Blockchain maintenance problem solving process

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We need to establish data layer, network layer, consensus layer, incentive layer, contract layer and application layer

1. The data layer encapsulates the underlying data blocks and related basic data and algorithms such as data encryption and time stamp

2. The network layer includes distributed networking mechanism, data transmission mechanism and data verification mechanism

The consensus layer mainly encapsulates all kinds of consensus algorithms of network nodes

The incentive layer integrates economic factors into the blockchain technology system, mainly including the issuing mechanism and distribution mechanism of economic incentives

5. The contract layer mainly encapsulates all kinds of scripts, algorithms and smart contracts, which is the basis of the programmable characteristics of blockchain

6. The application layer encapsulates various application scenarios and cases of blockchain

, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed in the eighteenth collective learning of the Central Political Bureau, "block chain as an important breakthrough in core technology and independent innovation", "accelerating the development of block chain technology and instrial innovation". <

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the forward-looking judgment of the CPC Central Committee has brought the "blockchain" into the public view and become the common focus of financial capital, real economy and public opinion

from network power to big data, from media integration to blockchain, the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee has collectively studied and aimed at the forefront of technological change, showing the direction, foresight and foresight of the CPC Central Committee, leading the pace of China's instrial change and economic transformation. This collective study of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPC, with special emphasis on "blockchain", has opened up an imaginary space for the development and application of blockchain

from the perspective of science and technology, blockchain involves many scientific and technological issues such as mathematics, cryptography, Internet and computer programming. From the perspective of application, in short, blockchain is a distributed shared ledger and database, which is decentralized, tamper proof, traceable, collective maintenance, open and transparent

these features ensure the "honesty" and "transparency" of the blockchain, and lay the foundation for creating trust in the blockchain. The rich application scenarios of blockchain are basically based on the fact that blockchain can solve the problem of information asymmetry, and realize the cooperative trust and concerted action among multiple agents

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If you want to understand the application of blockchain, you can refer to many books and opinions, such as illustrated blockchain, blockchain: reshaping the economy and the world, blueprint and guide of new economy, and articles of coin'an community, including a detailed understanding of the platform of coin'an community, with great strength

As the name suggests, blockchain is composed of block and chain. It is a new application mode of computer technology such as distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and so on. It is a kind of chain data structure that combines data blocks in order according to the time sequence, and it is a secure and reliable distributed account book that can not be tampered with and forged by means of cryptography

in 2008, in his paper bitcoin: a peer-to-peer e-cash system published by Nakamoto, he first proposed the idea of blockchain and encrypted digital currency. Starting from bitcoin, blockchain has become the underlying technology of various digital currencies

Second, the working principle of blockchain:

1. The basic concepts include: (1) transaction: one operation will change the account status once, such as adding a record 2) Block: records the transaction and status data within a specified time, which is a consensus and preservation of the current account status 3) Chain: it is composed of a series of blocks in chronological order, which is the log record of the whole state change. If you understand the working concept of blockchain, it is not difficult to understand its working principle. Suppose there is a distributed data logbook, which can only be added, not deleted or changed. Its structure is a linear chain formed by a series of "blocks" (which is also the source of the name of "blockchain"), and new data must be put into a new block to be added, The maintenance node can propose a new block, but it must go through a certain consensus mechanism to reach an agreement on the final selected block

