Two military issues of blockchain
the underlying technologies of digital cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, lightcoin, Puyin, and Ethereum are all blockchains, and they are just an application of blockchain.
blockchain refers to the technical solution of collective maintenance of a reliable database through centralization and distrust in the past, and it is a technical way for the whole people to participate in bookkeeping. Previous bookkeeping methods were all centralized and needed centralized intermediary, whether it was traditional government, financial institutions, notarization institutions or emerging e-commerce platform and online payment platform
in economic hypothesis, information is sufficient. In fact, it is precisely because of insufficient information that there are very large intermediaries. The existence of intermediaries increases the transaction cost and raises the transaction threshold. In essence, blockchain technology is a large-scale collaboration tool. It makes direct value transfer possible by using pure technology for the first time, and continues the trend of Internet decentralization and disintermediation. Disintermediated blockchain technology will greatly subvert the information intermediary instry
blockchain technology is the basic technology for building bitcoin data structure and encrypted transmission of transaction information, which realizes the issue and transaction of bitcoin. The core of blockchain technology is that all the current participating nodes jointly maintain the transaction and database, so that the transaction is based on the principle of cryptography rather than trust, so that any agreed parties can directly carry out payment transactions without the participation of a third party
technically, a block is a data structure for recording transactions, reflecting the capital flow of a transaction. In the system, the transaction blocks are connected to form a main chain, and all the nodes participating in the calculation record the main chain or part of the main chain
a block contains the following three parts: transaction information, hash formed by the previous block and random number. Transaction information is the task data carried by the block, including the private keys of both parties, the number of transactions, the digital signature of electronic currency, etc; The hash hash formed by the previous block is used to connect the blocks and realize the sequence of past transactions; Random number is the core of the transaction. All nodes compete to calculate the answer of the random number. The node that gets the answer the fastest generates a new block and broadcasts it to all nodes for updating, so as to complete a transaction.
Blockchain is a term in the field of information technology. In essence, it is a shared database. The data or information stored in it is characterized by "unforgeability", "trace in the whole process", "traceability", "openness and transparency" and "collective maintenance". Based on these characteristics, blockchain technology has laid a solid "trust" foundation, created a reliable "cooperation" mechanism, and has broad application prospects
on January 10, 2019, the state Internet Information Office issued the regulations on the management of blockchain information services. In October 24, 2019, ring the eighteenth collective learning of the Central Political Bureau, general secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "block chain as an important breakthrough in core technology and independent innovation", "accelerating the development of block chain technology and instrial innovation". "Blockchain" has entered the public field of vision and become the focus of social attention
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since 2016, the major financial giants have also carried out blockchain innovation projects to explore the possibility of applying blockchain technology in various financial scenarios. In particular, Puyin group took the lead in creating a "blockchain +" standard digital currency
standard digital currency refers to the process of assets identification, evaluation, right confirmation and insurance completed by a third party organization, which is written into the blockchain through careful digital algorithm to form the standard corresponding relationship between assets and digital currency, which is called standard digital currency
in order to realize the great leap forward development of blockchain finance, promote the new development of China's economy, accelerate the circulation of global assets, and realize the dream of rejuvenation that has been struggling for generations, Puyin group will hold the Guiyang strategic development ceremony of Puyin blockchain finance in Guizhou on December 9, 2016
the meeting will discuss the realization of digital circulation of assets by blockchain, the financial transaction mode of blockchain, and the application of blockchain services and social public instry. This conference will mark the beginning of the application of blockchain finance and the change and development of the new financial ecology
on June 1, 2020, Xinhua news agency was authorized to broadcast the "overall plan for the construction of Hainan free trade port" issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, which will "actively participate in the formulation of international rules for cross-border data flow, and establish standards and rules for data rights confirmation, data trading, data security and blockchain finance" as one of the key tasks of Hainan free trade port before 2035
Blockchain is a kind of technology, which solves the core "trust" problem in the market economy and reces the trust cost between strangers to a very low level
