Are there any central banks in the world buying bitcoin
There are only 21 million bitcoins
"graphics card mining" is a joke. In fact, it is running a specific algorithm to generate bitcoin through a large number of calculations
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the concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. According to Nakamoto's idea, the open source software was designed and released, and the P2P network on it was constructed. Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
unlike most 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 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. 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 used to have no more than 10.5 million in four years, after which the total number will be permanently limited to 21 million
bitcoin can be cashed and converted into the currency of most countries. Users can use bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats and equipment in online games. As long as someone accepts it, they can also use bitcoin to buy real-life items
on February 26, 2014, Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator from West Virginia, issued an open letter to a number of regulatory authorities of the US federal government, hoping that the relevant authorities would pay attention to the status quo of bitcoin's encouraging illegal activities and disrupting the financial order, and demanded that actions be taken as soon as possible to completely ban the electronic currency
from 12:00 noon on January 24, 2017, China's three major bitcoin platforms officially began to collect transaction fees
however, to say a good thing, it depends on whether it is safe and reliable enough, whether the trading experience is smooth enough, and whether the currency is complete enough. From these dimensions, the security of the current mainstream centralized exchanges is not up to standard, and coin loss and theft often occur. In contrast, the decentralized exchange has achieved rapid development in the past two years. In particular, the head of the decentralized exchange has done a very good job in terms of user asset security and user experience, and the good experience can be comparable to that of the centralized exchange. It is believed that with the development of technology, decentralized exchanges will graally become the mainstream, and centralized exchanges will graally withdraw from the historical stage. The trading platform is better to be decentralized, such as me.
according to foreign media reports, with the growing popularity of bitcoin, central bank governors around the world have also expressed their views on this digital currency
Federal Reserve Bank of the United States
in December last year, at the monetary policy meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, Janet Yellen, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was asked what she thought of bitcoin
According to Yellen, this kind of digital currency is a "highly speculative asset" and "cannot be legal tender". She added that it "plays a negligible role in the payment system" and that it "is not a stable store of value.""the Federal Reserve Bank will not make any policy on bitcoin. Instead, we will only ensure that the banking institutions we supervise pay close attention to digital currency and properly manage their interaction with traders in the market. Moreover, we will monitor whether these banking institutions have fulfilled their responsibilities to combat money laundering and ensure the safety of banks. " Yellen said
at the end of November last year, Jerome Powell, who will replace Yellen as chairman of the Federal Reserve in February this year, also expressed his views on cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies "don't matter now" because "they're not big enough," he said
According to Powell, the financial risk brought by digital currency to the financial market is minimal“ They're not big enough, they don't matter now. " He saidEuropean Central Bank
in October last year, Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, said that cryptocurrency was not "mature" enough for the central bank to regulate management
"for anything new, people are always full of expectations, but also feel very uncertain. Now, as far as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are concerned, we don't think they are mature enough for us to consider standardized management. " He said
Draghi pointed out that tools like bitcoin have both advantages and disadvantages, and we need to weigh them carefully
"a lesson of the great financial crisis is financial innovation. As far as bitcoin is concerned, it is a financial and technological innovation. We should pay close attention to its potential risks while paying attention to it. " He said
Bank of Canada
in December last year, Stephen poloz, President of the Bank of Canada, also spent some time discussing cryptocurrency. He claims that buying digital currency is a gamble, not an investment
"perhaps no one can say clearly what their real value is. One can at most say that buying digital currency is buying risk. This makes it closer to gambling than investment. " "For people who want to buy cryptocurrency, what I want to say is that you should read the collateral to make sure you know what you're investing in," boloz said
According to boloz, the demand for digital currency will increase in the future. He added that the Central Bank of Canada was studying whether to issue its own digital currency"bank staff are studying the conditions under which the central bank is more suitable to issue its own digital currency for retail transactions." He said
Reserve Bank of Australia
in December last year, Reserve Bank of Australia President Philip Lowe talked about bitcoin in a speech. He pointed out that this kind of digital currency will not be used in daily payment activities, and it can not be accepted so soon
According to Lowe, the reason is that the price of bitcoin is extremely unstable, the number of payments that can be processed at the same time is limited, the transaction and electricity costs are too high, and the management is too difficultmoreover, when bitcoin is only used as a payment tool, it "is more likely to attract those who want to trade in black or illegal economic activities."