2. Take bitcoin as an example to see the working principle of blockchain

the block of bitcoin is divided into block head and block body

Core advantages and characteristics of blockchain

1. The verification, accounting, storage, maintenance and transmission of decentralized blockchain data are all based on distributed system structure. There is no centralized hardware or management organization, and the rights and obligations of any node are equal, The data blocks in the system are jointly maintained by the nodes with maintenance function in the whole system. 2. The open and transparent system is open. In addition to the private information of all parties to the transaction is encrypted, the data of the blockchain is open to all. Anyone can query the blockchain data and develop related applications through the open interface, so the information of the whole system is highly transparent. 3. Security blockchain uses consensus based specifications and Protocols (such as a set of open and transparent algorithms) to enable all nodes in the whole system to exchange data freely and safely in a de trusted environment, so that the trust in "people" is changed into the trust in machines, and any human intervention does not work. 4. Information cannot be tampered with. Once the information is verified and added to the blockchain, it will be stored permanently. Unless more than 51% (almost impossible) nodes in the system can be controlled at the same time, the modification of the database on a single node is invalid. Therefore, the data stability and reliability of the blockchain are extremely high. 5. Anonymity because the exchange between nodes follows a fixed algorithm, and its data interaction does not need trust (the program rules in the blockchain will judge whether the activity is effective or not). Therefore, the counterparties do not need to let the counterparties generate their own trust by disclosing their identities, which is very helpful for credit accumulation

At present, the most popular classification of blockchain is to divide blockchain into public blockchain, private blockchain and consortium blockchain according to different participants

1. Public chain: anyone can participate in the use and maintenance, and can obtain the effective confirmation of the blockchain. Public chain is the earliest blockchain and the most widely used blockchain at present, such as bitcoin blockchain. The information is completely public

if the licensing mechanism is introced, it includes private chain and alliance chain. 2. Private chain: a company or indivial only uses the blockchain technology, enjoys the exclusive write permission of the blockchain, and does not disclose the information. At present, conservative giants (traditional finance) want to experiment with private blockchain, and the application procts of private blockchain are still groping. 3. Alliance chain: it is a blockchain between the public chain and the existing chain, which is jointly controlled by multiple organizations. The use of the chain is managed with authority, which can be controlled by the manager, and also open to others according to the manager's wishes. In addition, according to the different use scenarios and purposes of blockchain, it can be divided into currency chain for the purpose of digital currency, property chain for the purpose of recording property rights, and crowdfunding chain for the purpose of crowdfunding

On May 28, Ma Huateng, CEO of Tencent, proposed the anti-counterfeiting method based on cloud integrated blockchain technology, which is far more efficient than traditional anti-counterfeiting methods. The future anti-counterfeiting verification scenario may only require users to use their mobile phones for simple scanning, and a large number of complete information based on different dimensions can be obtained

take Maotai liquor as an example:

distillery address, proction workshop, operation staff, inspector, delivery time, transportation vehicle information and driver information,

liquor year, raw material source, raw material supplier, storage warehouse number, raw material transportation vehicle and driver information,

all information can be accurately traced, permanently recorded and tampered with

the above information can be easily verified

2. Food safety issues as early as last November, Wal Mart has cooperated with IBM to track the source of food by using blockchain technology, so as to ensure the safety of food and increase the circulation of food to rece costs. For Wal Mart and other large supermarkets, it took a few days to investigate the source of problem food, After using this technology, only one item of proct information is needed to achieve accurate traceability, and important information such as food origin, inspector, supplier, logistics and transportation can quickly find problems in a few minutes. Currently, procts tracked by blockchain include packaging procts from the United States and pork from China

3. Information security

blockchain technology is promoting an information security technology revolution. (1) identity protection PKI is a common public key encryption technology in e-mail, message application, website and other communication applications. However, since the implementation of most PKI, the centralized trusted third party certification authority (CA) is used to issue, activate and store user certificates. Hackers can attack PKI to fake user identity or crack encrypted information

certcoin is the first PKI implementation of blockchain, which comes from MIT, removes the centralized authentication center, and uses blockchain as a distributed ledger for domain name and public key

pomcor company: blockchain PKI implementation path: keep the authentication center, and use blockchain to store the hash value of issued and activated certificates. Users can verify the authenticity of certificates through decentralized and transparent sources, and can also improve the network access performance through local authentication of secret key and signature based on blockchain

(2) data integrity protection

guardtime developed a secret key free signature architecture (Ksi) based on blockchain technology to replace the secret key based data authentication technology. Ksi stores the hash table of the original data and files on the blockchain, runs the hash algorithm to verify other copies, and compares the results with the data stored in the blockchain. Any data tampering will be found quickly because the original hash table is stored in millions of nodes

