt or any form of records in a given country or economy, bitcoin is a new form of money. Its original design is to integrate the idea of not relying on the central authority, using the principle of cryptography to control the issuance and transaction of money
in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto published the first bitcoin specification and its proof of concept in the cryptography mailing list. At the end of 2010, Nakamoto claimed that he had transferred to other affairs and left the project. The creator of bitcoin never revealed his true identity, but left his invention to the world. Today, the origin and motivation of the invention of bitcoin is still a mysterious story
since 2010, many developers have devoted themselves to this project, and the bitcoin community has grown rapidly. Between June and July 2011, bitcoin suddenly gained media attention, leading to large-scale buying. The resulting bubble led to the continued decline in the price of bitcoin in the second half of 2011. After that, the price of bitcoin graally rose to the height of 2011
in order to regulate, protect and promote the development of bitcoin, the bitcoin foundation was established on September 27, 2012. Nowadays, with the increasing number of bitcoin users, bitcoin economy is developing rapidly

technical features

any network like bitcoin has the following basic features:
bitcoin can be transferred between any node of the network
the transaction is irreversible
the use of block chain avoids the occurrence of double consumption
the transaction will spread out in a few seconds and pass validation in 10 to 60 minutes
transaction processing and currency issuance are carried out through mining
bitcoin can be received at any time whether it is online or not<

economic rules

the whole bitcoin network jointly implements the following rules:
the total amount of bitcoin issued is about 21 million
a bitcoin can be divided into 8 decimal places, with a total of about 21 × 1014 monetary units
transaction costs are very low and most of them are free

statistics

bitcoin network has been running continuously for more than 48 months. In the past year, bitcoin's security features have attracted attention and developed significantly. As of April 2013:
the longest block chain has more than 232000 blocks
one of the largest distributed computing networks in the world, with more than 65 trillion hashes per second
there are 50000 transactions every day, with a total amount of several million US dollars
the total value of bitcoin in circulation exceeds US $1.3 billion
there is only one major security incident in the protocol, which was resolved in August 2010

other information can be referred to:
Network: http://ke..com/view/5784548.htm
bitcoin official website: http://bitcoin.org/zh_ CN/

5. Bitcoin uses a graphics card to do an arithmetic, just like we do math problems. It has a rule of that algorithm, and then it uses a graphics card to do the arithmetic. His algorithm will be geometric superposition. So it's hard to find this bitcoin now. There is one of them. Well, you download the roaming browser. He has one called symbiotic coin. That is to say, when you usually surf the Internet, use this browser. You'll generate some virtual coins. Then it can be changed into RMB. I'm not quite clear about his ratio.

6. There are mainly two kinds of bitcoin algorithms, which are elliptic curve digital signature algorithm and sha256 hash algorithm

elliptic curve digital signature algorithm is mainly used in the generation process of bitcoin public key and private key, which is the cornerstone of bitcoin system. SHA-256 hash algorithm is mainly used in the workload proof mechanism of bitcoin

the principle of bitcoin generation is the special solution generated by complex operation, and mining is the process of finding the special solution. However, the total number of bitcoin is only 21 million, and with the continuous mining of bitcoin, the more difficult it will be to proce bitcoin, and the cost of acquiring bitcoin may be higher than the price of bitcoin itself

the bitcoin block consists of a block header and the transaction list contained in the block. The size of the block header is 80 bytes, which is composed of 4-byte version number, 32 byte hash value of the previous block, 32 byte Merkle root hash, 4-byte timestamp (current time), 4-byte current difficulty value and 4-byte random number. A block header with a fixed length of 80 bytes is the input string used to prove the workload of bitcoin. Constantly change the random number in the block header, that is, the value of nonce, and do double sha256 operation on the block header after each change, and compare the result value with the target value of the current network. If it is less than the target value, the problem is solved successfully, and the workload is proved to be complete

the essence of bitcoin is actually the unique solution of a set of equations generated by a bunch of complex algorithms. Bitcoin is the first distributed virtual currency in the world, which has no specific distribution center. The network of bitcoin is composed of all users, because there is no center to ensure the security of data.

7. Bitcoin transfer can transfer the balance of multiple addresses out or into multiple addresses at one time
for example, you need to pay Niuniu 5 bitcoins, but there are 1 / 2 / 2 bitcoins in each of your a / B / C addresses, and the balance of each address is not enough to pay for 5 bitcoins
at this time, you can initiate a transfer and transfer 5 bitcoins from a / B / C to Niuniu. Take chestnuts. If you have five bitcoin addresses, you only need to transfer one to Niuniu. You need to tell the miner when transferring money: I have five bitcoins, one of which will be transferred to Niuniu, and the other four will be transferred back to myself (can be the original address or create a new address)
don't forget to say, otherwise the remaining four bitcoins will be used as handling charges for miners. This is the change mechanism of bitcoin.

8. Banknotes are mainly maintained by national laws. For example, the laws of each country stipulate its own legal currency. Once the laws are not maintained, banknotes will be worthless. Paper money can only be used as commodity equivalent if it is built on a trusted national legal system. Bitcoin can circulate in a society that trusts bitcoin. For those who do not trust bitcoin, bitcoin is nothing more than a bunch of meaningless numbers. Therefore, bitcoin is something similar to a monetary system that is completely separated from the gold (paper money) standard. It does not have the advantage of devaluation e to abuse (printing more money) by regulators, but it also lacks support and supervision, The corresponding currency value fluctuation is also caused by the degree of trust
a mining machine is a combination of computer hardware and computer program software that runs a specific algorithm based on bitcoin security mechanism!