Virtual currency ICO knew
1、 Different definitions:
1. virtual currency:
virtual currency refers to non real currency
digital currency:digital currency is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy
3. Cryptocurrency:
cryptocurrency is a kind of transaction medium that uses cryptography principles to ensure transaction security and control the creation of transaction units
4. Token (token):
a kind of article whose shape and size are similar to currency, but the scope of use is limited and has no currency effect, and its token is the homonym of token in English
Second, the characteristics are different:1; It can also be said that virtual currency is personalized currency. In another way, it can also be called information currency
2. Digital currency:
is an unregulated and digital currency, which is usually issued and managed by developers and accepted and used by members of specific virtual communities
Cryptocurrency:cryptocurrency is based on the decentralized consensus mechanism, which is opposite to the banking and financial system relying on the centralized regulatory system
4. Token (token):
usually needs to be exchanged for money, used in shops, playgrounds, mass transportation and other places, as a voucher to use services and exchange goods
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at present, digital currency is more like an investment proct, because it lacks a strong guarantee agency to maintain its price stability, and its role as a value measure has not yet appeared, so it can not be used as a means of payment. As an investment proct, digital currency cannot develop without trading platform, operating company and investment company
digital currency is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the blockchain technology it relies on has been decentralized and can be used in other fields except digital currency, which is one of the reasons why bitcoin is popular; On the other hand, if digital currency is widely used by the public as a kind of currency, it will have a huge impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy, financial infrastructure, financial market and financial stability
IPO is the initial public offering of a company. After IPO, the company can go to the securities exchange market for listing. Of course, there are various regulatory enforcement before and after the IPO, and the whole process is completed in reality
the difference of ICO is that the public offering party can be an indivial, a company, a community, or an institution. After the offering, it is listed and traded on the online virtual currency trading platform, such as smart star Witkey, XX eight, XX one proct, etc. the whole process is completed on the Internet
virtual currencies, such as bitcoin and Ethereum, have become fixed currency in circulation on the Internet, such as the US dollar in the real world. Most of the ICO process is not the project party selling its own equity, it should be said that it is the right to use, that is, the expected qualification of the future value of the proct
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One is to block the "going to sea" virtual currency trading platform. As of May 2018, 110 websites, including hot coin.com and coin.com, have been blocked
Fourthly, risk warning and public opinion guidance should be actively carried out. Together with the China Internet Finance Association, we remind the public to be highly alert to the risks and hazards of virtual currency related activities through various channels and forms Fifthly, we should actively support and cooperate with the public security organs to crack down on all kinds of fake virtual currency and related illegal fund-raising, fraud, pyramid schemes and other activities. According to the statistics of public security organs, in recent years, nearly 300 cases of virtual currency crimes have been filed and investigatedrumors are not credible. You must pay attention to the official news or go to the official to find out
official news is the mainstream.
the content of this article comes from: financial code of the people's Republic of China: application edition, China Law Press
blockchain has existed as early as ten years ago
fundamentally speaking, the popularity of ICO cannot be separated from the support of bitcoin and other virtual currencies. In the case of "90% of ICO projects are unreliable", no matter what the ICO market is, even bitcoin and other virtual currencies, which are the objects of fund-raising, have been criticized for a long time
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