Blockchain bit continent

At the end of March this year, bitmainland launched an ant miner X3 based on ASIC, which is mainly aimed at Monroe coin (XmR) and cryptonight algorithm dependent cryptocurrency. Monroe coin immediately issued a counter statement that it will change the core algorithm to fight against the invasion of ASIC computing power

what would be the result if it appeared in the world of digital cryptocurrency? That is, the wrong calculation results may be brought into the whole network without being discovered

after all, the "calculation" in the field of crypto digital currency is not as simple as 1 + 2 + 3. You can't compare paper currency with special currency by hand

the practical significance of computing power monopoly in mainland China

we have learned about attacks based on 51% computing power in various articles

but the reality is that although the global power of 78% was in Chinese mainland, fortunately, they were scattered in different pools and controlled by different people. p>

although all POW based cryptocurrencies have the risk of being attacked by 51%, few people can really launch attacks e to the dispersion of computing power

but what if the miners themselves don't want to attack, but the mining machinery manufacturers attack

still using the analogy just now, although each miner subjectively wants to do the problem checking independently, their calculator is manipulated remotely and gives consistent wrong answers. This may pose a great threat to digital cryptocurrency

however, the manufacturer with the absolute voice of mining machinery had such a problem in mainland China

in April 2017, the back door of antbled came out. Although this is described as a "vulnerability" in Chinese, antbled is more like a function that has been implemented and designed

anonymous people found that after an ant miner made by bitmainland was connected to the network, it would communicate with a domain name held by bitmainland on a regular basis and return the miner's serial number, MAC address and IP address to bitmainland's server. If the server of bitcontinent gives a negative signal, the miner will stop running

although bitcontinental responded that they could not shut down any mining machines that did not belong to them. However, the bitcoin core team has proved in experiments that this function has no verification. Anyone can shut down mining machines by forging DNS - but it also means that bitcoin mainland has the ability to shut down any sold mining machines

, bitcontinent fixed this "loophole", but it caused heated discussion in the community. This has also set the tone that almost all pow blockchain communities are biased against mainland China

a few months later, under the leadership of bitcontinent, viabtc g out the first block and made a hard bifurcation with the blockchain of bitcoin. From then on, bitcoin BCH (bitcoin cash) appeared in the world

will the monopoly of mining machinery destroy the distributed system

facing this problem, we should have a clear answer now. That is, the monopoly of mining machinery will certainly affect the safe operation of pow digital cryptocurrency

the problem is not whether bitcontinental and its founder Wu Jihan are trustworthy, but that one of the values of any blockchain system is to operate safely without trust in any single company or indivial

even if the ASIC miner is not monopolized by bitmainland, the ASIC miner itself will increase the concentration of computing power

the ASIC used for mining has great requirements for ventilation, power and site, and has no use except for mining. At the same time, the calculation difficulty of the whole network is increased e to the powerful computing power

as a result, it is very difficult for external players to start mining in the next software on the computer as they did five years ago. And the recent centralized exchange is caused by frequent black incidents, which also proves that concentration in this unregulated market will definitely lead to insecurity

assuming that the bitcoin network runs on top of one million miners, no one can shut it down. And if the bitcoin network runs on 20 large mines, it's much easier to shut it down

and by the end of 2017, 78% of the effort was concentrated in mainland China, which led to a real possibility of Chinese mainland regulators' launching a deadly attack against the special currency. p>

moreover, most of the scenarios of using digital cryptocurrency are related to "decentralization". Once centralized, it means that these scenarios no longer exist. It turns a project that might have value into a pure waste of computing power

first of all, as the project side, it may be time to give up the pure POW mechanism. In fact, in many projects of issuing cryptocurrency, especially in asset securitization projects. Similar to the concept of stock in the real world, POS itself is more reasonable than pow

in the media that don't know about blockchain, we often hear such words as "bitcoin wastes a lot of computing power and has no value", which is reasonable to some extent. It is difficult for a POW based blockchain to bind the value of the project itself to the issued digital cryptocurrency - because the real value behind the price of the currency does not come from the project, but from the cost of maintaining computing power

