Prohibit digital currency speculation
It is illegal to buy and sell digital currency in China
according to the announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance jointly issued by the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions, the announcement points out that any so-called token financing trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal currency and token and "virtual currency", and shall not buy or sell tokens or "virtual currency" as the central counterparties, It is not allowed to provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or "virtual currency"
the announcement points out that token issuance financing refers to the so-called "virtual currency" raised from investors through illegal sale and circulation of tokens. In essence, it is an unauthorized illegal public financing behavior, suspected of illegal sale of token tickets, illegal issuance of securities, illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal and criminal activities
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the central bank said that the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency:
the central bank's monetary Bureau issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that recently, indivial enterprises falsely use the name of the central bank, The relevant digital procts are labeled as "authorized issuance by the people's Bank of China", or the central bank's digital currency promotion team is falsely claimed, in an attempt to deceive the public and take the opportunity to make huge profits
the central bank said that the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The central bank also suggested that the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
in fact, virtual currencies such as bitcoin and lightcoin are representatives of the so-called digital currency. The central bank said in 2016 that it was studying China's legal digital currency. Yao Qian, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the people's Bank of China, previously told the media that the prototype scheme for the central bank to issue legal digital currency has completed two rounds of revision, and is expected to be tested in relatively closed application scenarios such as the bill market in the future, but there is no clear timetable for its launch
specifically, why can we use the Internet
the announcement of the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions on preventing the financing risk of token issuance is very clear
It is not illegal, but the legal risk can not be ignored
in September 2017, after the central bank and seven ministries and commissions jointly issued the "notice on the risk of token financing", which explicitly prohibited the trading of RMB and digital currency and the issuance of ICO (abbreviation of initial coin offering, which means the initial public offering of digital currency), the heat of hyping digital currency is still hard to rece
the current situation is that although the official ban, but in reality the transaction is still in progress, which will also lead to a series of legal problems. High return is accompanied by high investment risk, as well as legal risk that can not be ignored. After the central bank stopped the digital currency exchange in September 2017, some exchanges went overseas, and investors also went to overseas markets to invest and trade, or to find counterparties through Internet instant messaging software
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related risks:
1. The so-called credit risk is e to the lack of reliable third party participation, and the transaction between the two sides completely depends on the integrity. Once there is a breach of contract, it is difficult to protect the rights and interests
2. The so-called policy risk is that the attitude of various countries towards the special currency will lead to sharp fluctuations in the price of the currency, which will have a certain impact on the OTC trading; The so-called relief vacancy risk refers to the dispute caused by OTC transactions, which makes it difficult for all parties to obtain evidence and provide evidence
3. The public security organs often encounter the problem that there is no professional institution to price bitcoin in case filing or legal review, and our criminal law stipulates that the criminal object of theft is someone else's finance with economic value, because the economic value of bitcoin can only be proved by the trading platform according to the price displayed on the trading platform software, This kind of pricing is sometimes not recognized by public security organs and courts< br />
Recently, the price of global crypto digital currency is quite unstable. Bitcoin has fallen below US $7000 from its peak of US $20000 at the end of last year, and soared by more than 11% in one day. There are huge fluctuations in the market, and there are many differences in the attitudes of countries towards digital currency. Some announced that they would issue the world's first sovereign legal digital currency, showing a "strong support" attitude, and more countries carefully observed and focused on research and guidance
the existing monetary and financial system is not a natural evolution, but an inevitable result of legal restrictions or government regulation. Although cryptocurrency has many defects, it is also a valuable experiment, especially in the exploration of super sovereign currency. Different from precious metal currency and credit currency, they are oriented to the exploration of "transaction benchmark consensus" in the data age. Of course, if it is affected by too much price fluctuation, speculation, deflation restrictions, etc., and the payment function of crypto digital currency can not be truly implemented, it can only be further and further away from the "currency experiment", or become a special basic "digital asset", or a flash in the pan in the long history
still want to cancel virtual currency< br />
Digital currency appears and has more and more influence, but it is impossible for digital currency to become a unified currency and replace paper currency unless governments unite, because it is a conflict between national interests{ RRRRR}
we assume that one day digital currency will be unified, and it can become a good medium for intermediate exchange, avoiding the risk of foreign exchange filtering. Of course, it stabilizes the international financial system and avoids the huge losses of buyers and sellers caused by foreign exchange fluctuations, which is of great benefit to the development of international trade, but the disadvantage is that, Whether this thing is reliable or not depends on time. not all countries recognize this thing. If people don't recognize this currency, they won't trade with you. This is also possible