Blockchain and digital bill
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 hugeas 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
in September 2016, Weizhong bank and Shanghai Huarui bank put into trial operation the inter-bank joint loan clearing platform based on alliance blockchain technology to optimize the settlement and clearing of "micro loan" joint loans of the two banks. With the introction of the blockchain system, all the information is recorded on the blockchain network, which can not be tampered with. The transaction process is cleared at the same time, realizing real-time clearing, saving a lot of manpower and material resources
2. China UnionPay uses blockchain technology to realize inter-bank points exchange
in September 2016, China UnionPay and IBM tried out a shared points system based on blockchain technology. Using this blockchain system allows users to exchange bonus points across banks and platforms. In other words, the bonus points of one bank can be exchanged for bonus points of other banks, or even multiple airline mileage and supermarket awards. It greatly improves the use efficiency of bank points
3. Toyota uses blockchain technology to track auto parts
in October 2016, Toyota joined R3 alliance to store the proction, processing and use of each part in the blockchain through blockchain technology, so that when there is a problem with auto parts, the source of the parts can be easily and quickly found
4. Central bank's blockchain digital bill trading platform
in January 2017, the central bank's blockchain based digital bill trading platform was successfully tested. The introction of digital currency for settlement can realize the synchronous transfer of capital flow and information flow of digital bill transaction, so as to realize DVP bill settlement. At the same time, the blockchain digital identity solution solves the problem of repeated KYC authentication between different financial institutions. It not only solves the problem that the transaction amount of digital bills is confidential to the unrelated parties, but also ensures that the regulatory parties such as the exchange have the mechanism of seeing through when necessary
5. Ant financial services blockchain application
in August 2017, ant financial services blockchain technology tested water insurance and helped Xinmei mutual insurance company to launch the first love rescue account in the domestic insurance instry. Blockchain technology makes every capital flow open and transparent, the data of every capital flow can not be tampered with, and the whereabouts and uses of every capital can be traced. In November of the same year, ant chain was used in food safety traceability and traceability of genuine procts. At present, the milk powder proced in Australia and New Zealand and Moutai in China, users can only know if they are genuine procts by scanning Alipay.
there are many other successful cases at home and abroad, all of which indicate that the application of blockchain technology is graally promoted, and is favored by various instries. Accompanied by the emergence of many blockchain technology companies, they want to take a share in this field. However, after the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions issued the "notice on preventing the financing risk of token issuance"), with the increasing difficulty of registration, there are more empty shell companies in the intermediary instry chain, and few companies have practical applications
in addition, the security technology of blockchain has always been concerned and controversial. Nowadays, blockchain mainly faces five security problems: the security of underlying code, cryptographic algorithm, consensus mechanism, smart contract and digital wallet.
using ordinary computer CPU does carry out bitcoin mining. Because bitcoin mining has formed a huge instry all over the world, ordinary computer is difficult to dig bitcoin. You need to buy expensive and professional bitcoin ASIC mining machine and join bitcoin miners' organization to dig bitcoin, that is, join the mine to dig Mining
bitcoin mining machine market has a high threshold. It is suggested that new players who want to dig for gold should be cautious.
at present, bitcoin mining needs professional ASIC mining machine. For example, Avalon mining machine, the mainstream of the market, is said that Avalon's fourth generation 28nm process chip, that is, chip flow, is expected to focus on the fifth generation 16nm process chip