What does virtual currency POS mean
virtual currency is the currency used for electronic circulation. Now the scope of virtual currency is very large, including q-coin, bitcoin and so on. With the development of digital currency, virtual currency is becoming more and more abundant, which may become the mainstream in the future. For example, BTC, EOS, bcbot and so on are not only virtual currencies, but also algorithms, landing projects and technologies
virtual currency is mainly issued by online game service providers to purchase game props, such as equipment, clothing, etc. But at present, the use of virtual currency has gone far beyond this category. Virtual currency can be used to buy game cards, physical objects and download services of some movies and software
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real risk
as the proct of e-commerce, virtual currency has begun to play an increasingly important role, and it is more and more connected with the real world. However, with the growth of virtual currency, the relevant laws and regulations are lagging behind, which has laid many hidden dangers
fraud
the private transaction of online virtual currency has realized the two-way circulation between virtual currency and RMB to a certain extent. The activity of these traders is to buy all kinds of virtual currencies and procts at a low price, and then sell them at a high price to earn profits. With the increase of such transactions, there are even virtual mints. In addition to the virtual currency provided by the main company, there are also some people who specialize in "virtual coin making" to obtain virtual currency by playing games and then resell it to other players
Taking Wenzhou as an example, there are about seven or eight such "virtual mints" with four or five hundred practitioners. This not only creates a bubble for the price of the virtual currency itself, but also causes trouble for the normal sale of the issuing company. It also provides a platform for selling and collecting money and money laundering for various cyber crimes. p>
impact system
in modern financial system, the issuers of money are generally central banks, which are responsible for the management and supervision of money operation. As the equivalent exchange goods used to replace the real currency circulation on the Internet, the virtual currency on the Internet is essentially the same as the real currency. The difference is that the issuers are no longer central banks, but Internet companies
if the development of virtual currency makes it form a unified market, each company can exchange with each other, or virtual currency is integrated and unified, and all of them are based on the same standard and price, then in a sense, virtual currency is currency, which is likely to form a threat impact on the traditional financial system or economic operation
reference: network virtual currency
POW: full name of proof of work
pos: proof of stake
both of them are the consensus mechanism of blockchain and the bookkeeping method of digital currency
the difference is:
1. POW mechanism: workload proof mechanism, that is, the proof of workload, is the requirement that must be met when generating a new transaction information (that is, a new block) to be added to the blockchain. In the blockchain network based on workload proof mechanism, the ability of nodes to obtain the correct numerical solution to generate blocks by calculating the numerical solution of random hash hash is the specific performance of node computing power
POS mechanism: the proof of rights and interests requires the certifier to provide a certain amount of ownership of cryptocurrency. The operation mode of the proof of rights and interests mechanism is that when creating a new block, the miners need to create a "currency right" transaction, and the transaction will send some coins to the miners themselves according to the preset proportion. According to the proportion and time of token owned by each node, the equity proof mechanism reces the mining difficulty of nodes proportionally according to the algorithm, so as to speed up the speed of searching for random numbersextended materials:
the concept of bitcoin was first proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. According to Nakamoto's ideas, the open source software and the P2P network on it were designed and released. Bitcoin is a kind of P2P digital currency. Point to point transmission means a decentralized payment system
unlike most currencies, bitcoin does not rely on specific currency institutions. It is generated by a large number of calculations based on specific algorithms. Bitcoin economy uses the distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The decentralized nature and algorithm of P2P can ensure that it is impossible to artificially manipulate the value of bitcoin through mass proction
What does this mean? That is to say, how much money you get depends on the effective work you contribute to mining. In other words, the better the performance of your computer, the more money you will be allocated. This is to allocate money according to your work certificate. Most virtual currencies, such as bitcoin, Leyte and Ruitai, are based on the pow mode (the higher the computing power and the longer the mining time, the more money you get)
pos: proof of stake
What does that mean? In short, it is a system to pay you interest according to the amount and time of currency you hold. In the POS mode of certificate of equity, there is a term called currency age. Each currency has one currency age every day. For example, if you hold 100 currencies for 30 days, then your currency age is 3000. At this time, if you find a POS block, Your currency age will be cleared to 0. Every time you are cleared 365 coins, you will get interest of 0.05 coins from the block (which can be understood as 5% annual interest rate). In this case, interest = 3000 * 5% / 365 = 0.41 coins, which is very interesting. Holding coins has interest, very good!
Private key: in fact, it is a group of random numbers. We have already introced the random numbers in the blockchain
public key: the private key is generated by elliptic curve encryption algorithm, but the private key cannot be obtained by public key inversion. The function of public key is to encrypt information with one's own private key when dealing with the other party, and then the other party decrypts the original information with one's own public key. This process is commonly known as signature
address: because the public key is too long and inconvenient to use in the transaction, the public key hash is encrypted with sha256, ripemd160 and base58 algorithms to generate the address
first, the random number generator is used to generate a "private key". The subsequent public key and address will be generated by the private key, so the importance of the private key can be summarized in one sentence: & quot; Who has the private key, who has the right to use the wallet& quot;
"private key" is encrypted by elliptic curve algorithm (secp256k1) to generate & #; Public key;. This is an asymmetric one-way encryption algorithm. Knowing the private key can calculate the public key, but knowing the public key can't reverse calculate the private key
"public key" generates "public key hash"
through one-way hash algorithm (sha256, ripemd160), and connects a byte of address version number to the "public key hash" header (for the pubkey address of bitcoin network, The first four bytes of the result are used as the check value of "public key hash" and connected at the end of it
encode the previous result with base58 (customized version of bitcoin) to get the "wallet address"