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The strict definition of blockchain refers to the distributed database technology that multiple nodes in peer-to-peer network jointly maintain a continuously growing list ledger constructed by time stamp and orderly record data blocks through consensus mechanism based on cryptography technology. This technical solution allows any number of nodes in the participating system to calculate and record all the information exchange data in the system in a period of time to a data block through cryptography algorithm, and generate the fingerprint of the data block for linking the next data block and checking. All participating nodes in the system jointly determine whether the record is true
blockchain is a technical solution similar to NoSQL (non relational database). It is not a specific technology, and can be implemented through many programming languages and architectures. There are many ways to realize blockchain, including pow (proof of work), POS (proof of stake), dpos (delegate proof of stake), etc
the concept of blockchain was first proposed in the paper "bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system" by indivials (or groups) who call themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. Therefore, bitcoin can be regarded as the first application of blockchain in the field of financial payment
< H2 > [popular explanation]no matter how big the system or how small the website is, there is a database behind it. So who will maintain this database? In general, who is responsible for the operation of the network or system, then who is responsible for the maintenance. If it is wechat database, it must be maintained by Tencent team, and Taobao database is maintained by Alibaba team. We must think that this way is natural, but blockchain technology is not P>
if we think of the database as a book, for example, Alipay is a typical account book. Any change of data is bookkeeping. We can think of database maintenance as a very simple way of accounting. In the world of blockchain, everyone in the blockchain system has the opportunity to participate in bookkeeping. The system will select the fastest and best bookkeeper in a period of time, maybe within ten seconds or ten minutes. The bookkeeper will record the changes of the database and the account book in a block. We can think of this block as a page. After the system confirms that the records are correct, the system will record the changes of the database and the account book in a block, It will link the fingerprint of the past account book to this paper, and then send this paper to everyone else in the whole system. Then, over and over again, the system will look for the next person with fast and good bookkeeping, and everyone else in the system will get a of the whole ledger. This means that everyone as like as two peas in the system is called Blockchain. It is also called distributed account technology. P>
as like as two peas (computer) have identical accounting books, and everyone has the same rights, they will not collapse e to the loss of contact or downtime of a single person. As like as two peas, the data is transparent and everyone can see what changes are in every account. Its very interesting feature is that the data can't be tampered with. Because the system will automatically compare, it will think that the same number of books with the largest number are real books, and a small number of books with different numbers are false books. In this case, it's meaningless for anyone to tamper with his own account book, because unless you can tamper with most nodes in the whole system. If there are only five or ten nodes in the whole system, it may be easy to do so. However, if there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of nodes and they are distributed in any corner of the Internet, unless someone can control most computers in the world, it is unlikely to tamper with such a large block chain
< H2 > [elements]combined with the definition of blockchain, we think that we must have the following four elements to be called public blockchain technology. If we only have the first three elements, we will consider it as private blockchain Technology (private chain)
1, peer-to-peer network (power equivalence, physical point-to-point connection)
2, verifiable data structure (verifiable PKC system, non tampering database)
3, distributed consensus mechanism (Solving Byzantine general problem, solving double payment)
4 Game design of Nash equilibrium (cooperation is the strategy of evolutionary stability)
combined with the definition of blockchain, blockchain will realize four main characteristics: decentralized, trustless, collective maintenance and reliable database. And the other two will be derived from the four characteristics Features: open source Privacy. If a system does not have these characteristics, it can not be regarded as an application based on blockchain technology
Decentralized: there is no centralized hardware or management organization in the whole network. The rights and obligations of any node are equal, and the damage or loss of any node will not affect the operation of the whole system. Therefore, it can also be considered that the blockchain system has excellent robustnesstrustworthiness: there is no need to trust each other when participating in the data exchange between each node in the whole system. The operation rules of the whole system are open and transparent, and all data contents are also open. Therefore, within the specified rule range and time range of the system, nodes cannot and cannot cheat other nodes
collective maintenance: the data blocks in the system are maintained by all the nodes with maintenance function in the whole system, and these nodes with maintenance function can be participated by anyone
reliable database: the whole system will enable each participating node to obtain a of the complete database in the form of sub databases. Unless more than 51% of the nodes in the whole system can be controlled at the same time, the modification of the database on a single node is invalid, and the data content on other nodes cannot be affected. Therefore, the more nodes and computing power in the system, the higher the data security in the system
Open Source: since the operation rules of the whole system must be open and transparent, the whole system must be open source for the program
Privacy Protection: since there is no need to trust each other between nodes, there is no need to disclose the identity between nodes, and the privacy of each participating node in the system is protected
At present, whether a digital currency is a valuable currency basically belongs to the "angel wheel" stage. There are three criteria to determine whether a digital currency is a valuable currency: one is the team, the other is the economic model, and the third is the instry demand
