Report on virtual currency transaction
Domestic trading platforms continue to expand the proportion of trading volume in the market, which is in sharp contrast to the "running away" storm encountered by foreign bitcoin trading websites. Mt. GOx, once the world's largest bitcoin trading website, collapsed (on February 25, 2014, Mt. GOx was "declared" bankrupt and could no longer log on. On March 28, Mt. GOx officially filed for bankruptcy, and announced on its website on March 3, 2014 that about 850000 bitcoins were illegally transferred e to the exploitation of bitcoin system vulnerabilities.), It has attracted the attention of bitcoin investors all over the world. Subsequently, flexcoin, a bitcoin trading website in Singapore, suddenly went out of business. Due to the bankruptcy of Mt. GOx, bitcoin transactions on domestic websites also showed obvious fluctuations. On February 25, the domestic bitcoin price once dropped from nearly 3600 yuan to 3050 yuan (a few days later, the bitcoin price returned to around 3865 yuan). In spite of the international panic, the sharp drop in prices can not stop the enthusiasm of Chinese domestic investors
China's bitcoin trading websites have benefited from the storm. According to some data, the trading volume of bitcoin in mainland China now accounts for 70% ~ 80% of the global trading volume, and even the largest trading platform of bitcoin has been taken away by China's bitcoin trading websites. RMB is the second largest currency in the bitcoin exchange market, only next to the US dollar, accounting for 1 / 3. China's market has become a gathering place for bitcoin players. Some experts believe that the biggest reason for the rise in the price of bitcoin is the large number of Chinese buyers. According to the volume data of the largest bitcoin trading platform in China, after the collapse of Mt. GOx on February 25, 2014, the domestic trading volume dropped by nearly 7%, with 334562 transactions (about 1.1 billion yuan) on that day. After that, the trading volume graally stabilized. By March 4, the trading volume rose by 14.05%, reaching 339830 (1.4 billion yuan). From February 25 to March 13, the trading volume in 17 days was 9 billion yuan, 16% higher than that in the previous 17 days. On March 21, 2014, some media reported that the central bank issued a document on March 18, 2014 demanding that all bitcoin transactions be stopped before April 15, 2014. In response to this rumor, the central bank said publicly on the evening of March 21, 2014 through its microblog that it was a false report< At the same time, the central bank said that bitcoin's attitude has been clearly stated in the notice on preventing bitcoin risks (hereinafter referred to as the "notice") issued by the people's Bank of China and other five ministries and commissions
according to the circular issued by the central bank in December 2013, although bitcoin is known as "currency", it is not a real currency because it is not issued by the monetary authority and has no monetary attributes such as legal compensation and compulsion. In nature, bitcoin should be a specific virtual commodity, which does not have the same legal status as currency, and can not and should not be used as currency in the market
the circular also requires that all financial institutions and Payment institutions in China shall not carry out bitcoin related business. Financial institutions and Payment institutions shall not price procts or services with bitcoin, buy or sell bitcoin or act as central counterparties, underwrite insurance business related to bitcoin or include bitcoin into the scope of insurance liability, or directly or indirectly provide customers with other services related to bitcoin
including bitcoin registration, trading, clearing, settlement and other services for customers; Accept bitcoin or use bitcoin as a payment and settlement tool; Carry out bitcoin and RMB and foreign currency exchange services; Carry out bitcoin storage, custody, mortgage and other services; Issuing financial procts related to bitcoin; Take bitcoin as the investment target of trust, fund, etc. Official supervision
on the afternoon of December 5, 2013, the Central Bank of China and other five ministries and commissions jointly issued a notice to guard against bitcoin risks, requiring financial institutions and Payment institutions not to price procts or services with bitcoin. Within an hour of the news, bitcoin prices fell by 35%. At that time, as soon as the policies of the five ministries and commissions came out, the survival space of domestic bitcoin trading websites was greatly doubted. This day was jokingly called "the darkest day for domestic bitcoin entrepreneurs". However, the official policy has not affected the vigorous development of domestic trading platform. These bitcoin trading websites avoid these problems through flexible ways such as bank transfer, transfer recharge and point card recharge
the enthusiasm of the people
Chinese players have become the main crowd in the purchase of bitcoin, which has directly led to the popularity of Chinese bitcoin trading websites, and even the crown of "the world's largest trading platform" has rotated among bitcoin trading websites in China. This scale really surprised many people in the financial sector. Not long after China's regulatory authorities warned about the risks of bitcoin, domestic bitcoin trading websites did not suffer too much impact and quickly walked out of the haze
platform strategy
there are about 5-6 mainstream bitcoin trading platforms in China, which mainly earn income by collecting transaction fees and value-added service fees. However, the transaction rates of these bitcoin trading platforms are very low. With the trading volume and user scale, these trading platforms can also find other more profit points. The development of derivatives and the launch of new trading currencies have become a breakthrough: financial derivatives such as "financing currency" have also begun to appear, and other virtual currencies such as Leyte currency have also become expanded trading varieties
