Can SBTC surpass BTC value
About bitcoin, the news is flying all over the world these two days
specifically, a foundation called BTN foundation announced that it has set up a bitcoin bifurcated development team to launch a new bitcoin bifurcated BTN. Now its official website is online, which is called btn.kim. Two days later, bitgo, another bitcoin development team, announced that it would fork out from bitcoin. Its name is BTF, which literally means "bitcoin faith"
according to Yao yuan, a well-known bitcoin columnist, bitcoin will "have 10 children" in December, and will at least bifurcate out of 10 "children" such as BCX, SBTC and LBTC
as soon as these things happened, the bitcoin market began to fluctuate again, some investors blew up, and all kinds of rumors came out: why so many forks? Is bitcoin out of order
in fact, the bifurcating of bitcoin is far more complicated than what it shows. If we don't explain its historical background clearly, we really can't understand what happened
< b > the origin of bifurcations: the origin of the bifurcations of bitcoin has existed. The so-called bifurcations refer to the accounting differences caused by different underlying protocols. According to Xue Hongyan, director of the Internet financial center of Suning Financial Research Institute, bitcoin is jointly maintained by a number of point-to-point decentralized nodes. The orderly operation of the whole system depends on the consensus of all nodes, that is, there is a set of recognized standards for key issues such as which transactions are acceptable and which nodes have accounting rights. This set of standards is deployed in the underlying protocol of blockchain and implemented automatically
but nodes are operated by people after all, which is the so-called "miner", but everything operated by people will be different. For example, the miners of some nodes go online every day, while the miners of some nodes go online occasionally; Some nodes are in the eastern hemisphere, some nodes are in the Western Hemisphere... In a word, e to various reasons, over time, bitcoin has different underlying protocols in different nodes
if different versions of underlying protocols are running in a node, different standards will appear, which will result in bifurcation. If the nodes can deal with these version differences and finally form a unified standard, the bifurcation will eventually disappear, which is called soft bifurcation. If the difference cannot be eliminated, when some nodes continue to run different versions of the protocol, the bifurcation will continue, which is called hard bifurcation
it's easy to solve the problem of soft bifurcation, that is, if the account book is wrong, just modify it. Hard bifurcations are not easy to solve. No one thinks he is wrong and explains them according to his own standards. In the end, he can only go his own way and keep his own account. At present, bitcoin bifurcation refers to hard bifurcation
< b > the first bifurcations: the first hard bifurcations of bitcoin technology upgrade are purely technical reasons. The settlement performance of bitcoin itself is limited. According to the original technical agreement, bitcoin can only support up to seven settlements per second. This was not a problem in the early days. With the fire of bitcoin, more and more people flocked in, and the settlement became more frequent than ever. At this time, the original technology was not enough
therefore, in the middle of 2017, some miners proposed new technology agreements, but the other miners did not agree with them. Eventually, both sides held one end and ran their own underlying agreements, which was the first bifurcation in the history of bitcoin
However, with the development of bitcoin trading means, speculators graally regard the bifurcation as a means of money collection, which leads to a great change in the nature of the current bifurcationthe principle is that each bifurcation is essentially equivalent to the issue of a new digital currency, which is linked to bitcoin. The target audience is larger than the general ICO, and it is easier to be accepted by ordinary users than issuing a new digital currency directly
because the team that creates this kind of bifurcation takes the lead, it is very easy to control the transaction of the new currency, especially in the early stage, and it only needs a small cost to control the price trend of the whole currency. This leaves a lot of room for speculation. The forked team only needs to make the new currency accepted by the users, and then it can artificially raise the price to a sky high price. After the real users come in, they can sell all the money they hoard, and get high profits out of thin air
on October 25 this year, a domestic team forked out bitcoin gold (BTG). Two days before the forking, Jiang Zhuoer, CEO of leibitchi, denounced the forking as money looping: "Liao Xiang, founder of BTG, had g 200000 BTG coins in advance before the forking, and wanted to convert them into 20000 bitcoins, looping 80 million yuan."