there is one crucial thing in the market economy, which is "trust". Without trust, no deal can be established. When you go to LAICHANG to buy vegetables, if you don't believe that the pesticide content in vegetable is up to the standard, you won't trade with that dealer; If you buy a bottle of water in a small shop, the clerk will not sell you the water if he doesn't believe that the money you give is real
the traditional small-scale peasant economy is acquaintance economy, and the transaction scale is limited to people who are familiar with each other nearby. If an acquaintance deceives you, he will lose your social relationship and damage his reputation in the whole circle of acquaintances. We believe that acquaintances are less likely to cheat us than strangers
therefore, once we are beyond the scope of acquaintances, we need to use a high cost to identify whether a stranger will cheat me and how to avoid the risk of being cheated. This situation will hinder the transaction and restrict the transaction
in addition, different races, nationalities, cultures, religious beliefs and so on will naturally have this kind of trust problem
in the market economy, why can there be so many transactions between strangers? Because of the birth of a new mechanism to solve the problem of trust in strangers
so far, the most important mechanism to solve the trust problem is the "trust intermediary" organization and mode
as long as you and strangers trust a third-party organization, the trust problem between you can be solved through this third-party organization
this third-party organization, we call it trust intermediary. Both the government and the bank are trust intermediaries
you can sell the goods you have worked hard to proce to a stranger in exchange for a stack of RMB banknotes. It's because the credit of the note issuing bank and the guarantee of the authority of the government guarantee the currency value and effectiveness of the banknotes. Otherwise, sell things, in exchange for a few ordinary paper, who would like to
in the era of global village and Internet, the people who buy your things may be strangers who will not meet and thousands of miles away. Trust is lower, so Alipay assumes the role of trust intermediation. Buyers first pay the goods to Alipay's account. When they receive the goods, they confirm that they are OK, then they agree to sell the goods to the seller. Taobao and other e-commerce have been booming rapidly in just over ten years
trust intermediary is in a central position in the transaction system. All transactions should solve the trust problem through it
However, the cost of trust intermediary itself is often hugeas a trust intermediary, how much transaction tax does the government charge each year? What is the most profitable instry? Financial services. The annual profits of Alipay's ant suit are over ten billion. p> What does this mean? Both sides of the market actually pay a huge trust cost
if there is any way to cancel or greatly rece the trust cost, the transaction cost of the general public can be reced, and the profits can be greatly increased
so in the Internet era, blockchain technology is on the stage
it allows the trading party to get rid of the intermediary, solve the problem of trust among strangers, and greatly rece the cost of trust
the blockchain can be expanded on a large scale, the data is open and transparent, the data of each client is consistent, and even if some clients are destroyed, the data security will not be affected. These highly reliable technical features can solve the trust problem of strangers with low cost
this technology can be extended to all fields that can be digitized, such as digital currency, payment and clearing, digital bills, proof of rights and interests, credit reference, government services, medical records, etc
in the medium and long term, blockchain will be a revolutionary technology, which will bring about great social changes like the existing Internet, and has great investment value and money making opportunities
in the future, the companies that can combine blockchain with different scenarios to promote applications may be the next group of bat, the next Google, Microsoft and apple
as the first practical application of blockchain technology, bitcoin has been widely accepted and used all over the world. Millions of users and tens of thousands of merchants have accepted the payment of bitcoin as a digital currency, and the exchange value of bitcoin as a currency is growing. Even e to the consensus that the total amount is fixed and the long-term value is bullish, bitcoin has become a hedge asset similar to gold, and the price has skyrocketed
in the past two years, the word blockchain is very popular, and blockchain e-commerce will undoubtedly be the biggest wind outlet in the next decade. However, the instry is in chaos. Many people think that blockchain is money and have many misunderstandings about blockchain. So before we talk about blockchain, we should first talk about the idea of blockchain
blockchain is now understood by most people as "currency". There are too many coin cards in the coin circle, bitcoin and bitcoin. In fact, blockchain has nothing to do with currency. It is a technology, a business ecology and an idea. It is mainly applied in every field. It is extremely similar to the Internet. Talking about blockchain now is like the Internet 20 years ago. What did we talk about the Internet 20 years ago? When talking about its technical architecture, operating system, language, server and so on, it was said at that time that Internet e-commerce was deceptive, because many people had not been exposed to this aspect. In fact, many people have misunderstood blockchain, especially after being confused by the currency circle