(3) key infrastructure protection

the "Achilles heel" of the Internet, DDoS has entered the TB era, DDoS is still the simplest weapon for hackers to bring down the big target with low cost, DNS service is the primary target for hackers to carry out large-scale destruction, but blockchain technology is expected to fundamentally solve the problem

The distributed storage of

blockchain makes hacker attacks lose focus. Nebulis is developing a distributed DNS system, which uses Ethereum blockchain and interstellar Internet file system (IPFs, the distributed substitute of HTTP) to register and resolve domain names. The biggest weakness of DNS is caching, which makes DDoS attacks possible. It is also the bane of the centralized government's censorship of social networks and manipulation of DNS registration. A highly transparent and distributed DNS system can effectively prevent any entity, including the government, from arbitrarily manipulating records

(1) digital currency: improve the convenience of currency issuance and use, such as bitcoin and Ethernet in foreign countries, and guorenbao in China

from the use of physical transactions, to physical currency and credit currency, and then to the rise of bitcoin network, more and more people are aware of the distributed ledger blockchain technology behind it, and graally apply it in many scenarios other than digital currency

(2) cross border payment and settlement: realize point-to-point transaction, rece intermediate fees

transfer and payment. At present, the most mature application of blockchain technology is payment and transfer. Blockchain technology can avoid complicated systems, save the process of inter-bank reconciliation and review, and accelerate the settlement speed; Virtual currency can rece transaction costs without the intervention of clearing house. Different countries have different clearing proceres. It takes two or three days for a single remittance to arrive, which is inefficient and accounts for a large proportion of funds in transit. No longer through the third party, through the blockchain technology to form point-to-point payment. By eliminating the link of the third-party institutions, we can make full day payment, real-time payment, withdraw cash quickly and rece the hidden cost, which helps to avoid the capital risk. It is timely and convenient

(3) bills and supply chain financial business: rece human intervention, rece costs and operational risks

value transfer between point-to-point, control and verify physical bills or central system; Intermediaries will be eliminated and human intervention reced. With the improvement of efficiency, financing channels are more unblocked, risks are lower, and multiple parties benefit

(4) securities issuance and Trading: realize quasi real-time asset transfer, accelerate the speed of transaction clearing

the application of blockchain technology can make the process of securities trading more concise, transparent and fast, rece the plication of IT system, and improve the efficiency of market operation. For stocks, blockchain can eliminate paper and pen or electronic form records, rece human errors in trading, and improve the transparency and traceability of trading platform. Citigroup and Nasdaq cooperate to promote blockchain applications

(5) customer credit investigation and anti fraud: rece the cost of legal compliance, prevent financial crimes

the customer information and transaction records recorded in the blockchain help banks identify abnormal transactions and effectively prevent fraud. The technical characteristics of blockchain can change the existing credit reference system, and store the data of customers with bad records in the blockchain when the bank concts "know your customer" (KYC)

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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 huge

as 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

4. Jinwowo analysis believes that blockchain mainly solves the trust and security problems of transactions. Once the information is confirmed and added to the blockchain, it will be permanently stored. Unless more than 51% of the nodes in the system can be controlled at the same time, the modification of data on a single node cannot be realized. Therefore, the data stability and reliability of blockchain are very high
e to the use of Distributed Accounting and storage, there is no centralized hardware or management organization, the rights and obligations of each node are equal, and the data blocks in the system are jointly maintained by the nodes with maintenance function in the whole system.

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Seeing some answers to the debate on the definition of blockchain, I suddenly realize that my answer to this explanation principle has always been directed at bitcoin. There is no specific and unique answer in the instry between the definition of blockchain. Here I first summarize the characteristics of "blockchain" according to the papers I read:

1; Hash chain & quot There are several nodes participating in the system operation (distributed)

3. Reach a consensus on the consistency of basic data (consensus agreement / algorithm) through a certain protocol or algorithm

since bitcoin is currently one of the most typical and influential applications of blockchain, it will be much easier to understand how bitcoin uses blockchain before understanding other forms of blockchain applications

6. The characteristics of collective maintenance in blockchain technology are: blockchain is a new application mode of distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and other computer technologies. The so-called consensus mechanism is a mathematical algorithm to establish trust and obtain interests between different nodes in the blockchain system. The characteristic attributes include decentralization, openness, autonomy, tamper proof and anonymity.

