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About bitcoin, the news is flying all over the world these two days
specifically, a foundation called BTN foundation announced that it has set up a bitcoin bifurcated development team to launch a new bitcoin bifurcated BTN. Now its official website is online, which is called btn.kim. Two days later, bitgo, another bitcoin development team, announced that it would fork out from bitcoin. Its name is BTF, which literally means "bitcoin faith"
according to Yao yuan, a well-known bitcoin columnist, bitcoin will "have 10 children" in December, and will at least bifurcate out of 10 "children" such as BCX, SBTC and LBTC
as soon as these things happened, the bitcoin market began to fluctuate again, some investors blew up, and all kinds of rumors came out: why so many forks? Is bitcoin out of order
in fact, the bifurcating of bitcoin is far more complicated than what it shows. If we don't explain its historical background clearly, we really can't understand what happened
< b > the origin of bifurcations: the origin of the bifurcations of bitcoin has existed. The so-called bifurcations refer to the accounting differences caused by different underlying protocols. According to Xue Hongyan, director of the Internet financial center of Suning Financial Research Institute, bitcoin is jointly maintained by a number of point-to-point decentralized nodes. The orderly operation of the whole system depends on the consensus of all nodes, that is, there is a set of recognized standards for key issues such as which transactions are acceptable and which nodes have accounting rights. This set of standards is deployed in the underlying protocol of blockchain and implemented automatically
but nodes are operated by people after all, which is the so-called "miner", but everything operated by people will be different. For example, the miners of some nodes go online every day, while the miners of some nodes go online occasionally; Some nodes are in the eastern hemisphere, some nodes are in the Western Hemisphere... In a word, e to various reasons, over time, bitcoin has different underlying protocols in different nodes
if different versions of underlying protocols are running in a node, different standards will appear, which will result in bifurcation. If the nodes can deal with these version differences and finally form a unified standard, the bifurcation will eventually disappear, which is called soft bifurcation. If the difference cannot be eliminated, when some nodes continue to run different versions of the protocol, the bifurcation will continue, which is called hard bifurcation
it's easy to solve the problem of soft bifurcation, that is, if the account book is wrong, just modify it. Hard bifurcations are not easy to solve. No one thinks he is wrong and explains them according to his own standards. In the end, he can only go his own way and keep his own account. At present, bitcoin bifurcation refers to hard bifurcation
< b > the first bifurcations: the first hard bifurcations of bitcoin technology upgrade are purely technical reasons. The settlement performance of bitcoin itself is limited. According to the original technical agreement, bitcoin can only support up to seven settlements per second. This was not a problem in the early days. With the fire of bitcoin, more and more people flocked in, and the settlement became more frequent than ever. At this time, the original technology was not enough
therefore, in the middle of 2017, some miners proposed new technology agreements, but the other miners did not agree with them. Eventually, both sides held one end and ran their own underlying agreements, which was the first bifurcation in the history of bitcoin
However, with the development of bitcoin trading means, speculators graally regard the bifurcation as a means of money collection, which leads to a great change in the nature of the current bifurcationthe principle is that each bifurcation is essentially equivalent to the issue of a new digital currency, which is linked to bitcoin. The target audience is larger than the general ICO, and it is easier to be accepted by ordinary users than issuing a new digital currency directly
because the team that creates this kind of bifurcation takes the lead, it is very easy to control the transaction of the new currency, especially in the early stage, and it only needs a small cost to control the price trend of the whole currency. This leaves a lot of room for speculation. The forked team only needs to make the new currency accepted by the users, and then it can artificially raise the price to a sky high price. After the real users come in, they can sell all the money they hoard, and get high profits out of thin air
on October 25 this year, a domestic team forked out bitcoin gold (BTG). Two days before the forking, Jiang Zhuoer, CEO of leibitchi, denounced the forking as money looping: "Liao Xiang, founder of BTG, had g 200000 BTG coins in advance before the forking, and wanted to convert them into 20000 bitcoins, looping 80 million yuan."
