Can digital currency be used after power failure
digital currency is a general term used to describe all forms of electronic currency, whether it is virtual currency or cryptocurrency. It is a form of data expression of value. Through data transaction, it plays the functions of transaction medium, accounting unit and value storage, but it is not the legal currency of any country or region
the concept of digital currency was first put forward in 1983. They only exist in digital or electronic form. Different from the actual paper money or coins, they are invisible. They can only be owned and used on the Internet through e-wallet or designated network. The advantage of digital currency is that there is no bank, the transaction is instant, and the transaction cost is very low. So: coin, token and virtual currency belong to digital currency
the main characteristics of digital currency
1. In terms of payment and settlement, it does not rely on institutions. It is a publicly accessible digital general ledger maintained by the whole distributed network, which is called "blockchain"
2. In terms of issuance and proction, the essence is to keep accounts on a mutually verified public accounting system. Under a certain algorithm mode, find out a string of random codes that meet the conditions, and then package this string of codes with other transaction information into a block and record them in this account book, so as to obtain a certain amount of digital currency
(3) it has no national boundaries, which makes it flow around the world. Virtual world corresponds to the real world, through the exchange relationship between digital currency and traditional currency, under certain conditions, specific digital currency can buy physical goods, and traditional currency can also buy specific virtual goods In theory, its distributed general ledger system can prevent any participant from forging digital currency and rece transaction risk The lower transaction cost of digital currency will promote banks and other financial institutions to improve service level and rece transaction costs Digital currency and mobile financial business model can promote the development of Inclusive Financeto understand decentralization is to understand blockchain. A real blockchain project is to practice the concept of decentralization through reasonable game rule design supplemented by information technology. Bitcoin system is an excellent demonstration project of decentralization concept and blockchain technology. It's no exaggeration to say that I think this is a revolution in the concept of the Internet and another revolution in the equalization of human beings. The last time it broke the inequality in status between people, this time it broke the inequality in the rules of the game itself. Because of this, blockchain can stimulate people's enthusiasm. It is a new thing that sounds like it can overturn all the old rules
why is it called "blockchain"
because Nakamoto designed this account book as a long chain of "packets", each "packet" is called a "block", and each of these blocks has a unique number (in the bitcoin system, the number is called height), which is the natural number 1, 2, 3, 4... All the way down, Jumping, interruption and repetition are not allowed<
the specific rules of blocks are explained below:
the first block was created by the inventor of blockchain "Nakamoto Tsung" personally. On January 4, 2009, Beijing time, on a small server in Helsinki, Finland, the first block was born, which is also called "Genesis block". On this block, the main information is:
the middle paragraph is a memorial of "Nakamoto Tsung" engraved on the first block. Starting from the second block, every block must be created in strict accordance with the rules of bitcoin system. The rules of the block are:
block rules
all the mysteries of the blockchain lie in the random number added to the tail, because it is so mysterious that ordinary people can only enjoy it, so I will call it "Olympiad" later for the convenience of explanation
because there are only two possibilities for each bit of a binary number, 0 or 1, the possibility of making up an Olympic number is one 72nd power of 2, that is, 1 / 4722366482869645213696. That's a dazzling number. It's about 1 in 4.7 trillion. In other words, it takes an average of 4.7 trillion Sha calculations to get an "Olympian number". You can see the value of each "Olympian number"
it may become a New Mathematical Olympiad with no rules to follow.