and the hybrid mode of pow + POS is more like the future. In the hybrid mode, both coin holders and miners can participate in the major decisions of this community. If a decision is widely accepted, the blockchain will be soft forked to the latest state without excessive intervention of developers, and there will be almost no private resistance of miners or mining machines

secondly, as a retail miner, if you are still digging a pure POW mechanism currency, you should unconditionally support the bifurcation activities initiated by the community to resist the ASIC mining machine, even if it will lead to the failure of your mining machine

this may sound contradictory, but in the long run, it is better to promote the reform of the community and get more benefits in a currency controlled by the monopoly of computing power. Because in many conflicts between computing power and community in the past, the ultimate result is that the computing power owner will forcibly keep the old algorithm to hard fork the blockchain

just like Eth and etc, the classic Ethereum (etc), which belongs to the computing power master, has lost the support of developers and become an air coin with no vitality and impossible to develop applications

as a retail leek, you should be careful to trade the non mainstream digital currencies (except bitcoin) supported by bitmainland mining machinery, so as to avoid falling into a blockchain in which bitmainland controls the computing power completely

finally, if you are bitcontinent, what should you do

bitcontinent's goal is to become Intel, AMD and NVIDIA, make greater contributions to the whole computer instry, and become a great company, not just entangled in the immediate interests of mining

Wall Street financiers have long seen through the violence brought about by NVIDIA's video card mining. The rise and fall of the company's stock price has been consistent with the price of bitcoin, and even affected by the digital currency market. Citron, a well-known short seller, has recently been bearish on NVIDIA, arguing that the company has focused too much on providing services for digital currency miners rather than on serious businesses such as artificial intelligence, games and driverless driving

the mission of chip manufacturers is to provide more powerful chips to drive more intelligent services, and finally contribute to the real world, rather than become monopoly tycoons in the virtual world. When we no longer enter the gate of the virtual world, the only thing left is a deserted land

in an interview with US media last year, Wu Jihan disclosed that he would make an IPO with a market value of billions of dollars. As a company about to go public, bitmainland should not only be responsible to investors, but also accept investors' questions about the sustainability of its business. "If your mining machinery goes public, it will encounter a fork, what should you do?"

and this question, which needs to be asked after the listing, has already appeared: the current price of the split coin xmo after the Monroe team split is $7.50, while the current price of the real Monroe coin XmR is $194, and the split coin is completely abandoned by the Monroe community

before bitcontinent becomes the name of all blockchain communities, we can rely on the huge amount of capital accumulated in recent years to transform into an artificial intelligence chip company along the previous plan, rather than continue to develop a variety of digital currency mining machines to extract the last drop of oil before the ecological collapse

content source: phoenix.com

Original title: China's blockchain instry market status and development trend analysis in 2019, widely used to accelerate the construction of Digital China. Basically, a relatively mature instrial chain has been formed. With the promotion of national policies and the increasing demand of downstream application fields, the market scale of China's blockchain instry is constantly developing, the regional concentration is high, and the instrial cluster effect is obvious. With the increasing maturity of blockchain technology, the blockchain instry is entering the 3.0 stage as a whole. It has a good performance in finance, logistics, right protection and other fields, and has made great contributions to promoting China's digital construction and accelerating the process of Digital China

instrial chain analysis of blockchain instry: there are many downstream application fields with huge development potential

from the perspective of instrial chain, China's blockchain instry includes upstream hardware, technology and infrastructure; Midstream blockchain application and technical services

application fields of downstream blockchain. The upstream hardware, technology and infrastructure mainly provide the necessary hardware, technology and infrastructure support for blockchain application. The hardware equipment includes mining machinery, ore pool, chip manufacturer, etc; General technologies include distributed storage, decentralized transaction, data service, distributed computing and other related technologies

the downstream application fields include the combination of application blockchain technology and existing instries, mainly including financial instry, logistics instry, right protection, medical health, instrial energy and many other fields. As an emerging technology, blockchain has many downstream application fields and great development potential

the application and service of midstream blockchain includes the construction of infrastructure platform and the provision of technical service support. The construction of infrastructure platform is divided into general infrastructure chain and vertical domain infrastructure chain; Technical service support includes technical support and service support. Similar to upstream technology, technical support is responsible for providing buyers with a series of technical support based on blockchain procts, such as blockchain security protection; Service support includes a series of services such as digital asset trading place, digital asset storage, media community, etc

instry chain analysis of blockchain instry Most of 360 and other enterprises use their own financial companies to apply blockchain technology to launch a new mode of blockchain + finance and broaden the application scenarios of blockchain technology

