July 2018 blockchain
1. Germination stage: the real germination stage of blockchain was from 2007 to 2009. In 2008, a Japanese American with the pseudonym of Nakamoto first expounded a new fantasy report on electronic money in the form of a synonym on the cryptography discussion group, and bitcoin came out. As early as 2007, Nakamoto began to explore a series of new technologies to create a new currency. On October 31, 2008, bitcoin white paper was released, and on January 3, 2009, bitcoin system officially began to operate
the main technologies supporting bitcoin system include hash function, distributed ledger, blockchain and asymmetric encryption; It can be seen that these technologies build the initial version of the blockchain, and it can also be said that the blockchain is the underlying technology of bitcoin. During the three years from 2007 to 2009, bitcoin was an experimental stage in which a very small number of people participated, and the real commercial activities had not really started
2. "Geek" niche stage: here, "geek" refers to people who are crazy about Internet technology and take technological innovation as fashion and life. On February 6, 2010, the first exchange of bitcoin appeared. On May 22 of the same year, someone bought two hamburgers with 10000 bitcoins. On July 17 of the same year, the exchange Mt. GOx was established, marking the official inflow of bitcoin into the market. Nevertheless, the only people who can really understand and enter the market to participate in bitcoin trading are geeks who are keen on Internet technology. They discuss bitcoin technology on the forum, mine for bitcoin on their own computers, and then buy and sell bitcoin on Mt. GOx. Now these geeks have become billionaires
3. Market brewing stage: the price of bitcoin was $13 at the beginning of 2013, but on March 18 of the same year, the government of Cyprus closed the bank and stock market e to the financial crisis, which made the price of bitcoin soar, and the highest price rose to $266 in April. On August 20 of the same year, the German government confirmed the currency status of bitcoin. On October 14, China network announced the opening of bitcoin payment channel. In November, the US Senate hearing also confirmed the legitimacy of bitcoin. On November 19, the price of bitcoin rose to US $1242, forming a new high. Nevertheless, the foundation for blockchain to enter the mainstream social economy is not yet available, and the soaring price of bitcoin is only e to over optimistic expectations. The containment of China's banking system, the collapse of Mt. GOx and other events made the price of bitcoin continue to fall. At the beginning of 2015, the price of bitcoin has dropped below $200. From 2013 to the beginning of 2015, the public began to understand bitcoin and blockchain
4. The mainstream period of blockchain: on June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom left the European Union, the fifth nuclear test of North Korea in September, Trump's election in November and other events, the uncertainty of the world's mainstream economy led to the recovery of bitcoin with the function of risk aversion. The market demand was large, and the increase of trading volume made the price of bitcoin soar from $400 in 2016 to $20000 in 2017, The wealth effect of bitcoin and the transaction overflow caused by network congestion of bitcoin have led to the outbreak of other series of virtual currencies, as well as a variety of blockchain applications, resulting in the emergence of a large number of blockchain assets that are 100 times, even 1000 times and 10000 times, which has aroused the crazy pursuit of the world, Subsequently, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched bitcoin futures trading, marking that bitcoin has officially entered the mainstream investment proct series, and bitcoin and blockchain have entered the global attention
5. Instry landing stage: after the market frenzy in 2017, the virtual currency and blockchain have been adjusted in terms of market, supervision, cognition, etc. in 2018, returning to rationality. In 2017, many blockchain projects that follow the blockchain technology will graally die out with the cooling of the market, and the projects with real blockchain applications will be initially implemented. 2018 is not only the first year of the blockchain, but also a gold rush period for the blockchain. After the waves wash away the sand, what remains is relatively good gold
from the perspective of the history of blockchain development, blockchain technology is not yet mature and is currently in the growth period. The specific practical application of blockchain is only used in the financial field. It still needs a long way to go to apply blockchain from other instries. However, we should grasp the trend of blockchain and actively learn from the new field of blockchain.