in addition, the "ambition" of these trading platforms is not only related to this, many trading platforms are also further expanding the upstream and downstream instrial chain, such as trying to develop bitcoin wallet, bitcoin payment tools and other applications
according to the report issued by the Institute of international finance, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the market price of bitcoin is determined by supply and demand, and public expectation plays an important role. Bitcoin trading network said on April 10, 2014 that it has received a telephone notice from Hangzhou Science and Technology City branch of Agricultural Bank of China that it will stop using the company's account for settlement of bitcoin related business on April 15. If it fails to stop within the time limit, the company's bank account will be frozen on April 15
bitcoin trading website niucoin has also received calls from instrial and Commercial Bank of China Hangzhou Jiulian sub branch, China Construction Bank Hangzhou Huaxing sub branch and Agricultural Bank of China Hangzhou Science and Technology City sub branch, saying that e to the notice from the superior operation management department, it will stop providing services for niucoin and close its account before April 12. However, there are still eight other banks, including Bank of China, China Merchants Bank and Instrial Bank, which have not been affected. In June 2014, California governor Jerry Brown signed a law to remove restrictions on non dollar currencies. California's old corporate law, section 107, forbids companies or indivials to issue non dollar currencies, that is, virtual currencies and bonus points, such as Amazon coins and Starbucks stars, which are technically illegal. The new bill repeals this provision, and its author, Roger Dickinson, points out that the law ignores the growing reality of alternative currencies and is therefore unrealistic
following the release of bitcoin based electronic signatures on Tuesday, British Finance Minister George Osborne signaled Britain's intention to legalize bitcoin or other similar currency system as digital currency, the Daily Mail reported in 2014.
in view of the possible risks of virtual currency, many international organizations and central banks have responded publicly to the supervision of virtual currency system. These responses can be roughly divided into four categories: warning and risk warning, supervision and registration permission, legislative norms, and explicit prohibition
(1) warning and risk warning
some central banks and regulators have issued risk warnings against the special currency and virtual currency system. The federal financial regulatory authority of Germany, the Bank of France, the central banks of the Netherlands and Belgium have issued public warnings against the possible money laundering and terrorist financing caused by the use of bitcoin. In the report released at the end of 2013, the European Banking authority (EBA) warned consumers of many risks of virtual currency, such as exchange loss, e-wallet theft, unprotected payment, price fluctuation and so on. Although Spain did not have a similar risk warning, it issued a timely information announcement related to virtual currency
(2) supervision and registration license
generally speaking, international organizations believe that the supervision of virtual currency should find a balance between risk prevention and innovation promotion. Since 2012, Sweden has required transactions related to virtual currency to be registered with financial regulators. Other countries pay attention to qualification supervision, so as to make it indirectly meet the requirements of prudential supervision. In other countries, the regulation mainly focuses on the business model of virtual currency transaction. The financial prudential regulatory authority of France regards the provision of bitcoin circulation and trading services and the act of earning funds in the process as a payment service and requires the authorization of the government. In addition, some countries focus on the intermediary institutions related to virtual currency. The German federal financial regulatory agency and Danish regulators believe that the provision of intermediary services for virtual currency needs to be authorized< (3) legislative norms
at present, some countries have proposed legislation to regulate virtual currency transactions. Canada plans to legislate to allow the government to supervise the transaction of bitcoin, and to include the transaction of more than US $10000 into the scope of suspicious supervision. The United States hopes to adjust the relevant legal structure should be compared with the development of the special currency. In order to make the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) applicable in the context of network, the financial crime enforcement network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued the explanatory guidance on the behavior and subject definition of private generation, holding, distribution, trading, acceptance and transmission of virtual currency in 2013. The European central bank stressed that it should strengthen international cooperation under the existing legal framework, and regulate virtual currency from the European and global level under the existing legal framework. More countries believe that bitcoin is not a currency in circulation, has no legal status, and does not meet the definition of financial instruments, such as Finland, Sweden, Malaysia and Indonesia
(4) it is forbidden
in some countries, bitcoin related transactions are prohibited. In December 2013, the people's Bank of China banned financial institutions from trading in bitcoin, which was subsequently extended to payment service providers. The central banks of Thailand and Indonesia share the same attitude. The circulation of anonymous internet currency (including bitcoin) is prohibited by the Russian judicial inspection department as a substitute for currency. The Central Bank of Russia has earlier included the provision of bitcoin services in the scope of suspicious transaction monitoring. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has banned the issue of unregistered shares in exchange for bitcoin, and unregistered online securities trading activities in virtual currency.