When did jiuzero blockchain start? Jiuling started to investigate and prepare from 2016, and has about half a year to investigate all aspects of the blockchain. In 2017, it began to enter the field of blockchain. By 2020, it will be the fifth year. It has gained a lot of experience and achieved a lot in application. We've never played with coins, never engaged in ICO. In the first few years, we didn't make a lot of noise, that is, we should do a good job in technology, platform and browser, and apply them in traceability. We have done a good job in the application of traceability since 2017, and many procts have been launched; In 2018, more than 10000 procts will be applied in traceability. In 2019, it will be further promoted. This year, it will be further developed, and all procts will be opened up in the whole process of visualization. So at the beginning, we used it in the field of traceability. Since 2018, we have used it in the whole blockchain ecology, including blockchain traceability, blockchain invoice, sharing economy, supply chain finance, general points and other applications, as well as the platform technology services we built. We have entered this field in an all-round way, And relatively speaking, it is relatively mature and completely implemented
What's more, why is blockchain on fire now? Why does the development of blockchain reach the height of "thinking"? This is in line with the trend of the times
let's review the history of China's economic development in recent decades. The wealth of Chiang Kai Shek's time was concentrated on the local tyrants, evil gentry and warlords. Mao Zedong liberated most of the common people as peasants, and United most of them was more suitable for the situation of China at that time. Therefore, he defeated Chiang Kai Shek, overthrew the bureaucracy of the local tyrants, evil gentry and warlords, redistributed their wealth, developed the proctive forces again, and completely redistributed their revolution and distribution, Mao Zedong really realized serving the people and let the people live a good life. In the era of large collectives, people go to work in the countryside to earn points. According to the points you earn, how much food can you get. In Deng Xiaoping's time, I felt that this was not right. It might be that the efficiency was not high, and I ate a big pot of rice. Later, I started the reform and opening up. After the reform and opening up, the fields were divided into households according to the number of people. After that, the output increased a lot, which stimulated everyone's enthusiasm, increased the output and improved the efficiency. After the reform and opening up, commercial instrial enterprises began to develop
we can see that economic development is based on the needs of the times. China's reform and opening up has gone for decades, from the traditional economic era to the E-commerce Internet economy, and now the blockchain has come out, also because of the new problems of wealth distribution in the Internet era
in the Internet era, social wealth is highly concentrated on several platforms, such as Alibaba, Tencent, Internet, Jingdong, etc. the Internet e-commerce leaders have too strong a say in finance, resources, procts and other aspects. Social development has completely lost its balance. The uneven distribution of wealth has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. The instrial enterprises without money, including the whole of China, are now difficult to survive except for the monopolized central enterprises. At this time, there needs to be another revolution in business. The proctive forces must be redistributed and readjusted. It happens that blockchain is born to meet the needs of the era of transportation
the rules and mechanisms of blockchain are completely open and fair, can not be tampered with, and can not be decentralized. The oligarchs of institutions are removed to form a sharing economy for common development. Why does the government support blockchain so much? Because the government can fully enter the field of blockchain for supervision, and the privacy of citizens can be protected. Personal information in the Internet is not protected, and personal information in the blockchain is in their own hands. In the era of Internet e-commerce, oligarchs monopolize information resources. There are too many fake and shoddy procts and too many false information, so we have no way to distinguish them
at this time, the rule mechanism of decentralized supervision of blockchain emerges as the times require. Blockchain is not only a technology (it has made some improvement and promotion in the original Internet technology), but more importantly, it can solve the problems that cannot be solved by the Internet, traditional e-commerce and traditional ecology, such as traceability. Traceability in the Internet age can be falsified. A traceability source can be pasted anywhere, but the traceability of blockchain is different. The technology of blockchain is real. Everyone can participate together. Through distributed storage, everyone can get the data, and then all things can be traced, including procts and invoices, Including a person to send a message can be traced, stored, fidelity
the traceability of blockchain starts with raw materials, then proction and processing, then warehousing, sales, etc. every link should be visualized, with pictures, videos and words, which will leave traces of every link. Only in this way can we make everyone trust completely and be fair, open and transparent when there are too many fake and shoddy procts and lack of trust. In short, blockchain is to solve the problem that the Internet can not solve
when it comes to blockchain, bitcoin is the first thing that many people think of. In fact, bitcoin's contribution to the world is to put forward a rule and mechanism. Bitcoin itself has no value. It has no proct and no support. But its technology and concept are very good, because this technology can't be fake. The source code of this technology is open source and can be shared. Its technology uses the idea of blockchain