The advantage of bifurcations can be seen, so that the word "bifurcations create value" has become popular in the field of currency speculation. For this reason, a new word "IFO" - first token issue has been derivedHe Sheng, a well-known financial blogger, once told the media that most of the so-called IFO may evolve into the operation of collecting money by harvesting leeks. "Many previous ICOS are doing IFO, and ICO needs to write a white paper and go to the stock exchange to gain market recognition, while IFO does not even need to write a white paper."
this also explains why bitcoin is becoming more and more profitable. To put it bluntly, everyone wants Nakamoto
Can< b > not bifurcate
whether it's Hong shuning of Suning finance, or Mike & Chen, CEO of bitgo, a bitcoin wallet software provider and one of the project leaders of segwit2x; Mike belshe, the instry actually refuses this bifurcation of bitcoin. In fact, real blockchain practitioners have always hated speculation. At present, the leading enterprises in the domestic blockchain instry have clearly expressed their opposition to the overflow of bitcoin bifurcation. For example, when Xunlei launched the first popular blockchain project in China, its CEO Chen Lei said in an interview: "Xunlei opposes all speculative activities using blockchain, so it is definitely against bitcoin for the purpose of speculation and leek cutting arbitrage."
However, to solve this problem, it is not enough to have an attitude alone, but to have specific means. The best way is not to let bitcoin bifurcatethis is difficult to achieve. Bitcoin's own technology is a relatively primitive blockchain technology with limited computing power. It can barely cope with the previous transaction scale. In view of the current situation of bitcoin fire, it is difficult to support. So sooner or later bitcoin will have to solve the problem of its own computing power
but there is no hope at all. With the innovation of blockchain technology, there will always be some new ways. For example, the shared computing proposed by Xunlei can effectively improve the total amount of computing power and rece the cost per unit of computing power without changing the existing hardware facilities. If bitcoin is combined with shared computing, it can effectively solve the problem of bitcoin's computing power limit without new bifurcation
secondly, the bifurcations for the purpose of cutting Chinese chives can be supervised by means of supervision. For example, compared with the real name system of special currency wallet, the real name system of transactions can effectively prevent the risk of Financial Bureau. At present, the real name system has been implemented in some blockchain projects, and has achieved good results. For example, Xunlei's blockchain is the first blockchain application to introce the real name system in China, which basically eliminates the hidden danger of malicious speculation
in a word, there is a way. It depends on whether bitcoin players accept it or not, and there is a process to implement it. It takes time. Therefore, at this stage, it is better for us to stay away from the bifurcations of bitcoin in various names
it is reported that Microsoft has accepted bitcoin cash deposit and zero confirmation instant payment, and there is no transfer fee for bitcoin cash recharge, which is different from the 1.2% transfer fee for bitcoin recharge. Another interesting phenomenon is that Microsoft has put BTC and BCH payment options on the "bitcoin" option on its website. Companies such as tor browser, overstock.com and eff also gave the same answer. The outside world holds a neutral attitude towards who is the real bitcoin. Let users choose for themselves and they will give the right answer
"a hundred legged insects, die but not stiff" is the most appropriate word to use in bitcoin. Bitcoin has been preconceived and has great influence in the society. In the short term, it is a mountain that is difficult to surpass. However, users will give the best choice according to their experience. As time goes on, BCH has low service charge, low cost and low cost The advantages of convenient payment will graally be recognized. At that time, Nokia used to be the dominant mobile market. At the peak of 2010, its market share was as high as 35%. When it was prosperous, it would decline. Because of its complacency, Nokia lost touch with the smartphone market and was acquired by Microsoft only three years later. It will take time to see whether bitcoin will follow Nokia's footsteps, but whether bitcoin cash can become a rising star is self-evident.
