Is digital currency a big theme
1. The concept range is different. bitcoin is a kind of digital currency, and the concept of digital currency covers bitcoin
However, some digital currencies have independent issuers The biggest difference between bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that the total quantity of bitcoin is very limited and it has a strong scarcity. The monetary system used to have no more than 10.5 million in four years, after which the total number will be permanently limited to 21 milliondigital currency is abbreviated as digiccy, which is the abbreviation of "digital currency" in English. It is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy. Bitcoin is a digital currency
digital currency is different from the virtual currency in the virtual world, because it can be used for real goods and services transactions, not limited to online games. The early digital currency (digital gold currency) is a form of electronic currency named after the weight of gold
today's digital currencies, such as bitcoin, lettercoin and ppcoin, are electronic currencies created, issued and circulated by means of check sum cryptography. It is characterized by the use of P2P peer-to-peer network technology to issue, manage and circulate currency. In theory, it avoids bureaucratic examination and approval, so that everyone has the right to issue currency
illegal digital currency
in recent years, "virtual currency" represented by bitcoin, Ethernet currency and Leyte currency has been traded centrally on some Internet platforms. With the help of financial technology, the price of these "currencies" has graally spread to investment, financing and other financial fields, which has aroused wide attention from all walks of life
not long ago, the people's Bank of China and other seven ministries and commissions jointly issued the announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance, which clearly regulated the relevant behaviors. Experts pointed out that "virtual currency" is not legal tender (legal currency) issued by monetary authorities, but a specific virtual commodity in essence
therefore, it is undoubtedly a great legal and economic risk to think that "virtual currency" has or will have the nature of legal tender and to carry out speculation, network fund-raising, lending and financing
1. Bithumb
bithumb is the largest digital currency exchange in South Korea and the top ten in the world in terms of trading volume. Its daily trading volume exceeds 13000 bitcoins, accounting for about 10% of global bitcoin trading volume. It promises to provide the lowest handling charge in the world. Bithumb accounts for 75.7% of South Korea's bitcoin market, 10% of the global bitcoin market, and 50% of South Korea's Ethereum market
Bitmex is established in the Republic of Seychelles as a leading leverage trading platform. It can operate cryptocurrency derivatives trading as high as 100 times leverage, and also provide high leverage for other digital currency procts. Bitmex offers more than a dozen futures and swap procts. Bitcoin is one of the most active trading varieties, which can be divided into three types: xbtz17 (bitcoin / USD futures), xbjz17 (bitcoin / yen futures) and xbtusd (bitcoin / USD perpetual swap)
to register a bitmex account, just fill in the email, password and country. The name can be left blank. Bitmex does not accept the recharge and withdrawal of legal currency, so it does not have to follow the bank's KYC / AML requirements to obtain the user's personal information
Okex
3, okex
okex mainly provides global users with spot and derivative trading services of digital assets such as bitcoin, lightcoin and ethereal currency, which is subordinate to okex Technology Company Limited. Since 2014, we have been committed to providing bitcoin, lightcoin, ethercoin and other digital asset currency and derivatives trading services to global users, adopting advanced technologies such as GSLB, distributed server cluster, distributed storage, high-speed memory trading engine with multi machine mutual backup, cold wallet, hot money package with private key offline, etc
As one of the most concerned companies in the international blockchain instry, Qian'an is jointly founded by Zhao CHANGPENG, former blockchain CTO, a well-known blockchain company, and He Yi, former vice president of science and technology, to provide users with more secure and convenient digital currency exchange services and aggregate global high-quality digital currencies, It is committed to building a world-class blockchain asset trading platform. Only 50 days after its launch, the company's users have covered more than 180 countries around the world. This is the first time that the company has disclosed its financing information
5. Hotcoin is one of the three major exchanges in China. Headquartered in Beijing, it also has many exchanges, including domestic stations, international stations, quantitative trading, etc. hotcoin is a domestic station. Since its establishment in 2013, the accumulated trading volume of hotcoin has exceeded $100 billion, once becoming the largest digital asset trading platform in the world, It occupies 50% of the global share of digital asset transactions, and has been invested by Zhenge fund and Sequoia Capital
fire coin group has invested in more than 10 upstream and downstream enterprises, and has completed the establishment of compliance service teams in Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Britain and other countries and regions, providing secure and reliable digital asset trading and asset management services for millions of users in more than 130 countries
6, bibox
bibox is the world's first artificial intelligence digital asset trading platform, which innovatively realizes transaction security, platform stability and operation convenience; Financial derivatives services are well-known in the instry. The platform not only provides spot trading, but also provides financing, currency financing and contract trading business. Investors can carry out long short two-way operation. They can obtain the income from the rise in the price of digital assets by buying long and obtain the income from the fall in the price of digital assets by selling short, which is convenient for traders to invest and hedge