as soon as the rules and mechanisms of blockchain come out, they are sought after by everyone. However, in recent years, they have been confused by money. That kind of money is deceptive and runs counter to blockchain. On the contrary, it makes people distrust blockchain because they don't know enough about blockchain and think blockchain is money. Because if you want to understand a field, just like jiuzero blockchain has entered its fifth year, you are engaged in blockchain ecology, blockchain traceability, blockchain digital integration, blockchain technology development, blockchain browser development and so on every day. In this field, you are still learning constantly, because it is not easy to learn a field thoroughly. The reason why we have been very motivated in the past few years is because we know that it is a big trend and coming. Just like the Internet 20 years ago, many people don't believe, understand and turn a deaf ear to it. But ten years ago, Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei and other big enterprises got up. At the same time, now this opportunity is in front of us. Can we seize it? This is a question worth thinking about
finally, let's make it clear that blockchain has nothing to do with currency
for regular blockchain enterprises, the government has requirements and certification standards
standards: three basic requirements (patent, soft work, registered company in national blockchain Park, paid in registered capital, dedicated blockchain R & D funds), four landing application standards (blockchain browser, website, blockchain application scenarios, blockchain procts), five kinds of blockchain professionals (blockchain finance professionals, Blockchain digital professionals, blockchain credit management professionals, blockchain software development professionals, blockchain encryption technology professionals, and employees with bachelor degree or above who have been employed for more than one year) can get six basic subsidies
in the blockchain instry, there are at least tens of thousands of companies doing money and ICU. They all say that they are regular, but can they take out these certificates. The document points out that as long as the company has digital currency or ICO, it is not a blockchain company
under the background of this era, the ideas, rules and mechanisms, decentralized supervision and privacy distribution of blockchain can protect everyone's interests, redistribute proctivity assets, prevent the interests from being too concentrated on certain oligarchs and institutions, let everyone participate together, and let everyone exert their energy together to fight against counterfeiting, tax evasion, tax evasion, tax evasion, etc The real purpose of blockchain is to crack down on false transactions and create a conscientious ecosystem that can protect the interests of the people and provide hematopoietic function.
The way in which people keep accounts together is also known as "distributed" or "decentralized", because everyone keeps accounts, and the accuracy of the account book is determined by the program algorithm, not by an authoritative organization
this is the blockchain, the core is finished, blockchain is so simple, a common account book
six core algorithms of blockchain Technology:
blockchain core algorithm 1: Byzantine agreement
the story of Byzantine is like this: the Byzantine Empire has great wealth, and the surrounding 10 neighbors have been around for a long time, but the Byzantine walls stand tall and firm, No single neighbor has been able to successfully invade. Any single neighbor's invasion will fail, and at the same time, it may be invaded by other nine neighbors. Byzantine Empire's defense ability is so strong that at least more than half of its ten neighbors attack at the same time before it can be broken. However, if one or several of the neighbors agree to attack together, but betray in the actual process, then the invaders may be annihilated. So each side was careful and could not easily trust its neighbors. This is the question of Byzantine Generals
blockchain core algorithm 2: asymmetric encryption technology
in the above Byzantine agreement, if several of the 10 generals send messages at the same time, it is bound to cause confusion in the system, resulting in different attack time schemes and inconsistent actions. Anyone can send the message of attack, but who will send it? In fact, it only needs to add a cost, that is, only one node can spread information in a period of time. When a node sends a unified attack message, each node must sign and seal to confirm its identity when receiving the message from the initiator
blockchain core algorithm 3: fault tolerance problem
we assume that in this network, messages may be lost, damaged, delayed and sent repeatedly, and the order of receiving is inconsistent with the order of sending. In addition, the behavior of nodes can be arbitrary: they can join or exit the network at any time, they can discard messages, forge messages, stop working and so on, and they may also have all kinds of human or non-human failures. Our algorithm provides fault tolerance for consensus system composed of consensus nodes, which includes both security and availability, and is suitable for any network environment
blockchain core algorithm 4: Paxos algorithm (consistency algorithm)
the problem solved by Paxos algorithm is how a distributed system can reach an agreement on a certain value (decision). A typical scenario is that in a distributed database system, if the initial state of each node is consistent, and each node performs the same operation sequence, then they can finally get a consistent state. In order to ensure that each node executes the same command sequence, it is necessary to execute a "consistency algorithm" on each instruction to ensure that the instructions seen by each node are consistent. A general consistency algorithm can be applied in many scenarios, which is an important problem in distributed computing. There are two models of node communication: shared memory and message passing. Paxos algorithm is a consistency algorithm based on message passing model