as you can understand it, it's like the stock of these technology service providers. As these technologies become more and more widely used, these virtual coins will become more and more valuable
bitcoin, which appeared in 2009, is the first kind of virtual currency in the world. It is also the first time that it has applied the blockchain technology which is popular all over the world
after bitcoin, there are many imitators in the market. They either improved on the basis of bitcoin, or put forward more grand technical ideas than bitcoin. Virtual currency, which is common in other markets and considered as "regular army" by instry insiders, is collectively referred to as competitive currency. Together with bitcoin, it forms the whole digital currency market, with a total market value of nearly 100 billion US dollars
there are thousands of virtual currencies in the market, most of which are risky; In addition, there are many MLM coins that are simply for the purpose of deceiving people< In order to help you avoid being cheated, the following is a brief introction to the main "regular army":
1. Bitcoin (BTC)
bitcoin is the first virtual currency in the world, with a total of 21 million. At present, more than 16 million bitcoins have been "g up", with a total market value of about US $45 billion, equivalent to half of the total market value of all virtual coins. It is well deserved to be the number one in the coin circle
bitcoin has been accepted as payment currency by hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world; In addition, bitcoin has also become a common money raising currency in various blockchain technology startups. Therefore, with the increasing demand for bitcoin, the value of bitcoin is likely to grow in the long run
2. Eth is regarded as "bitcoin version 2.0" and is the most likely competitor to surpass the market value of bitcoin. Some time ago, the market value of bitcoin was close to that of bitcoin. However, e to the price rection in the recent month, the market value of bitcoin is only about half of that of bitcoin
Ethernet coin was born in the summer of 2014. It is issued on the Ethereum blockchain, which is different from bitcoin. Ethereum blockchain is a decentralized application platform, which solves the problems of bitcoin's technical limitation in currency application and insufficient function expansion, so it has great technical advantages
3. Bitcash (BCH)
BCH inherits a small part of bitcoin's legacy, the name of bitcoin's cash is also good, and the image logo also inherits a part of bitcoin. The ecology of BCH is also good
BCH pursues to be a world currency and an underlying platform for chain application. BCH is actively deploying the main chain expansion and developing the two-tier network to realize the ideal
the whole ecology should be made efforts from two aspects. The first direction is the expansion of the main chain, payment experience and function improvement. Capacity expansion is the guarantee to keep the certainty of monetary transaction fees very low. Improving the payment experience, including popularizing zero confirmation, pre consensus, and possibly shortening block time, are all evolving towards a better payment experience. The main chain function is perfect, including Op_ Return expansion, token issuance, new opcode addition
with the expansion of BCH main chain function, BCH based applications can be developed. The most famous are the decentralized microblog like memo, the paid download seed application like joystream, and the decentralized encrypted communication like Keyport
the second direction is to develop layer-2 network. Build a new blockchain based on BCH network, such as wormhole and kenoken, which are similar to Ethereum network based on BCH. BCH undertakes more complex block chain functions, such as notification contract, through two-layer network. The competition direction of BCH layer 2 network is to compete with the side chain of BTC
4. Lightning bitcoin (LBTC)
bitcoin has been developing for 10 years. In this decade, bitcoin has experienced three important splits, and now it has become four kinds of currencies. The first is BTC, which has inherited most of bitcoin's heritage; The second is BCH; The third is BSV and the fourth is LBTC
LBTC was born to break the power monopoly of big miner and bitcoin core bitcoin, introce more new features and functions for bitcoin, and greatly improve its performance. Lightning bitcoin (LBTC) is a peer-to-peer e-cash system, which is an innovative experiment based on bitcoin. It uses the dpos consensus mechanism based on utxo to separate the voting right and accounting right, so that the token will not be kidnapped by any party. It is a global value Internet transmission protocol with high speed, low handling charge and high scalability. Due to the adoption of dpos consensus mechanism, users can participate without professional mining machines, achieving real decentralization
the above four are the most mainstream bifurcated versions of bitcoin protocol. They are also investment procts that can realize your desire of soaring wealth. Senior managers can play with them, but the premise is that you need to be prepared for huge losses - because they are very volatile
for Xiao, I would like to say: Although virtual currency is a secret weapon for ordinary people to counter attack the sudden wealth, it's very difficult for you to make a lot of money from it
in addition, at present, the price of virtual bitcoin is at a high level, and it can not be ruled out that it will mainly be sideways in 2019. At this time, I think it is a good choice to some other mainstream bifurcation currencies, such as BCH, BSV and LBTC.