The advantage of bifurcations can be seen, so that the word "bifurcations create value" has become popular in the field of currency speculation. For this reason, a new word "IFO" - first token issue has been derivedHe Sheng, a well-known financial blogger, once told the media that most of the so-called IFO may evolve into the operation of collecting money by harvesting leeks. "Many previous ICOS are doing IFO, and ICO needs to write a white paper and go to the stock exchange to gain market recognition, while IFO does not even need to write a white paper."
this also explains why bitcoin is becoming more and more profitable. To put it bluntly, everyone wants Nakamoto
Can< b > not bifurcate
whether it's Hong shuning of Suning finance, or Mike & Chen, CEO of bitgo, a bitcoin wallet software provider and one of the project leaders of segwit2x; Mike belshe, the instry actually refuses this bifurcation of bitcoin. In fact, real blockchain practitioners have always hated speculation. At present, the leading enterprises in the domestic blockchain instry have clearly expressed their opposition to the overflow of bitcoin bifurcation. For example, when Xunlei launched the first popular blockchain project in China, its CEO Chen Lei said in an interview: "Xunlei opposes all speculative activities using blockchain, so it is definitely against bitcoin for the purpose of speculation and leek cutting arbitrage."
However, to solve this problem, it is not enough to have an attitude alone, but to have specific means. The best way is not to let bitcoin bifurcatethis is difficult to achieve. Bitcoin's own technology is a relatively primitive blockchain technology with limited computing power. It can barely cope with the previous transaction scale. In view of the current situation of bitcoin fire, it is difficult to support. So sooner or later bitcoin will have to solve the problem of its own computing power
but there is no hope at all. With the innovation of blockchain technology, there will always be some new ways. For example, the shared computing proposed by Xunlei can effectively improve the total amount of computing power and rece the cost per unit of computing power without changing the existing hardware facilities. If bitcoin is combined with shared computing, it can effectively solve the problem of bitcoin's computing power limit without new bifurcation
secondly, the bifurcations for the purpose of cutting Chinese chives can be supervised by means of supervision. For example, compared with the real name system of special currency wallet, the real name system of transactions can effectively prevent the risk of Financial Bureau. At present, the real name system has been implemented in some blockchain projects, and has achieved good results. For example, Xunlei's blockchain is the first blockchain application to introce the real name system in China, which basically eliminates the hidden danger of malicious speculation
in a word, there is a way. It depends on whether bitcoin players accept it or not, and there is a process to implement it. It takes time. Therefore, at this stage, it is better for us to stay away from the bifurcations of bitcoin in various names
BCC started mining at 20:00 on August 1, and separated from the bitcoin main chain in block 478559. The first BCC block was excavated in viabtc, the Chinese ore pool, and then the next block 478560 was excavated. Before the separation from the main chain, the data stored in the blockchain and the running software are compatible with all bitcoin nodes. After the separation from the main chain, it begins to execute new code and package large blocks. Thus, a new BCC blockchain is born, and BCC also begins to develop independently.
