Pyramid schemes make money by virtual currency

1. May involve illegal fund-raising and pyramid selling and other related criminal crimes
(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.

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Virtual currency is not MLM

virtual currency refers to non real currency. Well known virtual currencies, such as online currency of Internet company, QQ currency of Tencent company, q-point, voucher of Shanda company, micro currency launched by Sina, chivalrous Yuanbao, silver pattern. Digital currencies include bitcoin, Wright coin, infinite coin, quark coin, zeta coin, barbecue coin, penny coin, invisible gold bar, red coin and prime currency. At present, hundreds of digital currencies are issued all over the world

< H2 > development materials:

network virtual currency can be roughly divided into

the first category is the 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 and Wright currency. 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. It is mainly used for Internet financial investment, and can also be directly used in daily life as a new currency

< H2 > reference: virtual currency network

3. Identifying whether virtual currency is a pyramid scheme is a bit of a bluff
the purpose of offline development and the t of high return is MLM
for MLM, you can refuse to join.

4. They give you sweets first. When you taste the sweet beans, they believe it. Then they cheat you in step by step. Finally, you lose more money because of small losses. So don't believe in this kind of proct

5. If it is impossible to confirm whether it is MLM or not only by one activity or commodity name, it should be judged according to its specific operation mode
MLM refers to the behavior of organizers or operators who seek illegal benefits, disrupt economic order and affect social stability by calculating and paying remuneration to the developed personnel based on their number of directly or indirectly developed personnel or sales performance, or requiring the developed personnel to obtain the qualification to join in on the condition of paying certain fees
MLM can be simply summarized as follows:
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2. Need to constantly find partners, and set up a team under the guise of doubling income to ince others
3. Decide how much you will get in return according to the number of people below and their business performance
4. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to make the offline pay 1 yuan to the online, and the online said to teach the offline how to earn 50 yuan. As a result, when the offline gave the online 1 yuan, the online told the offline to find the same 10 idiots to do offline< According to Article 7 of the regulations of the State Council on the prohibition of pyramid selling, the following acts belong to pyramid selling:
(1) organizers or business operators, through development personnel, require other personnel developed by the developed personnel to join, and calculate and pay remuneration (including material rewards and other economic benefits) to the developed personnel based on the number of personnel developed directly or indirectly, (the same below) seeking illegal interests
(2) the organizer or business operator, through the developer, requires the developed person to pay fees or pay fees in disguised form by way of subscribing for commodities, so as to obtain the qualification of joining or developing other persons to join and seek illegal interests
(3) the organizer or business operator, through the development personnel, requests other personnel developed by the development personnel to join, forms the relationship between the upper and lower line, and calculates and pays the online remuneration based on the sales performance of the lower line, so as to seek illegal interests.