Regulation will close bitcoin mine
Recently, the news about "China quietly ordered the closure of bitcoin mines" spread like wildfire. Some media learned through insiders that the central bank held a closed door meeting to rectify some mines with non-standard electricity consumption
in fact, the rectification and treatment of Mines started last year, especially after the closing of domestic exchanges last year, the relevant regulatory authorities also discussed the issue of mine retention, but the conclusion is that the reasons for closing mines are not sufficient, and the mines have not caused more social problems, and the risk points are not clear, so no specific arrangements have been made. However, all localities have received "window guidance", that is, local enterprises can not participate in digital currency mining
in 2016, China's power generation ranked first in the world, and the total power generation accounted for 25% of the world. In this case, according to common sense, mining power in China is indeed the most abundant, especially with the decline of China's economic growth, the wasted power resources are increasing
the electricity of power stations can not be stored, but if the electricity is converted into digital currency, it can be stored. In fact, if China's surplus power generation can be converted into bitcoin for storage, it should be the most efficient mode of proction and operation. It is equivalent to procing US dollars with electricity. It is a processing export mode with the highest added value
in addition, according to the historical development, most of the power in the future may be consumed by computers. This is a judgment I made, which can be witnessed by our generation. In our daily life, the proportion of electricity consumption will be lower and lower. In the future, mankind will solve all kinds of problems by means of digitization and blockchain, and "mines" will only increase, not decrease. Especially with the development of artificial intelligence, space exploration and other fields, the demand for computing power will increase exponentially
electricity is just a kind of energy, just like a person, the biggest energy consumption is not the limbs, but the brain. The human brain is a 24-hour machine. A thinking person's brain consumes 75% of the liver's stored blood sugar every day, and the oxygen consumption accounts for 20% of the whole body's oxygen consumption. The more the brain thinks, the more glucose the neurons need
When the electric lamp was invented 200 years ago, people thought that the best use of electricity was to light the bulb. Has the final say that what electricity market will be most effective in future? p> No one can see electricity. Up to now, it is difficult for many people to understand the mystery of its existence, but electricity has changed the world. The influence of many virtual things is often greater than that of physical things. What does "digital assets" mean to China and the world? I think it is difficult for many people, including the government, to make clear at this time. What we need to reflect on is that apart from the four great inventions, such as electricity, light, telephone, computer, digital currency and so on, how many of the things that are pushing mankind forward are invented by Chinawhen a phenomenon appears, we must study the background and logic behind it. The future competition can be said to be military competition, economic development competition and financial competition, but it can also be said to be ideological and computational competition. It's easier to close mines than to stop trends
There is no law in China to ban bitcoin, so it is not illegal to mine and earn bitcoin
it is not illegal to buy bitcoin in China. In 2013, five ministries and commissions jointly issued the bitcoin risk notice, which states that although bitcoin does not belong to legal tender and is not legally compulsory, people can freely participate in bitcoin trading activities when they voluntarily undertake risks
"notice" clearly defines the nature of bitcoin, and holds that bitcoin is not issued by the monetary authority, has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and mandatory, and is not a real currency. In terms of nature, bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency and cannot and should not be used as currency in the market
however, as a kind of commodity trading on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate in bitcoin trading at their own risk
the notice requires that at this stage, financial institutions and Payment institutions shall not price procts or services with bitcoin, buy or sell bitcoin as a central counterparties, underwrite insurance business related to bitcoin or include bitcoin in the scope of insurance liability, and provide other bitcoin related services to customers directly or indirectly, Including: providing bitcoin registration, trading, clearing, settlement and other services for customers; Accept bitcoin or use bitcoin as a payment and settlement tool; Carry out bitcoin and RMB and foreign currency exchange services; Carry out bitcoin storage, custody, mortgage and other services; Issuing financial procts related to bitcoin; Take bitcoin as the investment target of trust, fund, etc
in order to avoid over hype of virtual commodities such as bitcoin in the name of "virtual currency" and damage the public interest and the legal tender status of RMB, the circular requires financial institutions and Payment institutions to correctly use the concept of currency in their daily work, pay attention to strengthening the ecation of the public's knowledge of currency, and correctly understand the concept of currency The concept of correctly treating virtual commodity and virtual currency, rational investment, reasonable control of investment risk, and maintenance of their own property security should be included in the content of financial knowledge popularization activities, so as to guide the public to establish a correct concept of currency and investment
source of reference: People's website bitcoin network virtual currency
The so-called "this; Mining & quot;, It sounds a bit indecent. In fact, it is a server of the so-called distributed database
in the future, with the continuous increase of international trade volume and the continuous development of Internet platform economy, the whole international community, especially our netizens on the Internet platform, is eager to meet the demand for internet currency
of course, in the end, we have many Internet currencies, which one will become the mainstream settlement currency in our international trade and Internet platform. There is no clear answer to this question
because it involves a large-scale local power consumption, it is not so surprising that bitcoin account packaging business, which has an uncertain future, is treated like this in today's popular low-carbon economy, when the government and enterprises often need to be assessed for carbon emissions
in addition, we should also note that Internet money, in fact, poses a strong threat to central banks. It shows a tendency to replace it completely. So, it is also possible that our local governments and local regulatory departments may have received relevant instructions from the central bank system, for example, to shut down the Internet money business
however, it has not been fully and effectively regulated at present (as of March 6, 2019)