in the Internet era, there is a database behind every system. This database can be regarded as a large account book. In the past, the person who maintained the system was responsible for managing the database and recording the user's behavior, that is, bookkeeping. However, the blockchain is "decentralized", which allows every member of the system to participate in it, not only everyone bookkeeping, but also through links, Everyone can have a complete account book
"blockchain is essentially a collective recording mode. What's special is that it adopts a set of techniques in an ingenious way to realize the authenticity and credibility of the recorded results, which is difficult to destroy and tamper with. " Zhang Xiaorong said, "first, everyone has the right to record and authenticate with each other to distinguish the true from the false, which is called consensus mechanism; Second, no one can tamper with the records, because there are cryptographic signatures; Third, everyone has a , so even if some account books are damaged, the whole will not be affected. This is called distributed storage. The information recorded in this way is presented in block mode according to the time chain, so it is called blockchain. "
various cryptocurrencies represented by bitcoin are originally an application of blockchain technology, which can be described as blockchain version 1.0. However, around 2014, the instry began to realize the important value of blockchain technology. Blockchain graally separated from digital currency and applied to various economic and social fields other than digital currency
it has broad application prospects
blockchain technology is considered as a disruptive innovation after steam engine, electric power and Internet. If the steam engine and electricity liberate the proctivity, and the Internet has changed the way of information transmission, the blockchain, as a machine for building trust, may change the way of value transmission
for example, in the financial field, the cost of reconciliation, clearing and settlement between financial institutions, especially cross-border financial institutions, has always been very high, and there are complex manual processes. The application of blockchain technology can help rece the cost of reconciliation and dispute resolution between financial institutions, and significantly improve the processing speed and efficiency of payment business, It also makes small cross-border payments possible. In December 2017, China Merchants Bank completed the RMB position transfer business from Hongkong Wing Lung Bank to Shenzhen Branch of Wing Lung Bank. This is the world's first interbank cross-border RMB clearing business based on blockchain technology
in addition, according to the white paper 2016 on China's blockchain technology and application development issued by the Ministry of instry and information technology of China, the application of blockchain has been extended to medical and health, ecation, charity, social management and other fields. Taking the cultural instry as an example, the low cost of reproction, the high cost of safeguarding rights, and the difficulty of providing evidence make the protection of intellectual property rights a pain point for the instry. With blockchain, the proction, dissemination and transaction records of cultural procts are true, transparent and reliable, and the problem can be solved
Zhang Xiaorong said that blockchain technology has solved two major problems in the era of Digital Economy: one is the visible flow direction, and the other is zero trust cost. In the past, the circulation of physical paper money was invisible, but the flow of all digital assets had a "chain" to check. Yang Yanchao, a researcher at the intellectual property center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, also believes that the biggest advantage of blockchain is that it has truly completed the credit construction in an anonymous society, bringing new opportunities to many fields, thus making various innovative applications possible
there is a long way to go in the future development
in terms of technology promotion, there is no big barrier to blockchain, which has been confirmed in the global practice of bitcoin, and its main resistance comes from the obstacles in concept and implementation
"on the one hand, the society may be very concerned about the" naked "state in the blockchain. Blockchain has built a "Skynet" for the commercial society. The company's economic activities are all recorded, so there is no secret to speak of. In this way, some business strategies may not be implemented under the blockchain. "
"on the other hand, the current legal system lags behind the development of information technology, so how to put the emerging blockchain technology under the legal supervision needs to be studied." Duan Yongchao said
the core of blockchain is decentralization, which will have an impact on the long-standing central management model. In addition to the law, how to establish a regulatory environment that can promote the application of blockchain technology, so that the technology can benefit the society and not be used to do evil, is also an urgent problem to be solved.
in the early stage of the development of the blockchain instry, many enterprises and institutions formed a blockchain alliance to share the research results of blockchain technology and seek wider application of blockchain technology
in the past two years, blockchain alliances have emerged. As of July 2017, there are R3 composed of more than 40 international banks, hyperledger initiated by Linux foundation, Zhongguancun blockchain Instry Alliance located in the core hinterland of China's Internet, China ledger alliance jointly initiated by 11 institutions, gold chain alliance jointly established by 25 financial institutions, and so on Russia's blockchain alliance, known as "Russian version R3", seeks to combine with micro finance, Qianhai international blockchain ecosphere alliance led by Shenzhen Qianhai administration, and Lujiazui blockchain Financial Development Alliance in Lujiazui
many organizations and talents join to promote the vigorous development of blockchain.