Bank of Japan
at the end of 2017, Haruhiko Kuroda, President of Bank of Japan, said the price fluctuation of bitcoin was "extremely abnormal"
when asked if there will be a bubble in bitcoin, he replied, "I may not be qualified to evaluate it, but if you look at its trend, you will see that its price fluctuation is very abnormal. If you want to ask whether bitcoin has the same function as money, that is, as a payment or settlement tool, then my answer is No
investment should be cautious and private letter from mining machinery is needed
Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency
reasons for blocking:
1. Vulnerability of trading platform. The bitcoin network is robust, but the bitcoin trading platform is fragile. Trading platform is usually a website, which will be attacked by hackers or shut down by competent authorities
The transaction confirmation time is long. When bitcoin wallet is first installed, it will consume a lot of time to download historical transaction data blocks. While bitcoin transaction, in order to confirm the accuracy of data, it will take some time to interact with P2P network, and the transaction will be completed only after the whole network is confirmed The price fluctuates greatly. Due to the intervention of a large number of speculators, the price of bitcoin for cash fluctuates like a roller coaster. Making bitcoin more suitable for speculation rather than anonymous trading4. The public did not understand the principle, and the traditional financial practitioners resisted. Active netizens understand the principle of P2P network and know that bitcoin has no legal person to manipulate and control. But the public doesn't understand, and many people can't even tell the difference between bitcoin and q-coin“ "No issuer" is the advantage of bitcoin, but in the view of traditional financial practitioners, "no issuer" currency is worthless
extended materials:
the concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. According to Nakamoto's idea, the open source software was designed and released, and the P2P network on it was constructed. Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
unlike most 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 decentralized feature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially control the value of bitcoin by mass manufacturing. 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. 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 used to have no more than 10.5 million in four years, after which the total number will be permanently limited to 21 millionbitcoin can be cashed and converted into the currency of most countries. Users can use bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats and equipment in online games. As long as someone accepts it, they can also use bitcoin to buy real-life items
on February 26, 2014, Joe Manchin, a Democratic senator from West Virginia, issued an open letter to a number of regulatory authorities of the US federal government, hoping that the relevant authorities would pay attention to the status quo of bitcoin's encouraging illegal activities and disrupting the financial order, and demanded that actions be taken as soon as possible to completely ban the electronic currency
from 12:00 noon on January 24, 2017, China's three major bitcoin platforms officially began to collect transaction fees
in fact, buying bitcoin in the United States and selling it in China is a very simple process: first, you buy it on the U.S. trading platform or through other ways, and then transfer it to your own wallet, which can be an online wallet or a client-side wallet, When you recharge the bitcoin in your bitcoin wallet to the domestic bitcoin trading platform, you can cash out. It is not recommended to transfer the bitcoin directly from the wallet of foreign trading platform to the wallet of domestic trading platform, because it may not arrive at the account
this has existed in China for a long time, commonly known as moving bricks, because before Mentougou closed down, the price of external market was generally lower than that in China, and moving bricks arbitrage was the favorite of many bitcoin speculators
of course, bitcoin mining is also carried forward in China. Bitcoin has boosted the price and computing power of bitcoin. From the first generation of pumpkin Zhang Avalon miner to the present generation of Avalon 3 miner, the miner instry is booming in China.
Let's start with a simple conclusion: a year ago, the data showed that there were about 500000 BTC
two American brothers, Cameron winkleworth and Taylor winkleworth, claiming that they owned 1% of bitcoin [1] 1% of the world's bitcoin? At present, the total amount of bitcoin in the world is about 12 million, that is to say, the two brothers hold about 120000 bitcoins< maybe you don't think it's worth much, but note that the starting price of bitcoin for these two people is less than $10 / bitcoin
Please note that entities are used instead of people. In the analysis method of this paper, bitcoin wallets that may belong to the same owner are divided into the same entity, which may be not only a person, but also a trading organization like Mt. GOx in addition, through the analysis of the most active entity table given in this paper, the income of the people with the most income (excluding expenses) is less than 700000 BTC. In other words, the person with the most bitcoin will hold no more than 700000 bitcoins. How many people in the world own bitcoins? The paper concludes that as of May 13, 2012, 1.85 million entities hold bitcoin. If we assume that bitcoin users have grown linearly since the advent of bitcoin (January 2009), the current number should be 2.5 million. Because the number of entities is counted on paper, the actual number of bitcoin holders should be a little less than this number, but not much smaller, because after all, there are not many large trading platforms
In addition to the above two problems, [3] also gives many interesting conclusions, such as: < UL >about 55% of bitcoin can be saved without money
in places like GOx mountain, almost all deals are small ones
before May 2012, almost all large single transactions (& gt; 50000 BTC) are subsequent transactions of 90000 BTC on November 8, 2011. There are very strange patterns in this long list of transactions. For example, an entity divides 90000 BTCs into different sizes, sends them back to itself three times, and then sells them on Mt. GOx. 90000 BTCs sold are sent back to the entity through 90 different bitcoin addresses, with 1000 bitcoins per address. These operations indicate that the entity appears to be trying to hide the relationship between these transactions
blockchain is a digital account book that can be jointly bookkept, and will record all transactions that have occurred and have been unanimously recognized by the system it's the same as the whole family. You're bookkeeping, and your father and mother are also bookkeeping. They can see the general ledger, but the saved information can't be tampered with any more
In 2008, Nakamoto first proposed the concept of blockchain subsequently, blockchain has become the core component of electronic currency bitcoin, which serves as the public account book for all transactions. By using peer-to-peer network and distributed timestamp server, the blockchain database can be managed independentlyextended data:
type of blockchain
1, public blockchain
any indivial or group in the world can send transactions, and transactions can be effectively confirmed by the blockchain, and anyone can participate in its consensus process. Public blockchain is the earliest and the most widely used blockchain. The virtual digital currencies of bitcoin series are all based on public blockchain. There is only one blockchain corresponding to this currency in the world
2, Alliance (instry) blockchain
instry blockchain: multiple preselected nodes are designated as bookkeepers within a group, and the generation of each block is jointly determined by all preselected nodes (preselected nodes participate in the consensus process), and other access nodes can participate in the transaction, However, regardless of the bookkeeping process (in essence, it is still managed bookkeeping, only distributed bookkeeping, how many preselected nodes, and how to determine the bookkeeper of each block to become the main risk point of the blockchain), anyone else can conct limited query through the open API of the blockchain
3, private blockchain
only uses the general ledger technology of blockchain for bookkeeping. It can be a company or an indivial, and enjoys the write permission of the blockchain. This blockchain is not very different from other distributed storage schemes