Classical encryption algorithm of virtual currency description
Encrypted digital assets: encrypted digital currency is not issued by legal tender institutions and is not controlled by the central bank. It is based on the open source code of a group of equations calculated by computers all over the world. It is generated by a large number of operations of computer graphics card and CPU, and uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The design based on cryptography can make the cryptocurrency only be owned by real users
encrypted digital asset is also a kind of gold existing in the network world, which is a kind of encrypted digital currency based on the block chain technology and using the digital encryption principle. In a sense, it has the same circulation function as ordinary currency. Encrypted digital assets apply blockchain technology to the global financial field, which makes consumers all over the world make business investment through encrypted digital assets, and create a new business model of win-win between investors and users, which is a trend for development
virtual currency (enterprise currency) is self issued by companies or private indivials. It can be issued indefinitely, and it does not need to be obtained by solving the equation through the CPU program of computer graphics card. Because it can be issued unlimited according to the market demand, it does not have the value of collection and appreciation. There is no ore pool website, no original code. Price can be manipulated, mostly one-way relationship
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
Digital cryptocurrency is a kind of currency that is not issued by legal tender institutions and controlled by the central bank. It is based on the open source code of a group of equations calculated by computers all over the world, and is generated by a large number of calculation processing of computer graphics card and CPU. It uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation
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definition of digital currency:
digital currency is abbreviated as digiccy, which is the abbreviation of "digital currency" in English and the alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy< br />
in fact, virtual currency covers a wider range, including not only q-coin, y-coin and various game coins, but also bitcoin, Leyte coin, doggy coin, ether coin, Ruitai coin and tokens of different crowdfunding projects launched by European crowdfunding platform
cryptocurrency specifically refers to bitcoin, Leyte coin, dogcoin, ether coin, Ruitai coin and the tokens of different crowdfunding projects launched by European crowdfunding platform.
litecoin (LTC), released on October 7, 2011, is the most valuable counterfeit coin at present, accounting for about 2% of BTC's market value. The current unit price is US $2.31, with a total currency value of US $38 million
this is also a distributed (decentralized) digital currency. Unlike the sha256 mining algorithm used by bitcoin, LTC adopts scrypt algorithm. Scrypt algorithm uses sha256 as its subroutine, and scrypt itself needs a lot of memory. Each hash is used as the seed of the input, and then it needs a lot of memory to store another pseudo-random sequence to generate the pseudo-random points of the sequence and output the hash value. In the mining of BTC (bitcoin), it is not enough to rely on simple graphics card mining (it takes about ten to dozens of days to dig a BTC with general configuration graphics card). The emergence of various expensive mining machines has raised the threshold for ordinary people to get BTC through mining, while LTC has certain advantages in using PC graphics card mining This passage comes from Zhihu.)
compared with BTC, litecain has made a little improvement in technology. If BTC is gold now, LTC is silver for the time being
the biggest advantage of litecoin is that it can confirm the authenticity faster. The virtual currency is designed and maintained by Charles Lee. Bitcoin transactions need to be verified, and the average verification time is more than 10 minutes. Most transaction websites need 1 hour to verify. The average transaction confirmation time of liteoin is 2.5 minutes. Developers claim that shortening the verification time increases the practicability of virtual currency. The bitcoin mining efficiency of customized machine and AMD GPU is the highest, making it almost unprofitable for miners using CPU mining. Litecain's mining excludes GPUs and custom processors, so it doesn't rely too much on a small number of professional miners
ppcoin
ppcoin (PPC) was released on August 19, 2012, which has improved the original technology of BTC. Use proof of make and add the concept of coin age
ppcoin is a bifurcated project of bitcoin, which aims to achieve energy efficiency and maintain the best performance of the original bitcoin as far as possible. The unit price of ppcoin is US $0.22 and the total currency value is US $4 million
ppcoin does not have a fixed upper limit of money supply, but it does not mean that ppcoin has obvious inflation compared with bitcoin. Bitcoin can be compared to gold. The annual inflation rate of gold is about 1-3%. Although gold has no known upper limit of money supply, we still know that it is a reliable scarce commodity
ppcoin has two types of casting: work certificate and equity certificate. The coinage rate of working proof is affected by Moore's law, which depends on the doubling of our working proof ability. What we all know is that Moore's law will eventually come to an end. By then, the ppcoin of inflation may be close to the gold level. The annual maximum inflation rate of certificate of equity is 1%. At the same time, ppcoin's transaction costs were destroyed to fight inflation. So on the whole, the coin design of ppcoin is still a very low inflation design in the future, which can be comparable with bitcoin<
ppcoin's reward is similar to lottery, which will determine the winning probability according to the number of ppcoin held by miners. Sunny king, one of the founders, said that their design is based on a new concept of long-term energy efficiency
terracoin
terracoin (TRC) was released on October 26, 2012, with a total currency of 42 million. The speed of each block is 2 minutes, slightly faster than LTC. There is not much special in technology, similar to the proction of BTC halved every four years
however, the operation team seems to have a strong business background and may be better than other bitcoins in circulation. The development of virtual currency is getting more and more attention. Now some teams with business background will accelerate the development of virtual currency
namecoin
namecoin is a distributed domain name system based on bitcoin technology. Its principle is the same as bitcoin. The first release date of this open source software is April 18, 2011
namecoin is generated from an original block which is different from bitcoin's main trading block. It uses a new blockchain, which is independent of bitcoin's blockchain. Because it is based on bitcoin, the security, distribution, robustness, encryption and migration of domain names are guaranteed mathematically. You can dig bitcoin and namecoin at the same time
this project was discussed and proposed by bitdns, which is mainly dissatisfied with the defects of DNS. The only top-level domain name of namecoin is. Bit. It costs namecoin to register a. Bit domain name.
Virtual currency, such as q-coin, bitcoin and coupon, refers to non real currency. It cannot and should not be used as currency in the market. Citizens' investment and transaction of virtual currency are not protected by law. Virtual currency on the Internet has now appeared in private circulation between virtual currency and RMB. This not only creates a bubble for the price of the virtual currency itself, but also provides a platform for selling and collecting money and money laundering for various cyber crimes. p>
lightning network is a kind of chain breaking technology, which uses layer 2 to eliminate the transaction processing capacity of bitcoin
examples of terminology usage
bitfinex plans to implement tether based lightning network (usdt)
detailed description
if lightning network is introced, it is possible to trade outside the crowded blockchain, so as to speed up the transaction speed and rece the cost. If you can speed up transactions and rece costs, you can make small payments, which is expected to create new procts and services
Mining pool is an organized server, which is created to collect the hash value of each miner and cooperate in mining
examples of terminology usage
the rewards earned by the virtual currency exchange binance in the mining pool can be directly traded by binance
detailed description
in the mining business of vital scale, a mechanism for multiple miners to cooperate in mining. The reward is paid according to the contribution of the mining
7. Half lifehalf life refers to the time when the mining reward (= new circulation) of bitcoin and other virtual currencies is reced by half
examples of terminology usage
cryptocurrency bitcoin (BTC) will reach its third half-life on May 12, 2020, and the mining reward will be reced from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC
detailed description
many virtual currencies have "issuance limits" to prevent inflation, and the new issuance will be reced by half every certain interval of half-life. This is also a noteworthy event unique to virtual money, because with the decrease of supply and the rising of price, the scarcity value increases significantly