What is Internet virtual currency
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
according to the notice and announcement issued by the people's Bank of China and other departments, virtual currency is not issued by the monetary authority, does not have legal compensation and mandatory monetary attributes, is not a real currency, does not have the same legal status as currency, cannot and should not be used as currency in the market, and citizens' investment and transaction of virtual currency are not protected by law
the content of this article comes from: financial code of the people's Republic of China: application edition, China Law Press
virtual currency is different from check and wire transfer. The value that virtual currency can't realize can't be transferred by bank. At present, it can only circulate in the network world. Virtual currency is released by various network organizations, and there is no unified issuance and management standard
according to incomplete statistics, there are no less than 10 kinds of network virtual currency (referred to as network currency) currently in circulation, such as Q currency, u currency, network currency, bubble currency, cool currency, Warcraft gold coin, Paradise currency, Shanda counting, etc. Take Q coin as an example, there are more than 200 million users. Instry insiders estimate that the domestic Internet has a virtual money market scale of several billion yuan per year, and is growing at a speed of 15% - 20%.
there are mainly three kinds:
first, game currency. Mainly used in the game between the players can trade with each other< Second, special currency. Generally speaking, the website (or service provider) issued, more for the purchase of internal services
Third, virtual currency on the network, such as bitcoin (BTC), Wright currency (LTC), etc. Mainly used for Internet financial investment; However, several major trading platforms in China have graally implemented virtual currency trading
generally speaking, virtual currency investment is not recommended
because virtual currency is not legal tender, it lacks supervision mechanism; If you want to invest, it is recommended to choose the right financial procts through formal legal institutions.
Internet digital currency itself will not cheat people. Internet digital currency is just a tool, it depends on the people who use it
since 2013, digital currency has been popular all over the world, and has been on the front page of major news for many times
however, the digital money pyramid schemes also emerge one after another
the typical mode of digital money pyramid selling is to choose a ready-made one, or simply program yourself to invent a digital currency
1. Package several "experts", "elites" and "government officials"
2. Publicize all kinds of cases of making a fortune online and offline. Design the illusion of digital currency appreciation
3. The cheated directly invest to buy the digital currency
4. Give the cheated a compound interest reward or a direct rebate after the end of the investment cycle. Rewards are also digital money itself
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6. Organizers sell a large number of digital currencies for cash, and the currency price will drop sharply
7. Claiming to be attacked by hackers, claiming to be controlled by makers, resulting in the decline of currency price
8. Running
the pyramid selling of digital currency is a combination of general pyramid selling, Ponzi scheme and direct selling. Compared with general pyramid selling, digital currency pyramid selling has three additional characteristics:
1. And the packaging is very advanced
2. Participants can get a head pulling reward. The prize is the digital currency itself
3. Digital currency tends to appreciate as more people participate in the scam. Participants can obtain the growth of the number of digital currency itself and the growth of book converted legal currency, including the lowest level participants
conclusion: in the early stage of digital money pyramid scheme, it is pyramid scheme, and in the later stage, it turns into Ponzi scheme immediately.
The essence of money is the general equivalent. In the process of the continuous development and evolution of human history, it has gone through the stage of physical money, the stage of substitute money, and then entered the stage of credit money. In primitive society, people exchanged livestock, salt, shells and other hard to get goods as general equivalents
in the long history, the emergence of metal currency makes the economic life achieve unprecedented prosperity. However, e to the inconvenience of carrying metal money, paper money became the mainstream form of money. With the rapid development of modern information technology, e-money has come into our life
if the evolution process from physical money to value symbol paper money is the first qualitative leap in the history of money development, then the evolution process from paper money to electronic money is the second qualitative leap in the history of money development
from the perspective of money form, physical money itself is a commodity in addition to performing monetary functions; Paper money is a symbolic tool of value for commodity exchange and a credit currency; Electronic currency is the proct of highly developed Internet economy and continuous progress of bank payment and settlement technology. It not only has the function of traditional currency, but also can continuously improve digital currency
At the same time, the virtual money market based on electronic information is also booming. By the end of 2014, the number of Internet users in China had reached 632 million, including 517 million registered users in the online game market and 114.48 billion yuan of sales revenue, an actual increase of 37.7% over the previous yeara huge virtual space based on the Internet has been formally formed. As a kind of virtual currency with intrinsic value, convenient online trading behavior, low transaction cost, and service providers' issuance, it emerges as the times require
first of all, from the functional analysis. Virtual currency is a kind of transaction medium in the Internet virtual space, which has the function of value scale, but the value scale of virtual currency is different from that of legal currency
using virtual currency to purchase virtual procts and services can only be within the scope specified and allowed by the issuer of virtual currency (Internet operator), and the size of this scope depends on the number of virtual procts and services. If the virtual procts and services provided by the website are large enough, the scope of virtual currency will be large
the currency value of virtual currency depends on the pricing of virtual currency by issuers. When no currency can communicate between virtual cyberspace and reality, the pricing of procts and services is still based on real RMB. That is to say, when issuers of virtual currency price their own virtual currency, they should first convert the price of virtual currency based on RMB
however, digital currency is under study and will be issued in the future.