The randomness of theteam is too great, so we will not discuss it here. This paper first makes a detailed analysis of the economic model of digital currency. In the following article, the author will analyze some digital currencies according to different instries
Strictly speaking, the economic model involved in this paper is not completely equivalent to the concept described in economics. Especially in digital currency, currency consensus mechanism and incentive mechanism Consensus mechanism is the strategy and method for each node in the blockchain system to reach an agreement, which should be selected flexibly according to the different types of system and application scenarioscommon consensus mechanisms include pow, POS, dpos, pbft (and its variants), etc. In addition, based on the different application scenarios of blockchain technology and the characteristics of various consensus mechanisms, this paper evaluates the technical level of various consensus mechanisms according to the following dimensions:
A) compliance supervision: whether super permission nodes are supported to supervise the nodes and data of the whole network
b) performance efficiency: the efficiency of reaching a consensus and being confirmed
Resource consumption: CPU, network input and output, storage and other computer resources consumed in the process of consensusd) fault tolerance: the ability to prevent attacks and fraud
1 instry background
looking for Instry pain points: asset management needs professional team and knowledge, but now most digital currency investors do not have it; The fluctuation of digital money market is huge, and investors can't keep the value of assets in the falling market
2 own advantages
in the stock and futures markets for many years, has a mature and high-quality asset management team; AI big data team has strong technical strength
3 Market Research
after market research, it is estimated that the market value of asset management will be about US $1 billion in the next five years
4 total amount of digital currency
after considering the expected asset management market value, development cycle and difficulty, we will consider issuing 2 billion pieces of XT based on Ethereum erc20 digital currency, and never issue additional ones
5 allocation method
early stage investors hold 10%, teams hold 20%, business operation 10%, community construction 10%, and investors hold 50%
6 digital currency release / repo mechanism
the release mechanism can be divided into three categories:
the first category: the money holding part of business operation is fully unlocked, and the purpose is limited to business and operation activities
the second type: the release mechanism of community construction is that community members release exclusive information, cooperation platform release exclusive project progress and so on. According to the number of participating IDS, the corresponding proportion of XT is released (publishers and participants get 50% each) until all the releases are completed (after the release, the follow-up reward comes from the platform profit pool)
the third category: investors hold the mainstream digital currency, conct asset management in the platform, release a certain amount of XT according to the exchange ratio, and the early investors and the team hold part of it synchronously and unlock it according to the proportion
the repo mechanism is: 50% of the profit (in XT) will be returned to the holder; The rest goes into the platform profit pool, and 50% of XT in the profit pool is destroyed monthly until the total number of XT is 1 billion; The rest will be used as platform ecological construction fund
7 digital currency equity
profit sharing: holding XT is for platform users, and they can enjoy 50% of platform profits
platform Governance: participating in platform activities, enjoying XT awards and airdrop activities of other project parties
function customization: Based on platform AI big data, investors can purchase services optimized for indivial trading strategies
-- for the above data sources and analysis, please refer to analysis report on market outlook and investment strategic planning of China's blockchain instry of foresight Instry Research Institute
the research process of instry technology is constantly advancing
in recent years, the research process of global blockchain technology has accelerated, and the number of instry patent applications has increased rapidly. According to sopat statistics, from 2014 to 2018, the number of global blockchain patents continued to rise, and by 2018, the number of global blockchain patent applications had reached 2966. Among them, the number of patents in China's blockchain in 2018 accounted for 33.33% of the total number of patents in 2014, and increased to 82.1% in 2018
however, despite the continuous development and innovation of global blockchain technology in recent years, there is no universal evaluation standard and system to specify the technical performance, efficiency, scalability, security and other issues of blockchain. On the whole, blockchain technology needs further breakthrough
China's blockchain technology tends to serve applications
in terms of technology, the core of China's blockchain technology is to serve physical applications, while the US blockchain technology is still solving the potential problems of blockchain, which leads to the domestic focus on alliance chain applications, We hope to optimize the blockchain technology to meet the requirements of high concurrency applications; Foreign countries focus on the application of public chain, and carry out the optimization and innovation of core technology according to the characteristics of public chain. In terms of application, domestic blockchain focuses on the application of service instry and tends to be "non currency blockchain"; Most of the U.S. is a public chain, which tends to the circulation of digital assets
e to the high network delay in peer-to-peer network, the transaction order observed by each node can not be completely consistent. Therefore, the blockchain system needs to design a mechanism to reach a consensus on the sequence of transactions that occur in the same time. This algorithm to reach consensus on the order of transactions in a time window is called consensus mechanism
-- chainknow
the information in the blockchain can not be tampered, that is to say, the information recorded on the blockchain can be used to achieve the goal of traceability as long as the source is correct
in general, this technology is mostly used for commodity traceability, and the blockchain traceability technology can be understood in cryptography.