blockchain core algorithm 5: consensus mechanism
blockchain consensus algorithm is mainly workload proof and equity proof. Take bitcoin as an example. In fact, from a technical point of view, POW can be regarded as a reusable hashcash, and the generation workload proves to be a random process in probability. When mining a new secret currency and generating a block, the consent of all participants must be obtained, and the miner must obtain the pow work proof of all data in the block. At the same time, miners have to constantly observe and adjust the difficulty of this work, because the requirement for the network is to generate a block every 10 minutes on average
blockchain core algorithm 6: distributed storage is a kind of data storage technology, which uses the disk space of each machine through the network, and forms a virtual storage device with these scattered storage resources, and the data is stored in every corner of the network. Therefore, distributed storage technology does not store complete data in each computer, but stores the data in different computers after cutting. It's like storing 100 eggs, not in the same basket, but separately in different places. The total number is 100. Want to learn more, you can make more use of network search, network search results - small knowledge
the development of blockchain application technology is more in the use of its decentralized and tamper proof technology. These two characteristics successfully push the blockchain application technology to the world. People suddenly realize that in this lack of trust society, there can be a technology to change the status quo, and do not need to go through a third party, Completely decentralized technology
if this technology can be popularized, it will be a breakthrough, so the development of blockchain application technology has become the focus of research and development in various countries and regions.
imagine that in Byzantine times, there was a rich city-state with all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin, and its Lord Doraemon enjoyed all the luxury and glory. On the outskirts of the city-state, four Byzantine Generals, Daxiong, panghu, Xiaofu and Jingxiang, coveted Doraemon's wealth, so they decided to join hands to capture Doraemon's city-state. According to the strength comparison between the two sides, more than half of the generals must attack at the same time to defeat the enemy, so the winning condition is that at least three of the four can agree on the attack time. What are the odds of the four generals
the answer to this question depends on the cooperation mode of the four people. If it is a centralized system and there is an alliance leader, such as panghu (equivalent to a central server), then there is no doubt about their victory, because it is very easy to reach an agreement on the attack time. As long as panghu calls Daxiong, Xiaofu and Jingxiang to have a meeting to discuss it, Even if we have different opinions, panghu can make a final decision. Now let's go back to the assumption of Byzantine Generals. In a distributed network without trust, what are the odds of four generals winning< br />
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first of all, e to the lack of trust between the four generals, the possibility of gathering in a small dark room for a conspiracy meeting is ruled out (what if they are kidnapped by panghu in a small dark room?); Secondly, since there is no leader, the opinions of all four people will be equally valued. In this case, the four generals could only negotiate the attack time by sending messages between their camps by messenger. For example, if Daxiong thinks 6 a.m. is a good time to launch an attack, he will send messengers to tell panghu, Xiaofu and Jingxiang their opinions. At the same time, panghu may think it's better to launch a surprise attack at 9 p.m., Xiaofu prefers to launch an attack at 3 p.m., and Jingxiang hopes that it will be 10 a.m., and the three of them will send their own messengers at the same time. In this way, after the first round of communication, each of the four generals had four attack times to choose from, and each of them had to inform the other three of their chosen time in the next round of communication. Because four people make decisions independently, there are 256 possible final choices. Only when more than three people choose the same time can consensus be reached, and there are only 64 such results, that is to say, the probability of reaching consensus is only 1 / 4. This is only the case of four generals. What if the number of generals is 10, 100 or 1000? With a little calculation, we can see that as the number of people increases, the hope of reaching a consensus will become increasingly dim
change the general in the above example into the node in the computer network, the messenger into the communication between nodes, and the attack time into the information that needs to reach a consensus. Then you can understand the dilemma described by the consensus problem. The ability to reach a consensus is self-evident for a payment system. If you remit a sum of money to your family to buy a car and go to the bank the next day for verification, the counter will tell you "about how much money you remit, there are three versions of records in our system". Obviously, you dare not deposit money in such a bank. Before the emergence of bitcoin, the consensus problem is difficult to be solved perfectly. In order to reach a consensus, we need to adopt a centralized system (unless the nodes meet certain conditions), and in order to decentralize the consensus, we can't guarantee it. So how does blockchain technology solve this problem Pay attention to the official account weoption, reply to "block chain", you can view the full text.