Hitbtc
7, hitbtc
hitbtc was established in 2013 and obtained 6 million euro venture capital. Headquartered in Europe, it is a bitcoin trading platform in the UK, supporting the current mainstream encrypted digital currency portfolio trading, including BCC / BTC, ETH / BTC, XmR / BTC, LTC / BTC, EOS / BTC, EOS / eth, etc. at present, there are 762 trading pairs. Hitbtc is operated by hit Solutions Limited in Hong Kong and has a dedicated support and communications office in Santiago, Chile
Digifinex
digifinex is a block chain Digital Asset Exchange registered in Seychelles, which mainly provides currency trading services of bitcoin, Ethereum, lightcoin and other digital assets for global users. According to non trumpet data, there are 103 platform trading pairs at present. Digifinex is founded by blockchain and digital asset enthusiasts, with core teams from Xunlei, Tencent and Internet. It is operated by digifnex limited, which is registered in Seychelles, and its current operation center is located in Singapore
ZB network is a global digital currency exchange. Currently, there are 168 platform trading pairs, which support OTC and spot trading. At present, it has obtained the exchange license of Thailand and Du, and has set up operation centers in Switzerland, Canada, the United States, Bangkok, Du and other places. ZB focuses on providing global customers with safe, convenient and compliant blockchain asset trading services
10, coin win international station
coin win is a global digital asset trading platform set up by Chinese state-owned enterprises in Hong Kong. It adopts bank level security technologies such as cold storage, SSL and multiple encryption to ensure the security and stability of virtual currency transactions. It mainly provides transaction services of digital assets such as ether currency and HSR for global users, and is subordinate to citicash Hong Kong Investment Limited. Currently, there are 51 platform trading pairs, which support OTC and spot trading
very large
in the field of blockchain and virtual currency, such cases of losses caused by the security of exchanges occur frequently, causing great economic losses to users. The security experts of Juhui ggfx also gave a hint: there are still many loopholes in the current digital currency trading platform, for example, the most common are the following six kinds:
the first kind: denial of service attack
denial of service attack is the most important attack against the digital currency trading platform at present. Through denial of service attack, the attacker makes the trading platform unable to access normally, Because users can not accurately distinguish the degree of attack, it often causes panic asset transfer, which brings some loss
the second kind: phishing
even the best technical measures at present can not make the digital currency trading platform avoid phishing attacks. Some hackers and outlaws can confuse digital currency investors by means of fake domain names or fake pages, while ordinary investors can't identify the authenticity, so it's easy to cause asset losses
the third: Hot wallet protection
many digital currency trading platforms use a single private key to protect the hot wallet. If hackers can access a single private key, they can crack the hot wallet related to the private key. For example, in the attack on yapizon of Seoul stock exchange in 2017, the attackers stole hot wallets from the trading platform twice in a year, resulting in a total loss of nearly 50% of the assets of the trading platform and eventually leading to the bankruptcy of the trading platform
Fourth: internal attack
e to the lack of perfect risk isolation measures or ineffective supervision on the authority of employees, the digital currency trading platform also has employees' self-monitoring and stealing, and some employees with operating authority of the platform use internal trust to seek ill gotten gains for themselves. For example, in 2016, the event of employees stealing bitcoin on shapeshift caused a total loss of US $230000 to the trading platform by stealing and reselling sensitive information to others
the fifth: software vulnerability
the software vulnerability of digital currency trading platform includes single sign on vulnerability, OAuth protocol vulnerability, etc. At present, all countries have laws requiring banks or other financial institutions to implement information security measures to protect customers' deposits. However, e to the fact that the blockchain field is still in its infancy, there is a lack of such specifications for encrypting digital assets. Therefore, it is not accidental that many trading platforms have a large number of loopholes in the absence of security constraints
sixth: transaction malleability
Technical supporters of blockchain often think that blockchain transactions are highly secure because they are recorded on records that are said to be unchangeable, but each transaction needs to have a corresponding signature, and the records can be temporarily forged before the final confirmation of the transaction. Mt. GOx, which once accounted for 80% of the world's total transactions, was hacked to submit code changes to the public ledger before the initial transaction was released, resulting in a loss of 473 million US dollars< br /> &# 160;
1. Litecoin is similar to bitcoin, which is also an encrypted digital currency, and its price has risen sharply recently. It is a P2P open source digital currency, which can be regarded as a branch of bitcoin. However, although lightcoin is based on bitcoin protocol, it does not require very high computing power. It can also be mined using ordinary computers. Lightcoin's algorithm comes from the algorithm designed by Dr Colin Percival for tarsnap secure online backup service (backup for Linux and other open source operating systems)
2. Namecoin
namecoin is also based on bitcoin, which is another branch of open source. Namecoin is a distributed DNS protocol -- generally speaking, it can transform the website name (such as ifeng. Com) that can be understood by human into the address that can be understood by machine. As its own DNS, this kind of currency can operate outside the normal Internet, so it can break away from the control of ICANN
