How to understand digital currency exchange
Why do digital currencies need exchanges
as we all know, digital currency is based on blockchain technology and platform, and it is also one of the most typical applications of blockchain
taking bitcoin as an example, its platform provides the function of transferring money among users, but it does not provide the function of transaction and payment, which makes bitcoin unable to communicate with the outside world, let alone circulate, and thus cannot become a real currency
in order to solve this problem, the exchange was born
role of the exchange:
in addition to the above-mentioned trading and payment, the specific functions of the exchange are roughly asset management, matching trading and asset clearing, etc. To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to the Bank of digital currency. The matchmaking transaction here is actually to exchange for other currencies, such as bitcoin for Leyte. Of course, there are also some basic functions such as recharge and cash withdrawal. In principle, it is a centralized account book without being linked
on the other hand, the exchange also plays the role of stock exchange, making ICO (initial token issue) project possible
all kinds of token (token or token) can be raised and issued through the exchange
at this point, some people certainly think that the exchange is a combination of banking and securities trading
but not only that, the exchange also has the functions of futures and financial management, which means it also has the attributes of financial institutions such as futures exchange, securities companies and fund companies
it is not enough. In fact, the exchange also has the function of supervision, because there is no supervision. Therefore, the digital currency exchange can be regarded as a super financial center
the centralized exchange plays an important role, which obviously brings many security risks and trust crisis
all these are closely related to the violation of the "decentralization" advocated by blockchain
fortunately, some "decentralized" exchanges have emerged, which are based on the blockchain platform and rely on smart contracts to achieve the purpose of automation, de trust and transparency
let's briefly talk about how to build an exchange. Generally, a subject is registered first, such as the Singapore foundation, because the Singapore government encourages the development of blockchain, and high-quality project parties are registered in Singapore, which can be more recognized in the instry
the Singapore foundation can register by providing a company name and identity information of directors, and then it can do some legal compliance, which is also the advantage of the Singapore foundation. It can issue effective legal opinions to make the project compliance.
Binance exchange, with rapid development, has become one of the top five exchanges in the world in just half a year. Unlike idcm.io, which was the first to support vhkd, binance directly issued its own token BNB and launched the exchange
advantages: large trading volume; Support multiple computers and mobile phones; Multi language support; More currencies: 99 cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, LTC and BNB are supported, 235 paired trading markets are available, and the service charge is low; It's faster to recharge and withdraw money
disadvantage: they have no futures and OTC trading, and only support currency trading, and stopped the service to domestic users some time ago, so domestic users need to choose carefully. At the same time, because binance is an exchange trading platform, it cannot be traded directly with legal currency, so it needs to use other platforms to buy cryptocurrency
it's not very convenient to recharge it to coin an network. In addition, in February and March of this year, binance suffered serious security incidents and hackers' leek cutting attacks, and its security performance was questioned
extended information:
the process of digital currency trading through the platform is as follows:
(1) investors should first register accounts, and obtain digital currency accounts and US dollar or other foreign exchange accounts
(2) users can buy and sell digital currency with the money in their cash account, just like buying and selling stocks and futures
(3) the trading platform will sort the buying requests and selling requests according to the rules and start to match them. If they meet the requirements, the transaction will be concluded
(4) e to the difference between the buy and sell volumes submitted by users, a buy or sell request may be partially executed
the mode of digital currency trading through operating companies is as follows: take Ruibo coin as an example, Ruibo coin is operated by professional operating company opencoin, ripple protocol was originally designed based on means of payment, and the design idea is based on acquaintance network and trust chain
to use ripple network for remittance or loan, the premise is that in the network, the payee and the payer must be friends (mutual trust relationship is established), or have common friends (trust chain is formed through the transmission of friends), otherwise the trust chain between the user and other users cannot be established, and the transfer cannot be carried out
in September 2017, the central bank issued an announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which formally determined that ICO is illegal financing without approval, and no organization or indivial is allowed to participate
later, on April 23, 2018, it was announced that the left and right digital currency ICO platforms had all withdrawn from the Chinese market, so the current ICO is illegal in China< Second, digital currency exchanges are prohibited in China.
after announcing that ICO is an illegal financing activity, the central bank also listed services such as trading, exchange, pricing and information intermediary for virtual currency as prohibited items, which means that digital currency exchanges are illegal in China
the trading platforms including bitcoin China, okcion, and fire coin all announced to stop the RMB recharge business in 2018, and closed the trading platforms one after another. As of April 2018, all digital currency exchanges have completely withdrawn from the Chinese market
Third, the central bank has not yet issued legal digital currency
so far, the central bank has not issued legal digital currency. If you are recommended to buy a digital currency "authorized or issued by the central bank", it must be a fraud platform
conclusion: there are no relevant laws and regulations for digital currency in China, but according to the documents issued by the central bank, the state is very cautious about digital currency, especially the digital currency issued by indivials.
all other platforms and procts are illegal and contain great risks.