if we understand bitcoin as a kind of "currency", then it is equivalent to US dollars leaving the United States. Usually, after the US dollar leaves the United States, banks in other countries will help manage it. However, it is impossible to count the scattered us dollars that are neither in the United States nor in the hands of banks and other financial institutions. For example, in some areas of Africa where there are no banks, the US dollar is used
these scattered us dollars are equivalent to bitcoin
how to regulate these scattered us dollars
generally, in addition to controlling the issuance of US dollars, US dollar regulation also controls the circulation and usage ports. The Federal Reserve controls the number of new currencies issued each year according to the flow and damage of dollars abroad. At the same time, we should supervise the inflow and outflow of US dollars, so as to keep us dollars in an environment that can be roughly traced, so as to facilitate the issuers to count the total amount, so as to avoid excessive inflation or deflation
in fact, these scattered us dollars exist in some deregulated environments. Although they are out of control, they will not affect the overall economic situation
If anyone wants to influence the international economy through these scattered us dollars, then it must enter the existing regulatory system. In this way, these scattered dollars are regulated
for bitcoin, we can also learn from these forms of regulation
first of all, from the point of view of the issuing end, although the total number of bitcoin is now 21 million, it is also "set before" and cannot be changed
recently, it has been mentioned that the 21 million bitcoin limit should be abolished, which means that the issue of bitcoin is not stable. Therefore, it is necessary to control the issuance of bitcoin from the development end
you need to get inside the development side and become a core developer
Second, monitoring from the circulation link. In fact, this is the most difficult monitoring at present, because the blockchain is anonymous, the user is anonymous, and the receiver is anonymous
even though we can trace the circulation path of bitcoin by technical means (for example, we can know that a transaction is sent from a small house in the United States to a commercial building in Germany), it is only a drop in the bucket for tens of millions of users in the whole environment. How to trace and manage the overall transaction data is a huge problem
you can't know from the transaction data whether the user is engaged in illegal transactions
what should we do? Regulators have come up with a way to bind personal identity information to the user's real name, your exchange account number and bitcoin wallet address. But this is also a temporary solution, because it can only monitor the use of bitcoin in specific situations. An indivial can use multiple bitcoin wallet addresses. You don't know when he will apply for a new one
in terms of circulation, there is also a monitoring system to control the exchange channel between bitcoin and local legal currency. Banks in some regions do not provide financial services for users who exchange bitcoin for legal currency, and some countries and regions prohibit financial institutions from providing bitcoin and local legal currency exchange services
if users secretly exchange huge amounts of bitcoin, some clues can be found through the bank transfer records, so as to crack down on illegal acts in time. As for those who make little trouble, let him go
thirdly, restrict the use. This is relatively easy to achieve. For example, relevant laws have been issued to prohibit the use of bitcoin transactions. Although it's impossible to ban it completely, it's better than letting it run wild All over the world, it seems that what is forbidden is not completely forbidden
for example, before using bitcoin in public, you must use your real name, and you have to pay taxes to hold or use bitcoin
of course, it's OK for users not to do so, so it's better to use its assets in the dark
having said so much, now you know that bitcoin can be regulated, but it's not so well managed. Many measures have been taken, and it seems that they are not effectively regulated. Under what circumstances can bitcoin be effectively regulated? Users consciously report their holdings of bitcoin to the regulatory authorities. The regulatory authorities add some development functions to the bitcoin to achieve supervision, or they don't need to use it, so it doesn't matter at all
in fact, it can't be controlled so strictly, as long as it can't be controlled in the range of big waves. After all, there is light and dark, and there may be no gray space at all
new technology will surely have an advantage when it comes to living now.
bitcoin is a decentralized and decentralized monetary system. From the government's point of view, it is not whether it should or not, but it must carry out supervision, and find out the beneficial part in its development process for traction
whether the private economy's acceptance of bitcoin is enough to form an irreversible trend depends on the game between the government and indivials in this process
if the existing monetary system brings more benefits to most nodes in the economic chain or to you, you will not choose the trading scenario of bitcoin from a personal point of view
for example, why do you use bitcoin: is it more convenient to pay? Is trading safer? Is it cheaper to buy a computer? Or for speculation
if most people who use bitcoin are speculative, it is morally reasonable for bitcoin to be regulated in the process of normal social and economic development.
absolutely impossible
you can imagine this picture: payday is coming, your cold wallet has received 0.05 bitcoin, according to the bitcoin 60000 US dollars, you have earned 3000 US dollars this month, a total of 20100 RMB! You are very happy, just as you are going to have a big meal to reward yourself, bitcoin suddenly plummeted from $60000 to $50000, and it is still falling!! Your 0.05 bitcoin is still so much, but your income instantly reced to 16250, nearly 4000 yuan evaporated, not only that, but also the amount continued to decline with the naked eye!! At this time, I'm afraid no one would like to invite you to a big meal. Instead, I nervously took out my mobile phone and quickly sold bitcoin! When the transaction is completed and RMB 16000 is paid to your account, you will finally relax...
so why is bitcoin easy to store money and transfer assets? This is determined by its design principle. Professional knowledge is too complex. In short, bitcoin is a code city that can't be broken by hackers. All users involved in bitcoin trading in this city can't trace their real information through any technical means. Therefore, bitcoin has become a pure land of assets that governments can't control. In this city, your private property will always be yours, No one wants to take it away. If you forget your password, it will be miserable, because you don't want to take back your own bitcoin. It will be stored in this city forever. Therefore, the extreme security and secrecy of bitcoin make it easy for private property to completely get rid of the control of sovereign states, so it is reasonable for governments to study regulatory methods, because bitcoin is the most powerful in history, which can fight against the country's enemies economically