Does digital currency depend on the Internet

Yin Zhentao, deputy director of the law and Finance Research Office of the Financial Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that digital currency faces two risks. The first is the technical level. Digital currency relies on blockchain technology and a system, which will make it suffer from security impact, such as hacker attacks on computer systems. We have seen many practical problems in this process

Zhao Zhanzhan, a special researcher of intellectual property research center of China University of political science and law, believes that digital currency has anonymity, quickness and irrevocability. In addition, bitcoin and other digital currencies have high circulation in the world, so many criminals use digital currency as a new money laundering channel. Moreover, there are many different ways to realize money laundering through digital currency. Generally speaking, the probability of new money laundering being found and investigated is lower than before. Many countries have no effective means and technology to combat money laundering through digital currency. These factors lead to criminals prefer this way of money laundering

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

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

In recent years, the rise of financial technology drives the digital and intelligent development of finance, and the form of money is also evolving. Recently, the news of digital currency has attracted people's attention, and there is still a lot of gap with the current online payment

There is no relationship between digital currency and Internet of things.

related introction:

the application fields of digital currency and Internet of things are different

1. Internet of things:

through a variety of information sensors, RFID technology, global positioning system, infrared sensors, laser scanners and other devices and technologies

is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy

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through various possible network access, the Internet of things realizes the ubiquitous connection between things and people, and realizes the intelligent perception, identification and management of goods and processes. The Internet of things is an information carrier based on the Internet and traditional telecommunication network. It enables all ordinary physical objects that can be independently addressed to form an interconnected network

and digital currency can be considered as a virtual currency based on node network and digital encryption algorithm, which mainly applies fast, economic and secure payment and settlement, establishes digital wallet through digital currency, realizes lower cost and more secure micro payment and capital transfer in areas with insufficient financial coverage and underdeveloped economy, and increases intermediate business income