bitcoin price has been cut by the waist
how to implement blockchain application is still the main problem. In addition to bitcoin, the large-scale application of blockchain in other scenarios has not yet reached the commercial stage. Looking back to the second half of 2017, the price of bitcoin almost reached a new high every day, and finally reached the peak in the South Korean exchange with the highest premium in the world - about 140000 yuan per piece. On June 3, 2018, as of press time, coinbase bitcoin trading platform quoted 49688 yuan, and the price of bitcoin has been cut. Since the beginning of this year, the price of bitcoin has rarely seen eye popping ups and downs, and the overall trend of monthly decline
bitcoin development status
according to the data of the in-depth analysis report on business model innovation and investment opportunities of the blockchain instry released by the foresight Instry Research Institute, bitcoin prices showed a downward trend in May, with the overall market value falling from US $157.3 billion at the beginning of the month to US $127.4 billion at the end of the month, a decrease of 19%; In addition, there are 444000 active addresses and 197000 transfers per day. From the trend point of view, the number of active addresses and daily transfers are positively correlated with the transaction price. In May, the overall trend is volatile, and the downward trend is very obvious
reasons for the steady decline of bitcoin in the past half year
how to understand the "steady decline" of bitcoin in the past half year? There are two main reasons: firstly, the most important reason is that institutional investors and speculators who have accumulated a large number of "profit" are cashing in their profits and leaving the market; Secondly, before the blockchain instry has no real application and profit model, the rise of bitcoin price can only be regarded as speculative speculation. In addition, it is an undeniable fact that the Central Bank of China has made a decisive move to close the bitcoin trading platform, which has achieved remarkable results in preventing bitcoin speculation
at present, the domestic bitcoin exchanges have basically moved to foreign countries, which has nothing to do with China. Investors operate on those platforms at their own risk
the current market is not very good. Only when the market is good, can investors find ways to participate in bitcoin investment. As the total market value of the coin circle is still small, with more blockchain applications, there is still potential in the future
over consumed blockchain
e to the "tepid" price of bitcoin, blockchain, as its underlying technology, has reached the level of "known to all women and children", and even surpassed bitcoin in recent years
recently, a series of related reports are suspected of making up for the number and full of hype, and blockchain has obviously been over consumed. In addition to bitcoin, the large-scale application of blockchain in other scenarios has not yet reached the commercial stage
with the graal deepening of the understanding of blockchain technology, domestic enterprises have laid out blockchain technology, platforms and applications, including Internet enterprises such as network, Tencent, Ali, Jingdong, Netease, major banks, financial enterprises such as Ping An of China and Huawei. In terms of application, China actively explores and promotes blockchain + applications in the form of alliance chain and private chain to help solve the pain points of related instries, improve efficiency and rece costs.
Germany: at the end of June 2013, the German parliament decided that bitcoin would be tax-free if it was held for more than one year. Bitcoin was recognized as the "unit of account" by the German Ministry of finance, which means that bitcoin has been regarded as legal currency in Germany and can be used to pay taxes and engage in trade activities
United States: in August 2013, judge Amos mazant of Texas District Court ruled in a case of bitcoin virtual hedge fund that bitcoin is a kind of currency and should be included in the scope of financial regulations
China: in China, the regulations on the administration of RMB prohibit the proction and sale of token tickets. Because there is no clear judicial interpretation of the definition of token ticket, if bitcoin is included in the "token ticket", the legal prospect of bitcoin in China will face uncertainty< On June 4, 2009, the notice of the Ministry of culture and the Ministry of Commerce on strengthening the management of virtual currency in online games (Wen Shi Fa [2009] No. 20) stated that the scope of application of virtual currency in online games was defined for the first time, and a distinction was made between the current virtual currency in online games and the virtual props in games; At the same time, the notice said that the "notice" stipulates that enterprises engaged in related services must be approved before they can operate
in China, some Taobao stores have begun to accept the use of bitcoin, and the number of businesses will graally increase
in October 2013, the first bitcoin quarterly, one bit, was released
on October 15, 2013, the network accelerator service of the network announced its support for bitcoin
on October 26, 2013, btcmini reported that GBL was hacked
on October 31, 2013, Lei Teng, a famous Internet lawyer, proposed the event of "filing a case to investigate the closure of GBL bitcoin trading platform as soon as possible", analyzed the "value function" and "use function" of bitcoin, and bitcoin should be governed by relevant laws
in recent years, the price of bitcoin has risen rapidly, which has led to the rise of a number of virtual currencies, and then triggered a large number of people to follow suit. In the market, there is a saying that "it is better to speculate in stocks than in real estate"
however, the explosion of bitcoin has also caused great controversy. J. P. Morgan CEO Jamie; Jamie Dimon snapped bitcoin in the middle of this month, calling it "a fraud.". Recently, Mike Novogratz, a legendary fund manager who has sung many digital currencies, said, "bitcoin will be the biggest bubble in our life." The following is the full text of bitcoin China announcement:
bitcoin China will close the digital assets and RMB recharge function at 12:00 noon on September 27, Beijing time
the ensuing ban on bitcoin mining is natural.
the promotion and marketing mode of portcoin is suspected of MLM. Bitcoin home once reported that an aunt bought 20000 portcoin under the expulsion of interests, and finally the website couldn't get in, so the money was wasted.