Blockchain is a new word you must know

1. Because at this stage, all the right issues in China are in an exploratory stage, and the system is not yet complete, so the blockchain can not solve the right problem.

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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

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)

< H2 > [Characteristics]

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 robustness

trustworthiness: 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

3. Blockchain is a technical solution to maintain a reliable database collectively through centralization and distrust in the past. Now there are many procts and applications based on blockchain technology. Lifechain is a medical and nursing enterprise based on blockchain technology. You can learn about it.

4. Here is about what blockchain is, but if Xiao wants to have a deep understanding of blockchain, he still needs to read more relevant articles
blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger. Blockchain is not something. You can think of it as the Internet. No one will think that the Internet is an object. Blockchain is a new model. If we think of it as an account book, it means that all transaction information is in this book. Due to the characteristics of decentralization, it is not subject to the jurisdiction of a third party

blockchain is a decentralized database in essence. Once the contents in the database are recorded in the chain, they cannot be tampered with, and all the contents can be traced back to their source. The centralized procts may be tampered by the jurisdictional party. Therefore, blockchain traceability is also commonly used to trace the source of goods
there is still a lot of knowledge about blockchain, which is just a simple concept. In depth understanding, we need to take time to look at the news and learn about its landing applications. We can see more about password finance.

5. The term blockchain comes from bitcoin, and it is also the underlying technology of bitcoin. In short, it is an account book with incentive system. In an open transaction, everyone can keep an account according to their computing power, keep the account book updated and the transaction going on, and those who successfully keep an account will be rewarded (bitcoin), Through such self motivation, the operation mechanism that does not rely on any company or organization is called blockchain

6. In my opinion, risk and security awareness must be understood. You can see whether the token issued by the blockchain project you want to invest in has been put on a large trading platform. If the token of a project is not put on the exchange or the landing trading platform is a small exchange unheard of, then investors need to be more vigilant. At present, the largest exchange in China is okex, and small trading platforms have the risk of running away. New people should never touch it. You can go directly to the official website of okex.

7. Forget it, this must be a professional mine, and the power expenditure and investment in basic equipment
it's estimated that the virtual currency that ordinary people can't afford is not easy to make, so don't think about it any more.

8. For now, blockchain seems to be an illusory word. In fact, there is no need to create such strange words. It's also called blockchain. It's just an instry. One by one. An organization. Chinese characters are enough. Four words is enough, and then we can create a blockchain. It's not interesting at all. What's the point of creating new words? Do things in a down-to-earth way, in a down-to-earth way. Just call the original name. There's no need for that.