what benefits most from this is the domestic currency circle. In 2017, digital currency and related fund-raising activities were banned in China, which is quite negative in the eyes of ordinary people. In fact, the central bank's initiative to explore into cryptocurrency is the recognition of the core concept of digital currency. With this incentive, domestic enterprises will actively enter the instry and inject fresh blood into the instry, which is the most important
about this, you can see the reports of blockchain media, such as golden finance, coin easy to know column, chain news and so on.
On July 29, 2018, the blockchain brand salon seminar hosted by DataView (Beijing) Media Technology Co., Ltd. was held in Beijing. The purpose of this salon is to discuss the current situation and future of blockchain instry development in an in-depth way through expert sharing, dialogue and discussion
Zhao Yong, founder and CEO of cereal.com, believes that blockchain technology is inherently combined with right, which can bring new opportunities for change in right protection and solve the problems of traditional centralized right service, such as right confirmation, transaction and protection Some people in the instry believe that at present, China's right service institutions are not perfect, the relevant legal system is not perfect, right protection is still in the primary stage, and the right instry is facing serious problems and challengesthe salon was hosted by Guiyang blockchain development and application promotion headquarters, and undertaken by data officer and Information Technology Research Institute
content source: zhongxin.com
Speaking of blockchain, it can be said that there is not a ten million level landing project at present, but because of this, the imagination of blockchain is very large. At present, major companies in various countries are laying out blockchain technology, but most of them are small-scale applications or pilot projects, but it is also worth mentioning:
1. Blockchain + electronic invoice
on August 10, 2018, the first electronic invoice of blockchain in China was launched in Shenzhen. The blockchain e-invoice is linked with traditional e-invoice and simple e-invoice. This time, the blockchain e-invoice integrates two streams of "capital flow and invoice flow", combines invoice issuing with online payment, and opens up the whole process of invoice application, invoice issuing, reimbursement and tax declaration
the Shuqin core team has been committed to the research and application of blockchain technology since 2013. At the beginning, the Shuqin team wanted to combine the blockchain technology with the Internet finance at that time. However, how to ensure that the data stored in blockchain technology is recognized by the existing judicial system? Shuqin found that the development of the whole blockchain instry will face the same problem: judicial effectiveness! In order to solve the problem of this instry, the team of Shuqin established the security network
in this difficult problem that even Ali could not solve at that time. In order to establish a connection with the existing judicial system, the team found qianmai, the only data authentication center in Zhejiang Province at that time, and set up Qianxin with them. After many efforts, in 2016, Qianxin issued the first electronic evidence forensic certificate based on blockchain
relying on the security network, a platform connected with the basic rules of society, based on the vision of building a new digital economic ecosystem, Shuqin technology has constructed the "technology + data + instry" ecology from the blockchain data center infrastructure to the public chain and sub chain, alliance chain, and designed the leading trusted account book, DAPP application, data proction means, data management system Through the effective value data exchange based on the consensus mechanism, the virtuous circle of Tongzheng economy can enable the real economy
in this regard, Tian Dachao, founder of chain fir capital, the incubation team of Shuqin technology, commented that Shuqin technology will be one of the most potential enterprises in the future development process of blockchain. It is reported that chain fir capital is the world's leading digital technology investment bank and digital asset management company. It provides the whole process investment bank and encrypted digital asset investment management services of blockchain project investment, incubation, financing, transaction and community, and is committed to providing financial and instrial capital integration solutions that create far-reaching value for investors, enterprises and instries, Strive to build a unicorn in the future blockchain field
blockchain is still in its infancy, but its development potential can not be underestimated. In the near future, there will be a steady stream of enterprises joining the blockchain instry or using blockchain technology. Lianshan capital, led by Tian Dachao, is doing something like this to explore more valuable, ideal and future enterprises focusing on the underlying technology of the blockchain, so as to give them wings to take off, so as to make the blockchain landing faster and create value for the society