The emergence of digital currency

1. The digital development of money is an inevitable trend in the use of money, and it is also the internal demand of money in the performance of monetary functions.

2. Block Tianyan: digital currency is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency (which can be used for real goods and services transactions). In short, it is the electronization of RMB, which is equivalent to paper currency, but more flexible than paper currency. It can track the flow of your money and pay without the Internet
digital currency has the main characteristics of network packet. This kind of data packet is composed of data code and identification code. The data code is the content we need to transmit, while the identification code indicates where the data packet comes from and goes
based on the characteristics of digital money, the direct benefit of digital money to the central bank is not only saving the cost of paper money issuance, circulation and settlement, but also enhancing the central bank's ability to control funds.

3. The emergence of digital currency was born under the expectation of pursuing a more perfect social and economic transaction mode and Global trade facilitation. It was discovered in the process of using science and technology to graally explore this need. The history of digital currency should start with the creation of bitcoin
the creation of digital currency
the origin of digital currency can be traced back to the 1990s, and electronic gold is one of the best forms. E-gold came out in 1999. It is based on real precious metals. Another consistent digital currency service is LR. Founded in 2006, it is an online payment company in Central America. It allows users to convert U.S. dollars or euros into LR, and only 1% of the transaction cost can be exchanged freely. This kind of two-way service is used by some people to launder money, so it is inevitably shut down by the U.S. government under the charge of money laundering
then, a person named Nakamoto published an article called "bitcoin: a peer-to-peer e-cash system" in the cryptography forum, which gave birth to bitcoin. Compared with legal currency, bitcoin does not have a centralized discoverer, but is generated by the calculation of network nodes, and is composed of a series of complex codes generated by computers. Anyone can dig, buy and sell bitcoin, and it is an anonymous transaction and cannot be tampered with. As a result, it is surrounded by geeks of popular technology, pursuers of complete liberalism and speculators
digital currency can be divided into open mining cryptocurrency and issuing cryptocurrency. Digital currency is defined as an Internet-based currency or exchange medium, which is different from physical currency. Digital currency can realize instantaneous transaction and ownership transfer without borders
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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

5. Digital currency is a relatively large concept. However, what we usually say about digital currency generally refers to the encrypted digital currencies such as bitcoin, Ruitai coin and Laite coin
there is no essential difference between virtual currency and digital currency, but it is only called differently. Digital currency is generally called high-end, and professionals generally call it digital currency. Virtual currency is the most popular term, which is generally used by those who don't know much about it.

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The minimum penalty for the crime of organizing and leading pyramid selling activities is criminal detention, and the maximum penalty is fixed-term imprisonment of more than five years. Generally, fixed-term imprisonment is not more than 20 years

Article 224-1 of the criminal law:

in the name of marketing goods, providing services and other business activities, organizations and leaders require participants to pay fees or purchase goods and services to obtain the qualification to join, and form a hierarchy according to a certain order, and directly or indirectly use the number of development personnel as the basis for remuneration or rebate, so as to lure and encourage the development of enterprises Those who force participants to continue to develop pyramid selling activities that others participate in, defraud property and disrupt economic and social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and shall also be fined; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years and shall also be fined

MLM in criminal law is different from direct selling. MLM in criminal law is a kind of criminal behavior, and the starting point of criminal behavior is low, which can more severely crack down on criminal behavior and prevent the occurrence of criminal behavior. And legal direct marketing is not MLM, so it will not be punished

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MLM originated in the United States in the late stage of World War II, took shape in Japan after World War II, and developed in China

In foreign countries, MLM and direct marketing have the same meaning, that is to say, there is only the concept of MLM in foreign countries. The main concept of foreign MLM is to use the word-of-mouth generated by customers' use of procts as the driving force, and let customers help dealers to promote procts and share part of the profits, that is, customer communication sales. This is different from the domestic concept of MLM

however, in China's criminal law, pyramid selling (Chinese style pyramid selling) is a false company, a fictitious proct, and everything is empty. It just lets you pull your head and draw a small commission from the membership fee or franchise fee

or control personal freedom, confiscate property, so that you can't contact the outside world, learn those MLM training materials every day, so that you can learn how to cheat people, and then make a list, telephone or letter invitation, showdown, follow-up, until you pay the membership fee or franchise fee in various ways

Chinese MLM is built on the basis of mind control, that is to say, you can organize MLM spontaneously after brainwashing through their MLM training; Others will control your personal freedom, confiscate everything, and force you to accept these lies

7. Credit endorsement by the state has the function of value anchoring and credit creation, which will have a substantial effect on the economy. Legal digital currency, like paper money, is essentially pure credit currency. However, digital currency can further rece operating costs, and can be applied in a wider range of areas with higher efficiency
"the emergence of digital currency follows the inevitable law of currency evolution, and is also the inevitable result of the development of science and technology. From the perspective of historical process, the carrier of currency has evolved from shellfish and precious metals to paper money, and then to the popular third-party payment electronic currency in modern society
in essence, they are pursuing the convenience and low cost of transaction, and this trend continues to develop, and the manifestation in the future society is digital currency. The first thing to solve is the technical barriers, although today's blockchain is regarded as the Internet of the 1990s, and its future is limitless. But it is not mature enough to support the huge payment system. At the same time, the issuance of legal digital currency will greatly increase the number of point-to-point transactions, bypass the original regulatory system to a certain extent, and easily facilitate illegal transactions. As digital currency makes it very convenient to convert deposits into cash, financial panic and financial risk will accelerate the spread once they occur, which increases the difficulty of supervision. In addition, in the process of using legal digital currency, a large number of user data and transaction information will be obtained. How to store and manage these data to prevent the disclosure and illegal use of user information is also an important challenge.