All nodes of digital currency

1. In short, virtual currency, also known as cryptocurrency, is issued and circulated on the Internet and mainly traded through exchanges. Because it runs on the blockchain, every transaction on the chain is semi anonymous and tamperable, so it ensures the circulation and a certain degree of security. Mainstream digital currencies include bitcoin, Ethereum and Leyte. digital currency is inseparable from blockchain technology. The core idea of the latter is to ensure that all nodes have a consensus on a transaction through transaction broadcast and irrelevant node confirmation. Once the consensus is formed, transaction confirmation, block excavation and reward will follow. This reward is digital currency. If digital currency wants to have value, it can't do without people's recognition of its value. The more recognition, the more people want to have it, and the exchange came into being. If it's Xiao, it's not recommended to go to big exchanges (currency security, currency, OK) to play contract leverage. You can go to small exchanges to practice, such as currency easy, etc. You can also learn about the coin circle information. The development of the whole coin circle changes every day, very fast
there is no price limit for P.S. digital currency trading, so investment should be cautious!

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Digital currency is a kind of legal tender, which must be issued by the central bank. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digital currency, which is not a network virtual currency, because it is not limited to virtual space, but is often used for real goods and services transactions, such as bitcoin, Wright coin, bitstock, etc. at present, there are thousands of digital currencies issued around the world

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1. Impact on financial infrastructure

the decentralized mechanism of value exchange based on distributed ledger technology has changed the basic settings of gross and net settlement on which financial market infrastructure depends. The use of distributed ledgers also poses challenges to trading, clearing and settlement, as it promotes the disintermediation of traditional service providers in different markets and infrastructures. These changes may have potential impacts on market infrastructure other than retail payment systems, such as large payment systems, securities settlement systems or trading databases

If digital currency and distributed ledger based technology are widely used, it will bring challenges to the intermediary role of financial system participants, especially banks. As a financial intermediary, banks perform the ties of acting supervisors and supervise borrowers on behalf of depositors. Usually, banks also carry out liquidity and maturity conversion business to realize the financing from depositors to borrowers. If digital currency and distributed ledger are widely used, any subsequent disintermediation may have an impact on savings or credit evaluation mechanisms

3. The issue of bitcoin is determined by the block height, that is, the distance from the No. 0 block of Genesis. Now when the number is reached, the total amount of bitcoin should be limited. After this village, there will be no store. If the miners dig a block but don't receive the reward of the block, the bitcoin will be destroyed forever

coinbase transaction is a special transaction that generates bitcoin "out of thin air". Only miners can write this kind of transaction, and the number of generated bitcoin is limited by rules (new currency reced by half for every 210000 blocks + transaction fee for this block)

however, the rules do not stipulate that the miner must take away all the rewards that can be taken, and can choose not to take them

therefore, a mine pool connected with the RSK side chain has made a bug before, forgetting to take away the reward and occupying a pit in a block for nothing, which is equivalent to destroying the corresponding amount of bitcoin, making the total amount of bitcoin decrease a little bit permanently

in addition, to spend a bitcoin, you only need to specify the transaction ID and output serial number

as like as two peas in multiple blocks repeatedly write identical coinbase transactions, the transaction ID is also repeated.

therefore, this kind of situation also occupies the pit of a block in vain, and permanently destroys the corresponding amount of bitcoin

it seems to me that this is still a security vulnerability, so the new version of bitcoin software later banned the writing of repeated coinbase transactions. But until now, there has been no ban on miners not getting their e rewards

generally speaking, a coin is controlled by a private key. If a coin is transferred to an address where no one knows the private key, it will be destroyed

if the owner does a good job in security, and the private key is not disclosed and cannot be guessed, but he accidentally loses the private key, it is equivalent to destroying all the coins he owns

there are only some special circumstances that require intentional destruction of coins

one is irreversibly converted into another kind of currency, such as the contract currency XCP attached to bitcoin and wormhole cash WHC attached to BCH

the second is to save certificates and data on the chain, such as the time stamp: panbiao.com/2013/08 /

and the crowd funding of the original Ethereum founding team: zhuanlan.hu.com/p/29

the private key is essentially a big number. Whoever knows this number can control the currency on the corresponding address. So the private key must be generated with reliable random number, otherwise it may be guessed and stolen

compared with the token, the address is the hash of the public key. There is no way to judge whether an address has a corresponding public key and private key (even if the public key is known, the corresponding private key cannot be known). Therefore, even if it is explicitly the address of "burned" token, the system does not prohibit the transfer in

strictly speaking, what locks the currency is a small program (script). This program takes the input as the public key and digital signature. First, check whether the public key hash is consistent, and then check whether the digital signature is valid. If it is valid, it will be verified and transfer is allowed; Otherwise, it will be judged that the transaction is illegal and refuse to package into the chain

it is the whole node software that explains and executes this program. It can be said that the software code of the whole node specifically defines a coin

however, the current situation is very embarrassing. Most miners do not run the whole node, only a few mines are running. The vast majority of users do not run the whole node, even if they run the whole node, they can only perform verification, no computing power, no block.

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Generally speaking, blockchain wallet is used to store digital currency. In fact, blockchain wallet does not store digital currency, but a tool to store key (private key and public key). With the key, you can have the right to control the digital currency in the corresponding address, and use the digital currency collection address generated in blockchain wallet, You can accept the digital currency transferred to you by others, and you can also transfer the digital currency you own to others.

classification of digital currency wallets:

can be roughly divided into two categories, hot wallet (online wallet) and cold wallet (offline wallet)

first, hot wallet

Hot wallet is also called online wallet, It includes light wallets and heavy wallets (all node wallets). The wallets that need to be connected to the Internet can be directly traded

1. Light Wallet:

does not store the complete blockchain, only stores the data related to itself. It is small in size and can run on mobile phones, computers, web pages, etc

advantages and disadvantages: it does not occupy memory, supports a variety of digital assets, has a good user experience, is fast for novices, but transaction verification is a little slow

2. HEAVY WALLET (full node wallet)

maintains all blockchain data, completely decentralizes and synchronizes all data. It has better privacy and can verify the validity of transaction data locally

advantages and disadvantages: it has better privacy and faster verification of information, but it needs to synchronize data before each use, takes up a lot of hard disk space, and does not support multiple digital currency transactions

Second, cold wallet

cold wallet is not connected to the Internet, also known as offline wallet; For example, professional hardware devices, or private keys (mnemonics) written on paper

1. Hardware wallet

Hardware wallet is to store digital currency with professional hardware, store the private key of digital assets in a chip, isolate it from the Internet, and plug and play

2. Paper wallet

the advantages and disadvantages of writing the private key on paper and then deleting

cold Wallet:

is relatively safe, but it is very troublesome to create a wallet and trade. It is difficult for novices to operate, and the price of wallets is relatively expensive, generally ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan. If you don't have a large amount of digital assets, you don't need to consider

generally, it's recommended for novices to use light wallet. Light wallet is easy to operate and easy to use. Personal used geekwallet

simple and convenient light wallet supports bitcoin (BTC), lightcoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), EOS Storage and management of mainstream digital currency assets such as usdt

using bip44 mnemonics, local private key, off-line signature and other security mechanisms, as well as mobile phone and computer al backup strategy, completely solve the loss of digital currency assets caused by hacker attack, virus infection, mobile phone loss, forgetting mnemonics and other ways, and provide users with online Multi Chain digital assets one-stop management service. The platform also has tiaoshao market, which can carry out token trading of physical assets on the chain

5. Hello! Although it is possible to play, but the ability to resist risk, everyone is not the same. The risk of this kind of thing is relatively high.