the monetary value and domain name of namecoin are stored in the user's blockchain records, limiting the total number to 21 million
3. Peercoin
peercoin is a peer-to-peer variant of bitcoin, which can improve mining efficiency and security, and improve safeguard measures to avoid group mining. Now, group mining has been considered as a potential defect of bitcoin. According to the statistics of emerging currencies by coinmarketcap.com, peercoin currently ranks fourth in the market value of digital currencies
4. Primecoin
primecoin is a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin, but it uses a completely independent mining algorithm. Bitcoin uses the hashcash algorithm, while prime coin uses the long Cunningham chains to create the value of money - a sequence of prime numbers named after mathematician AJC Cunningham
in the process of bitcoin mining, as the amount of money goes on, the difficulty will increase sharply. But prime is different. Every time a primecoin is mined, the mining difficulty will increase slightly, and the process is much more stable< 5. Feathercoin
based on the design of litecoin, released in April 2013, can adjust the mining difficulty more frequently than litecoin. Feathercoin will be updated frequently, adding new features and improvements to eliminate malicious mining behavior
6. Novacoin
another P2P digital cryptocurrency. Novacoin is different from most other currencies in that it integrates a protection mechanism in the currency core, which can identify illegal mining activities
the total number of novacoin is limited to 2 billion, which is considerable. If necessary, the total can be adjusted upward
7, infinitech
published in June 2013. A by-proct of litecain. According to the mining situation and the total amount of money, infinite money can frequently adjust the mining difficulty ratio< Megacoin was only released in the fourth quarter of 2013, imitating bitcoin in the early stage. The total number of megacoin is limited to 42 million, which can be mined like other virtual currencies. Its biggest selling point is brand publicity, which other digital currencies lack< It was released in 2013 and is still in its infancy. In the security part of quarkcoin, nine independent loops are deployed and six different algorithms are used.
unlike virtual currency, digital currency is neither bitcoin nor q-coin! That is to say, it is different from virtual currencies such as bitcoin and Ethernet
virtual currency can only be closed in circulation on the network, just like Tencent's q-coin and Huixin cloud software collaborative instry ecological chain platform, they can only be used for their own procts. Digital currency can be used for real goods and services transactions, but only the digital currency issued by the state is legal digital currency, bitcoin is illegal digital currency. As for legal digital currency, there is no unified international definition. Yao Qian, deputy director of the science and Technology Department of the people's Bank of China and head of the preparatory group of the digital currency Research Institute, believes that the digital currency researched and issued by the people's Bank of China is indexed RMB. From the perspective of national schemes, it belongs to legal encrypted digital currency, which is not only a payment tool but also a currency. Correspondingly, virtual currency is also called illegal fixed digital currency. Li Lihui, head of the blockchain working group of China Internet Finance Association, once said that digital currency must have legal status, national sovereignty endorsement, and clear responsibility subject of issuance. Virtual currencies represented by bitcoin and ethereal currency have no country, no sovereign endorsement, no qualified issuers, and no national credit support. These are not digital currencies
digital money is not equivalent to virtual currency
since digital money can be used for commodity trading, is Alipay and WeChat payment a kind of digital currency?
Alipay, WeChat payment and mobile phone banks are all electronic money, not digital money. These are all payment methods based on electronic accounts, which are in essence just a process of informatization of legal currency, not digital currency in a strict sense. For example, the amount of Alipay or WeChat transactions is essentially banknotes on bank accounts, but it is electronic form. The "100 yuan" displayed on the mobile phone will correspond to the real 100 yuan in the bank.
(edited by Huixin Yunxu)
It can not be said to be a fraud, but there are certain risks, because digital gold currency is a form of physical currency, and its deposits are measured in gold rather than legal currency. Therefore, the purchasing power fluctuation of digital gold currency is related to the gold price. If the price of gold goes up, it becomes more valuable. If the price of gold goes down, it loses value
since there is no specific financial regulation to regulate digital gold money suppliers, they operate in a self-regulation way. Digital gold money suppliers are not banks, so banking regulations are not applicable
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to explore the connotation of digital currency, we must clarify some concepts of model lake. For example, is it legal digital currency dominated by the central bank or illegal private fixed digital currency; Encryption of digital currency or electronic currency; Is it "selling dog meat with sheep's head"; "Bad money"
new technology does make the conceptual boundary of money more blurred. Theoretically speaking, the new monetary economics points out the possibility of the disappearance of money, that is, legal paper money is no longer the only medium of transaction, and is eventually replaced by financial assets issued by the private sector that generate monetary income
in reality, although the status of fiat money is still unshakable, there have been various local scenes of private money in history, such as the universal warra system in Germany in the 1920s. Now the digital currency with the characteristics of decentralization makes the challenge of private currency increasingly prominent< br />