Online news of buying virtual currency
(1) at present, there is no regulation to regulate the trading platform, but the trading platform should also fulfill the audit obligation. For example, when online trading various network virtual currencies, it should audit whether the currency is a network virtual currency based on blockchain technology
(2) if the trading platform knows that the online trading currency is suspected of MLM, but in order to collect Commission, it also provides trading services for the currency and promotes its development, once the currency is identified as MLM, the trading platform may have to bear certain legal liabilities
(3) at the same time, a large number of customers' funds are stored in the accounts of virtual currency trading institutions. However, all online virtual currency trading institutions are not qualified to absorb public funds, which makes trading institutions face the potential risk of illegal fund-raising
the 2017 version of the guide to the identification of internet pyramid selling (hereinafter referred to as the guide) lists several differences between virtual currency and pyramid selling currency:
(1) from the perspective of issuing mode, virtual currency does not rely on specific monetary institutions, it is a decentralized issuing mode according to specific algorithms; The MLM currency is mainly issued by a certain institution, and the profit is made by pulling the head
(2) from the perspective of transaction mode, virtual currency is a kind of sporadic transaction spontaneously formed by the market. After the scale is formed, the transaction is graally completed by a third party establishing an exchange, while MLM currency is issued by an institution and traded on its own platform
(3) from the perspective of implementation, virtual currency itself is an open source program, while the open source of MLM currency is completely ing other people's open source code, and there is no use of open source code to build programs, which is essentially controlled by the website as Q coin.
The 60 kinds of pyramid selling virtual currencies broadcast by CCTV news include MBI, m3, Diablo, Asian currency, star currency, Jinyuan shopping alliance e-currency, Changjiang international virtual currency, qileba, micro TV media e-currency, bonus point currency, virtual gold coin, HGC, COA, LFG, Sri, bismall, ahkcap, CPF, Yifen, K currency, R currency, Baichuan currency, K Bao, Zhongfu Tongbao, Hongtong currency, etc Raines e-money
Global BlackRock No.1, Glasberg, BCI, m, wing, EV, performance, FIS, u, ES, zangbao performance, huiai e-money, jianyipan e-money, subsidy, hftag, Kaixin compound interest, kuailinian virtual currency, Shihua currency, ente currency, CPM, Kara currency and supreme currency
there are at least 65 kinds of "virtual currency" with different names, such as Wuhua union virtual currency, Meisheng e, Zhonghua currency, Mimi virtual currency, FIS, world Yunlian cloud currency, Liwu currency, Vicat currency, mark currency, Shanxin currency, Wuji currency, ATC, IPC, central currency, Wuxing currency, huiai currency and nautical currency
in the 141 cases of virtual currency pyramid selling found on China's judicial documents, the number of such criminal cases is increasing year by year. In 2014, the court ruled 5 cases, and then increased by multiple, to 62 cases in 2017. According to the judgment documents, among the above-mentioned virtual currency pyramid schemes, "Vicat" has the highest amount of money involved, with a total of 7 billion, and its global membership number is 10770000, with the largest number
in terms of the development scale of MLM organizations in China, "cloud coin" (also known as world UnionPay and world cloud Alliance Network MLM platform) has the largest number of MLM organizations (4391449); Second, the "dark money" pyramid marketing organization has developed more than 3.4 million members
source of reference: phoenix.com - virtual money pyramid scheme: 65 kinds of pyramid schemes cheat 10 million people, over 10 billion
the first category is familiar game currency. In the era of stand-alone games, the protagonist accumulates money by knocking down the enemy, entering the gambling house to win money, and using these to buy Herbs and equipment, but it can only be used in his own game console. At that time, there was no "market" between players. Since the establishment of Internet portal and community, the realization of game networking, virtual currency has a "financial market", players can trade game currency
the second type is the special currency issued by the portal website or instant messaging service provider, which is used to purchase the services in the website. The most widely used is Tencent's q-coin, which can be used to purchase membership, QQ show and other value-added services
the third kind of virtual currency on the Internet, such as bitcoin (BTC), Fuyuan coin (FTC), Wright currency (LTC), etc. bitcoin is an electronic currency proced by open-source P2P software. Some people also translate bitcoin as "bitcoin", which is a kind of network virtual currency
websites that can be traded include Fuyuan currency trading platform, bitcoin China, etc
the more well-known MLM currencies in the circle, such as Vicat, Baichuan, Morgan and so on. Cloud mining machine, compound interest offer, split offer, mutual aid offer, static income offer and dynamic income offer are also known as typical Ponzi schemes
bitcoin, Leyte coin, doggie coin and the tokens of European crowdfunding platform's crowdfunding projects are the real digital currencies.
This case of bitcoin online pyramid selling was officially solved on July 30 this year. It is a huge Transnational Online pyramid selling organization at home and abroad, involving more than 2 million participants. The hierarchical relationship is complex, with more than 3000 layers at the upper and lower levels. The total amount of money involved in the case is more than 40 billion yuan, which can be regarded as the case involving the widest area, the largest number of participants and the largest amount of money. This case is quite different from the previous pyramid scheme fraud, and it can be regarded as a new type of pyramid scheme. Its biggest feature is the use of the Internet for MLM, which brings the hidden MLM organizations from underground to the public's eyes{ RRRRR}
many people will find resources like virtual currency often mentioned in the news when they learn about the economic news moreover, in our daily life, we also feel special concern for such a relevant market. At the beginning of April, there was a big increase in global psychological money, which broke the historical record of US $200 million
bitcoin like this and virtual currency like Ethereum, and their prices have also repeatedly reached new highs, so they have attracted a large number of investors they also want to make such investment and financial management through their own other channels, and there may be some violations of the law and discipline. For example, for some virtual currencies, they may also have some other platforms, and they will also launch some platform currencies or counterfeit currencies. Although from now on, the market value of bitcoin is probably on the top of US $100 billion, many people still hold a more cautious and skeptical attitude towards bitcoin. After all, the rise of bitcoin is not always in a continuous upward trend, and there will be a decline