With the continuous development of China's blockchain technology and the continuous expansion of blockchain application fields, China's blockchain instry will become the forefront of global technology development and open up a new international competition track in the future

2. Blockchain has become a new hot spot for innovation and entrepreneurship, and technology integration will expand new application space

3. Blockchain will be widely implemented in the real economy in the next three years and become an important support for the construction of Digital China

4. Blockchain creates a new platform economy and opens a new era of sharing economy

5. Blockchain accelerates the process of "credible digitization" and drives finance to "move from virtual to real" to serve the real economy

The blockchain supervision and standard system will be further improved, and the instrial development foundation will continue to be consolidated

Blockchain platforms include Ethereum, Asch and other underlying application development platforms

Ethereum, an open source public blockchain platform with smart contract function, provides decentralized Ethereum virtual machine to process point-to-point contract through its special cryptocurrency ether (ETH)

arch, a decentralized application platform based on side chain technology. Asch is designed to lower the threshold of developers, such as using JavaScript as the application programming language and supporting relational database to store transaction data, which is believed to be very attractive to developers and small and medium-sized enterprises

extended data

in 2008, Nakamoto first proposed the concept of blockchain. In the following years, blockchain has become the core component of electronic currency bitcoin: public account book for all transactions

by using peer-to-peer network and distributed timestamp server, the blockchain database can be managed independently. The blockchain invented for bitcoin makes it the first digital currency to solve the problem of repeated consumption. Bitcoin's design is a source of inspiration for other applications

bitcoin is the absolute mainstream of digital currency, and digital currency is in full bloom. Bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin, dashcoin are common. In addition to currency application, there are various derivative applications, such as Ethereum, Asch and other underlying application development platforms, as well as NXT, SIA, bitstocks, maidsafe, ripple and other instrial applications

By the end of 2019, the number of blockchain research institutions in China has reached 97. In addition, domestic colleges and universities have arranged blockchain technology research, strengthened theoretical knowledge innovation of blockchain technology, and improved their blockchain technology R & D capability. By the end of 2019, there are 24 colleges and universities in China participating in strengthening blockchain technology R & D. The core technologies are mainly distributed in consensus algorithm, cross chain, underlying architecture and multi chain

in 2020, the blockchain instry will be further standardized

in 2020, China's blockchain policy will continue to be favorable, the standards and specifications will be more perfect, the instrial scale will continue to grow, the technology will continue to innovate and develop, and the application demonstration effect in key fields will accelerate. At the same time, according to the problems existing in the development of China's blockchain in 2019, CCID blockchain Research Institute puts forward six suggestions: accelerating the formulation of top-level design, establishing and improving the regulatory system, accelerating the innovation and development of core technologies, promoting the third-party evaluation and certification, strengthening the cultivation of professional talents, and accelerating the implementation of applications in various fields

- the above data comes from the analysis report of China's blockchain instry market outlook and investment strategic planning of foresight Instry Research Institute

The root of the contradiction between the two founders of bitmainland comes from the dispute over the company's development route. The core is the strong disagreement on whether to develop AI chip business. It has been reported that Wu Jihan and Zhan ketuan had separated peacefully in the first half of the year, and Wu Jihan was far away from the management of the mainland. Wu Jihan, together with some core technicians, founded a new company dedicated to the construction of blockchain infrastructure, whose business includes digital currency exchange, mine pool, etc. It is reported that bitmainland has also invested in Wu Jihan's new company, and Wu Jihan continues to hold shares in bitmainland