Bitcoin's latest crime

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It's not against the law to do bitcoin business, but don't use bitcoin to do illegal things

the following is the bitcoin risk notice issued by the central bank and other five ministries and commissions (bitcoin home has the full text):

the notice 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, bitcoin trading as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate at their own risk

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Bitcoin, as a virtual encrypted network data currency, has been soaring in recent years, and has been concerned by many people. Criminals also focus on this piece of fat, using bitcoin to start a new type of crime

In my opinion, bitcoin, a virtual currency, still needs to be more cautious in investment to avoid falling into the trap of criminals

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It's not against the law to do bitcoin business, but don't use bitcoin to do illegal things

in China, the regulations on the administration of RMB prohibit the proction and sale of token tickets. Because there is no clear judicial interpretation of the definition of token ticket, if bitcoin is included in the "token ticket", the legal prospect of bitcoin in China will face uncertainty

the notice of the Ministry of culture and the Ministry of Commerce on strengthening the management of virtual currency of online games (Wen Shi Fa [2009] No. 20) on June 4, 2009 stated that the application scope of virtual currency of online games was defined for the first time, and the distinction between the current virtual currency of online games and the virtual props in the game was made; At the same time, the notice said that the "notice" stipulates that enterprises engaged in related services must be approved before they can operate

in China, some Taobao stores also began to accept the use of bitcoin, and the number of businesses will graally increase

in October 2013, the first bitcoin quarterly, one bit, was released

on October 15, 2013, the network accelerator service of the network announced its support for bitcoin

on October 26, 2013, btcmini reported that GBL was hacked

on October 31, 2013, Lei Teng, a famous Internet lawyer, proposed the event of "filing a case to investigate the closure of GBL bitcoin trading platform as soon as possible", analyzed the "value function" and "use function" of bitcoin, and bitcoin should be governed by relevant laws

on December 5, 2013, notice of the Ministry of instry and information technology of the people's Bank of China, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission on preventing bitcoin risk: bitcoin is a specific virtual commodity

as a commodity trading behavior on the Internet, ordinary people have the freedom to participate in bitcoin trading at their own risk

on September 4, 2017, announcement of the people's Bank of China Central Network Information Office, Ministry of instry and information technology, State Administration for Instry and commerce, China Banking Regulatory Commission, China Securities Regulatory Commission and China Insurance Regulatory Commission on preventing the risk of token issuance financing: it is prohibited to engage in token issuance financing activities (ICO)

the trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal tender and token, or virtual currency, or buy or sell token or virtual currency as a central counter party, or provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or virtual currency

on November 2, 2018, the people's Bank of China released the 12th topic of China financial stability report 2018, which talked about "encrypted assets"

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extended information:

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purchase method

< P > users can buy bitcoin, and at the same time, they can use computers to "mine" bitcoin according to algorithms. When users "mine" bitcoin, they need to search for 64 bit numbers by computer

and then, by repeatedly solving mysteries, compete with other gold miners to provide the required numbers for the bitcoin network. If the user's computer successfully creates a set of numbers, it will get 25 bitcoins

e to the decentralized programming of bitcoin system, only 25 bitcoins can be obtained every 10 minutes, and by 2140, the upper limit of bitcoins in circulation will reach 21 million. In other words, bitcoin system is able to achieve self-sufficiency, resist inflation through coding, and prevent others from destroying these codes

source of reference: network bitcoin

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It's not against the law

The laws and administrative regulations in China do not prohibit the proction, holding and legal circulation of bitcoin, nor do they prohibit the sale of bitcoin mining machines

2. The investment and transaction of "virtual currency" represented by bitcoin are on the rise. For this kind of virtual goods generated in the Internet environment after the development of Internet technology, there are policy and commercial risks in related transactions. However, under the premise of not violating the mandatory provisions of laws and administrative regulations, the contract signed by the parties is a valid contract

3. Bitcoin is generated by "miner" and "mining", and "miner" can be assumed by anyone in any place in the world. "Mining" is a process in which "miner" provides certain computer computing power according to the open source software provided by the designer, and obtains the special solution of the equation through complex mathematical operations, The miner who gets the special solution gets a certain amount of bitcoin reward

Because bitcoin is based on workload proof, it is related to computing power. To have computing power, we need to consume power, so its power consumption is very large. It is precisely because of such a large power consumption that the safe and stable operation of bitcoin system can be guaranteed

extended information:

according to the data of btc.com website, up to now, the computing power of the whole bitcoin network is about 51.65 eh / s, which is equivalent to 1.84 million bitcoin S15 (28T computing power, 1596w power) mining machines in operation, and the daily power consumption is about 69.92 million kwh. Divided by the current proction of 1800 bitcoins per day, excluding other costs, each bitcoin will consume 38800 kwh of electricity. "

from this point of view, although the current price of bitcoin is expensive, the cryptocurrency market website coinmarketcap.com shows that the current unit price is about $7900, but the cost of mining a bitcoin is not low at all

5. There must be fraud in digital currency investment. It's better to find formal institutions to invest, and don't trust high returns.

6. It's not a question of whether or not... Take a look at the price of bitcoin for yourself

7. Virtual currency does not belong to electronic currency. There's a bit of a similarity. E-money is the electronic circulation of money, that is to say, the fundamental nature of e-money and money is the same. Virtual currency, from the beginning of q-coin game currency to the present bitcoin, bcbot and other digital currencies, belongs to virtual currency, which belongs to the activity of decentralization that has not been recognized, although digital currency also has some attributes of electronic currency.

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“ The biggest case in the coin Circle & quot; The second instance of plustoken case is in Jiangsu & middot; Yancheng sentence. The case involved more than 2 million participants, more than 3000 levels of hierarchical relationship, and the total value of digital currency involved exceeded 40 billion yuan

Yancheng intermediate people's Court of Jiangsu Province issued a criminal ruling of second instance, rejecting the appeal and maintaining the original judgment. According to the judgment of the first instance, 14 defendants, including Chen Bo, Ding zanqing and Peng Yixuan, committed the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities, and Chen Tao, who committed the crime of covering up and concealing the crime, was sentenced to two to eleven years' imprisonment and a fine

At the beginning of the 19th century, Yancheng public security organs received a report that some people used plutoken network platform to commit pyramid selling crimes, and Yancheng public security organs put the suspects on file for investigation

under the coordination of the Ministry of public security, the special case police officers went to Vanuatu, Kampuchea, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries and regions, and successfully arrested 27 suspect suspects who were hiding abroad. Meanwhile, 1 suspect suspects were arrested in the territory. p>

in the past 20 years, the Ministry of public security deployed the national public security organs to arrest all 82 key members suspected of pyramid selling

9. As a virtual currency, bitcoin has the characteristics of borderless and cross-border
ordinary cross-border remittance will go through layers of foreign exchange control institutions, and the transaction records will be recorded by many parties. But if you trade with bitcoin, enter the digital address directly, click the mouse and wait for the P2P network to confirm the transaction, a lot of money will pass. It does not go through any regulatory agencies and will not leave any cross-border transaction records
criminals convert the stolen money into bitcoin before trading. With the current technical means, the public security organs can not investigate the capital flow.