At present, foreign bitcoin trading platforms show that the peak value of bitcoin trading price has exceeded the US $7400 mark, and it is also a wave to US $7500. At the same time, bitcoin cash (BCH) is also rising with the tide
it seems that the rise of bitcoin price drives the whole money market, so there is the rise of bitcoin cash; But is that really the case
in fact, bitcoin cash is different from bitcoin. The biggest difference is that the block capacity of the blockchain is 8m; Similarly, it does not recognize segwit, which is a new branch of bitcoin compared with the capacity of the original 1m bitcoin block
user needs also determine the price
whether it's real goods or the digital currency virtual goods we are talking about, it's just with user needs that they are created. Although the price of bitcoin cash (BCH) has been hovering around $300 before, from the current price of bitcoin, there is still a lot of room for the rise of bitcoin cash (BCH); Is the rise of bitcoin's cash price not in the form of user demand
BCH has great development prospects
BCH is the digital currency most in line with the original heart of bitcoin
the original intention of Nakamoto's design of bitcoin is to be a kind of currency widely used by human beings, a point-to-point currency which is different from the current legal currency system and cannot be eliminated by power. In order to achieve this goal, bitcoin network must keep the transaction fees at a very low level, so that all users feel indifferent; The second is to give users a stable confirmation expectation, that is, 10 minutes to confirm. But now bitcoin is off track. Bitcoin cash (BCH) is based on this point-to-point e-cash system to improve
increase in computing power
the rise in the price of bitcoin cash is also inseparable from the mining computing power of bitcoin cash. With the increase of the mining difficulty of bitcoin and the decrease of the mining difficulty of BCH, the miners think that it will be easier to dig BCH, and it is more profitable to dig bitcoin cash (BCH) than bitcoin, so the computing power will switch to BCH. With the rising price of BCH, digging BCH will become more profitable
bitcoin will be bifurcated again, which is good for BCH
bitcoin will be bifurcated again in November, which is good for bitcoin cash. Because the consensus of the bitcoin community is not consistent, bitcoin is likely to become two kinds of coins after the bifurcation in November. The newly generated bitcoin with the capacity expanded to 2M and the non expanded bitcoin will compete for the naming right of "bitcoin". The fight for naming right will bring great economic chaos and replay attack, which is a threat to users' assets. Some users will move to the bitcoin cash (BCH) camp in order to preserve their assets. If segwit2x hard fork fails in November, bitcoin cash (BCH) will be used as a solution for bitcoin expansion, and will gain more users' support e to its own advantages. Therefore, before the bifurcations of bitcoin come, some investors will invest in BCH to avoid risks, which will also cause a wave of rise
the continuous improvement of bitcoin cash (BCH)
there have been many supporters since BCH came into being. With the continuous development of BCH, many trading platforms, infrastructure, businesses have joined the BCH camp. Because BCH has the advantages of low transaction fees and reliable transaction confirmation that bitcoin does not have at present, it is inevitable for BCH to recover the territory lost by BTC e to transaction congestion and soaring costs in the future. At present, BCH community has been comparable with BTC community
BCH's surge is inevitable. Because the emergence of goods is to meet people's needs BCH, as a point-to-point e-cash system which is most in line with Nakamoto's idea, is very promising. With the development of time, it is possible for BCH to surpass BTC in price as well as in valueanmao wallet
anmao wallet is a light wallet developed by Hangzhou anmao blockchain Technology Co., Ltd., which saves storage space compared with full node wallet. And it is a multi currency Cross Chain Wallet, which supports BTC, BCH, LTC, ETH, etc, dash and erc-20 series of tokens. At present, it is the most complete currency digital currency wallet in the true sense
anmao wallet is the only digital currency wallet that supports Chinese mnemonic words. It is composed of 12 Chinese characters, which is convenient for memory and in line with Chinese reading habits
the biggest feature of anmao wallet is that it well applies the scalability of light wallet. While managing a variety of digital assets, it has embedded DAPP list and anmao fishpond mining game. The tokens are directly stored in the wallet, which is convenient, labor-saving and interesting. It can be said that it is a money making wallet
with embedded Android block browser, each transaction can be queried in real time by using transaction address, block height and transaction ID, which is accurate
there are also market and information DAPP, a multi-functional digital currency wallet
bitpai
bitpai wallet is a new generation of blockchain asset integrated service platform developed by bitpai team. It is based on HD wallet technology, multi signature and on chain transaction. It can easily and safely use digital currency and easily send and receive bitcoin on bitpai. At present, the main supported currencies are BTC, BTC, ETH, some erc2.0 tokens, qtum, HSR, dash, safe, LTC, LCH, Zec, etc and Doge
bitpai supports multi address coin issuing, built-in OTC and exchange (third-party service), and can trade with users from all over the world, which is more suitable for professional users with frequent transactions and OTC trading needs
in terms of security, the user controls the private key. After the transaction is completed, the coin is directly kept by the user. If it does not operate for a long time, bitpie will automatically lock, further improving the security of the wallet
disadvantages: for initial users, too many and complex functions are a kind of burden. They only need to send and receive digital currency simply. Too many complex functions increase the learning time cost of users and affect the experience of wallet users
atoken
atoken is a mobile wallet supporting multi currency cross chain exchange, which is safe and convenient. At present, it supports BTC, LTC, ETH, etc, Doge, EOS and other main chain currencies; BCD, BTG, BCH, SBTC, etc; Support all tokens of Ethereum erc20
users hold their own private key, which is stored in app with multiple encryption. They do not access the server in any form, and no one else can touch your digital assets; The wallet adopts 5-layer HD, horizontal isolation and vertical defense architecture; Pbkdf2, sha-512 and other encryption algorithms are used. At the same time, atoken implements the transaction acceleration function of wallet and supports the transaction acceleration of bitcoin and Ethereum.