as you can understand it, it's like the stock of these technology service providers. As these technologies become more and more widely used, these virtual coins will become more and more valuable
bitcoin, which appeared in 2009, is the first kind of virtual currency in the world. It is also the first time that it has applied the blockchain technology which is popular all over the world
after bitcoin, there are many imitators in the market. They either improved on the basis of bitcoin, or put forward more grand technical ideas than bitcoin. Virtual currency, which is common in other markets and considered as "regular army" by instry insiders, is collectively referred to as competitive currency. Together with bitcoin, it forms the whole digital currency market, with a total market value of nearly 100 billion US dollars
there are thousands of virtual currencies in the market, most of which are risky; In addition, there are many MLM coins that are simply for the purpose of deceiving people< In order to help you avoid being cheated, the following is a brief introction to the main "regular army":
1. Bitcoin (BTC)
bitcoin is the first virtual currency in the world, with a total of 21 million. At present, more than 16 million bitcoins have been "g up", with a total market value of about US $45 billion, equivalent to half of the total market value of all virtual coins. It is well deserved to be the number one in the coin circle
bitcoin has been accepted as payment currency by hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world; In addition, bitcoin has also become a common money raising currency in various blockchain technology startups. Therefore, with the increasing demand for bitcoin, the value of bitcoin is likely to grow in the long run
2. Eth is regarded as "bitcoin version 2.0" and is the most likely competitor to surpass the market value of bitcoin. Some time ago, the market value of bitcoin was close to that of bitcoin. However, e to the price rection in the recent month, the market value of bitcoin is only about half of that of bitcoin
Ethernet coin was born in the summer of 2014. It is issued on the Ethereum blockchain, which is different from bitcoin. Ethereum blockchain is a decentralized application platform, which solves the problems of bitcoin's technical limitation in currency application and insufficient function expansion, so it has great technical advantages
3. Bitcash (BCH)
BCH inherits a small part of bitcoin's legacy, the name of bitcoin's cash is also good, and the image logo also inherits a part of bitcoin. The ecology of BCH is also good
BCH pursues to be a world currency and an underlying platform for chain application. BCH is actively deploying the main chain expansion and developing the two-tier network to realize the ideal
the whole ecology should be made efforts from two aspects. The first direction is the expansion of the main chain, payment experience and function improvement. Capacity expansion is the guarantee to keep the certainty of monetary transaction fees very low. Improving the payment experience, including popularizing zero confirmation, pre consensus, and possibly shortening block time, are all evolving towards a better payment experience. The main chain function is perfect, including Op_ Return expansion, token issuance, new opcode addition
with the expansion of BCH main chain function, BCH based applications can be developed. The most famous are the decentralized microblog like memo, the paid download seed application like joystream, and the decentralized encrypted communication like Keyport
the second direction is to develop layer-2 network. Build a new blockchain based on BCH network, such as wormhole and kenoken, which are similar to Ethereum network based on BCH. BCH undertakes more complex block chain functions, such as notification contract, through two-layer network. The competition direction of BCH layer 2 network is to compete with the side chain of BTC
4. Lightning bitcoin (LBTC)
bitcoin has been developing for 10 years. In this decade, bitcoin has experienced three important splits, and now it has become four kinds of currencies. The first is BTC, which has inherited most of bitcoin's heritage; The second is BCH; The third is BSV and the fourth is LBTC
LBTC was born to break the power monopoly of big miner and bitcoin core bitcoin, introce more new features and functions for bitcoin, and greatly improve its performance. Lightning bitcoin (LBTC) is a peer-to-peer e-cash system, which is an innovative experiment based on bitcoin. It uses the dpos consensus mechanism based on utxo to separate the voting right and accounting right, so that the token will not be kidnapped by any party. It is a global value Internet transmission protocol with high speed, low handling charge and high scalability. Due to the adoption of dpos consensus mechanism, users can participate without professional mining machines, achieving real decentralization
the above four are the most mainstream bifurcated versions of bitcoin protocol. They are also investment procts that can realize your desire of soaring wealth. Senior managers can play with them, but the premise is that you need to be prepared for huge losses - because they are very volatile
for Xiao, I would like to say: Although virtual currency is a secret weapon for ordinary people to counter attack the sudden wealth, it's very difficult for you to make a lot of money from it
in addition, at present, the price of virtual bitcoin is at a high level, and it can not be ruled out that it will mainly be sideways in 2019. At this time, I think it is a good choice to some other mainstream bifurcation currencies, such as BCH, BSV and LBTC.
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1. They hype themselves and pave the way for their bifurcating bitcoin. For example, Liao Xiang, who once strongly opposed big blocks, paid big money, and they all bifurcated bitcoin
2. Misled by the core development team, the melon eaters regard the miners as a group of criminals
3. The core development group's opposition to BCH is not only a divergence of development roadmap, but also a dispute of interests. The lightning network promoted by the core development group can make the gold owners behind it profit through the lightning network.
bit 1 and bit 4 signal transmission methods are acceptable
If 269 of 336 blocks send bit 1 or bit 4, bip91 will be locked
after another 336 blocks, bip91 can be activated
after bip91 comes into effect, the block that does not send bit 1 (that is, the block that supports bip141) will be rejected by the network.