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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 bifurcation

the 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 derived

He 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 bifurcate

this 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

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Aiminer provides mainstream ore pool and income query in various currencies by default, which is convenient for users to understand the income output ratio of mining in the first time. At present, Aiminer is the mining software with the most currency, the most complete mining kernel and the most conscientious pumping.

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From the moment bitcoin was born, it was worthless, then it was stir fried, and then it was stopped by the supervision. It's really a roller coaster story. The news of the closing of bitcoin trading platform is increasingly true, and the regulatory authorities have made a conclusion on domestic bitcoin trading platforms: "bitcoin China will shut down and withdraw from the market in the near future." So, can bitcoin investors withdraw cash

bitcoin China will be shut down

bitcoin China will be shut down: Xiaobian learned from multiple sources that bitcoin trading platform will be shut down at the end of September. Regulators close to the local Internet Finance rectification office told China first finance and economics reporters on September 14 that the regulatory authorities have reached a conclusion on the domestic bitcoin trading platform: "all of them will be shut down, and they will withdraw from the market in the near future."

Can bitcoin investors still withdraw cash?

Xiaobian then learned from the sources of Shanghai financial office that Shanghai has begun to issue "verbal instructions" to several bitcoin trading platforms under its jurisdiction, shut down the trading platforms and make them withdraw from the market. The time node is set at the end of September

as for the stock business of the platform, a person from a bitcoin platform told the reporter of China first finance and economics that the regulatory requirement is to "negotiate with the platform and customers". The above-mentioned sources close to the regulation also said that the regulatory requirements should be solved smoothly and properly, but the overall strength is relatively large this time

the voice of bitcoin China on the evening of September 14 confirms the above news. The official microblog announced that bitcoin China digital asset trading platform will stop new user registration from the same day; On September 30, 2017, the digital asset trading platform will stop all trading businesses. Bitcoin China's mining pool (national pool) and other businesses will not be affected

can bitcoin investors withdraw cash

first of all, before the implementation of regulatory policies, it is still possible to withdraw cash on the platform and convert bitcoin into RMB. In addition, if the policy is implemented, cash withdrawal can be completed in other international exchanges, such as the US dollar. According to the existing notice, if the virtual currency trading platform announces to suspend the exchange between legal tender and virtual currency, investors who have purchased virtual currencies such as bitcoin will not be able to withdraw RMB cash for the time being, an instry source said

however, cash withdrawal can be completed in other international exchanges, such as the US dollar. Take bitcoin as an example, you can transfer the bitcoin purchased on the domestic virtual currency trading platform to the bitcoin wallet, and then complete the withdrawal in the overseas virtual currency exchange. At the same time, cash can be withdrawn through the over-the-counter channel. According to the analysis of instry insiders, the over-the-counter trading channel between bitcoin and RMB (i.e. not trading through the platform) has not been blocked

4. Lightning bitcoin has not been well known because it is a bifurcated coin of bitcoin. Many users in the coin circle instinctively dislike this kind of token. Fork coin has now become synonymous with money and running. But what you may not know is that all bifurcated bitcoin can be called currency in the eyes of foreign regulators. The US SEC only recognizes bitcoin and Ethereum as currencies because they have not concted ICO in public channels. Accordingly, these bifurcated currencies are regarded as currency. And lightning bitcoin is the only one that doesn't pre dig in the fork coin. You can imagine that bitcoin is 100 banknotes issued by a bank, and all kinds of bifurcated banknotes are equivalent to banknotes of different denominations issued by the bank. You may not be able to understand the valuable value of this. When it comes to the circulation of entities, if you are a bifurcated coin of bitcoin, it is easy to pass the government compliance. In short, the reason why the Grand Prince BCH can get through the physical circulation in Japan so quickly is just the light of bitcoin
then why should I say that lightning bitcoin is a great currency experiment? We compare lightning bitcoin to a free economy with three major stakeholders: developers, miners and holders

so far, no blockchain project can effectively govern the three. Why? The reason is very simple. In an ICO project, the developers, coin holders and even miners are the same group. It's easy to understand. Why should he give the best interests to the ICO holders? This is obviously not in line with human nature. The reason why lightning bitcoin dares to do chain governance is related to the issuing mode of lightning bitcoin. LBTC's "governance on the chain" is another attempt to "decentralize", which is also very eye-catching. Dpos mechanism determines that there are 101 nodes in the network. At the same time, unlike pow, the right of choice is in the hands of the coin holder. These nodes will be elected by the vote of the coin holder. When the node does not act, the user can vote out of the network. According to last week's weekly report, LBTC's block browser has also added this function, which can view the operation of nodes in real time. It also paves the way for LBTC's "chain governance". In the LBTC system, all coin holders can vote to decide whether the project development proposal will go or stay, and all members of the organization can participate in the decision-making and operation of the organization. In addition, the 5000 standard of lockup after the election of the lightning node ensures that the node is both a mine pool and a coin holder. In this way, the relationship among miners, developers and users is well balanced, and the foundation of an autonomous organization is formed.

5. Virtual currency, or more formally, digital currency. Although it carries the words of currency, it should be a kind of digital financial asset. Its value comes from the application of blockchain technology in payment, clearing, notarization, digital verification and other aspects, which brings efficiency improvement and cost rection
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.

6. For a long time, the hard bifurcations of bitcoin are also a reflection of the divergent attitudes within the digital currency community. This way of rebuilding technical barriers has been questioned. Marek palatinus, the founder of bitcoin, does not look at the prospect of bitcoin gold, saying that it may not be able to achieve the goal of decentralization
in the disagreement, the attitude of the third-party platform is also crucial, which determines whether the holder can exchange bitcoin for bitcoin gold, and will have a profound impact on the market recognition of the latter. At present, more than 20 trading platforms have said that they will support the trading of bitcoin gold after it comes out
after the major exchanges have declared their position on hard bifurcations, coinbase, the largest digital currency exchange in the United States, said that it would still regard the existing bitcoin blockchain as "bitcoin" and call the bifurcated blockchain bitcoin2x (b2x). At the same time, in view of the fact that developers have not yet open source the forked code, the forked blockchain can only be supported by proving its value and security in practice
but the company's attitude changed dramatically. On the 25th, the company turned to clarify the foreword theory, supported the second generation blockchain and regarded it as "real bitcoin". The company also said that it should be neutral to the bifurcation, so that market decisions can ensure the fairness and openness of the bitcoin platform. Many holders said that this change has added to the uncertainty of bitcoin's gold prospects.