7. If we simplify the description of the operation process of the traditional notarial certificate, it should be like this: the parties apply for notarization - the notary office evaluates the application - confirms the authenticity and legality of the application items - makes, issues and delivers the notarial certificate. The running process of blockchain public certificate is similar. However, the operation mechanism behind the same operation process is not the same. The reason why the public certificate of blockchain is regarded as the Manifesto of the new environment of notarization is that it has made a subversive change to the traditional notarization certificate in the operation mechanism
01, the core operation mechanism of blockchain public certificate
the operation mechanism of blockchain public certificate is composed of two moles: "Notarization management" and "intelligent assistance". After the applicant submits the application, the blockchain notarization system relies on AI technology to audit the identity and information of the applicant. At the same time, the system will review the content of notarial evidence, and then issue a notarial certificate, at the same time on the chain filing. At the same time, the public certificate of blockchain has been formally formed, which immediately meets the online verification needs of users
the core of the operation mechanism of the notarial certificate of the blockchain lies in the application of the blockchain technology. No matter audio, video, photo or document, as long as it is stamped with a time stamp and then put on the chain, it can become an unchangeable and indestructible evidence document
the second important support in the operation mechanism of the notarial certificate of blockchain is the application of artificial intelligence. The application of this technology greatly saves the applicant's application and waiting time, and also greatly improves the speed and accuracy of the notarial office's document confirmation, eliminating the time delay of manual confirmation and possible operational errors<

02, analysis of the characteristics of the operation mechanism of the notarial certificate of blockchain
through the detailed disassembly of the operation mechanism diagram of the notarial certificate of blockchain, it is not difficult to find that compared with the operation mechanism of the traditional notarial certificate, the operation mechanism of the notarial certificate of blockchain has many noteworthy characteristics
the first is synchronization. In the process of generating the public certificate of blockchain, the actions of the applicant and the notary organization are almost synchronous, and the applicant's application and the notary organization's examination, certificate preparation and certificate issuance are almost synchronous. However, in traditional notarization, there is a time interval between the actions of all parties, which is prone to usurpation. Moreover, e to manual operation, a large amount of time cost will be generated, It further causes the delay of the process. The actions of all parties of blockchain notarization are synchronized online, and the action traces and data are generated instantaneously, thus recing the possibility of tampering and ensuring the authenticity and judicial effect of data files
the second is interactivity. In the process of generating the public certificate of blockchain, the actions of the applicant and the notarization institution are interactive - the applicant submits the application, the notarization institution's artificial intelligence audit, the certificate preparation, the certificate issuance, the data archiving, and the applicant's query are carried out alternately. Different from the traditional notarization, the applicant is more in a passive waiting state after submitting the application, which reces the participation of the applicant
dynamic again. In the process of generating the public certificate of blockchain, the evidence file is a dynamic generation process. The process of applying for the notarial certificate is the process of generating the notarial evidence, and this process itself is a part of the notarial certificate. The traditional notarization is that before the notarization, the evidence documents have been basically finalized. What the notary office does is just a process of confirmation and seal, and the dispute prevention function of notarization is weakened

it is precisely because the operation mechanism of the block chain notarial certificate is quite different from that of the traditional notarial certificate, which determines its absolute advantage over the traditional notarial certificate. On the one hand, it meets the people's requirements for efficiency in the digital age; On the other hand, it also strengthens the authenticity and legal validity of notarial documents. Its interactive feature adapts to the Internet era thinking of emphasizing interaction, which makes all parties involved in notarization enter a positive interactive state. Finally, the dynamic nature of the generation of the public certificate of the blockchain greatly gives play to the initiative of the notary organization, rather than passively confirming the existing evidence documents, which can give full play to the original preventive function of the notary.