The meaning and characteristics of virtual currency

3. Today, with the rapid development of information technology, real money is far from meeting people's demand for capital flow. Virtual currency refers to the information flow or data flow that replaces the real currency in high technology

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%.

4. It's the currency used in the virtual world. There is no real object, just a symbol.

5. Digital currency is the abbreviation of digital currency. It is an alternative currency in the form of electronic currency. Both digital gold coin and cryptocurrency belong to digiccy. It can not be completely equivalent to the virtual currency in the virtual world, because it is often used for real goods and services transactions, not limited to online games and other virtual space. At present, the central bank does not recognize or issue digital currency, and digital currency does not have to have a benchmark currency. The popular digital currencies in 2015 include bitcoin, bitstocks, etc. At present, there are thousands of digital currencies issued all over the world
in February 2017, the central bank made new progress in issuing digital currency. The block chain based digital bill trading platform promoted by the central bank has been tested successfully. The legal digital currency issued by the central bank has been put into trial operation on the platform. After the Spring Festival, the digital currency Research Institute of the central bank will also be officially listed. This means that the people's Bank of China will be the first central bank to issue digital currency and carry out real application in the world.

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The differences between e-money and virtual money are as follows:

1. Electronic money refers to using a certain amount of cash or deposit to exchange from the issuer and obtain data representing the same amount, or through the quick payment service launched by the bank and the third party to transfer the balance in the bank through some electronic ways, so that transactions can be carried out. Strictly speaking, it is a kind of currency that consumers use the bank's Internet banking service to store value and make quick payment to the issuers of electronic currency, and make consumers trade electronically through media (two-dimensional code or hardware equipment)

Virtual currency refers to non real currency. Well known virtual currencies, such as online currency of Internet company, q-coin of Tencent company, q-point and voucher of Shanda company, micro currency launched by Sina (used for micro games, Sina reading, etc.), chivalrous Yuanbao (used for chivalrous road game), silver grain (used for bixue Qingtian game), and popular digital currencies in 2013 include bitcoin, Laite coin, infinite coin, quark coin, zeta coin, etc Barbecue coins, pennies (Internet), invisible gold bars, red coins, prime coins. At present, hundreds of digital currencies are issued all over the world. Popular in the circle & quot; The legend of "bitcoin, Wright silver, infinite copper, pennies aluminum"

The detailed explanation of electronic currency is as follows:

1. Concept: it is an encrypted serial number representing cash, which can be used to represent the currency value of various amounts in reality. With the transformation from paper-based economy to digital economy, e-cash will become the mainstream

2. Features: anonymity, transaction cost saving, transmission cost saving, low holding risk, flexible and convenient payment, anti-counterfeiting and anti repetition, non traceability

There are two kinds of e-cash: one is based on the Internet and keeps the binary data representing the value of money in the hard disk of the computer terminal; One is the electronic wallet that keeps the monetary value in the IC card and can be circulated without the bank payment system

4. Definition: consumers pay traditional money to the issuers of electronic money, and the issuers store the equal value of traditional money in the electronic devices held by consumers in electronic form

7. The mother currency is the total number of virtual coins issued by the system at the beginning. Please accept it

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9. The user of electronic currency exchanges and obtains the data representing the same amount from the issuer with certain cash and deposit, and stores it in the form of read-write electronic information. When the debt has to be paid off, the user can directly transfer the electronic data to the payment object through some electronic media and methods. This kind of electronic data is called electronic currency< As a proct of the combination of modern technology and modern financial business, e-money has the following outstanding characteristics:
1. E-money is a kind of virtual currency. It is a kind of invisible currency based on the highly developed bank electronic technology. It uses digital pulse instead of metal, paper and other carriers to transmit and display funds, and processes and stores them through chips. Therefore, it has no physical form, size, weight and imprint of traditional currency, and the holder can not get the actual feeling of holding
2. E-money is an online currency. Electronic money is usually transmitted on the private network and processed through POS and ATM. In other words, electronic money is a large amount of money circulating online through the network in addition to the existing banks, cheques and banknotes. The storage of electronic currency needs storage equipment, the exchange needs communication means, and the computer for encryption and decryption is needed to keep its security
3. Electronic currency is a kind of information currency. In the final analysis, e-money is nothing more than conceptual money information. It is actually a special information composed of a group of numbers including the user's identity, password, amount, scope of use, etc. When people use e-money transactions, they actually exchange relevant information. After the information is transmitted to the banks that set up this kind of business, the banks can settle the transactions for both sides, so that consumers and enterprises can receive and pay each other in a more economical, convenient and faster way than the real banking system< Generally speaking, e-money can be divided into the following two types:
1. Card based e-money system includes smart card and stored value card, both of which are plastic cards with purchasing power, in which the electronic value has been paid by the cardholder in advance“ "Kaki" procts are mainly micropayments designed for retail transactions, and show the potential to replace banknotes and coins in this field
2. Based on computer software procts, this kind of procts need to install special software on the computer, so that the electronic value can be transmitted through the telecommunication network. Software based systems mainly realize remote payment through computer network, and they have the strength to replace cash and other paperless payment tools to a certain extent
through the above analysis, we understand the basic concept, characteristics and classification of e-money. In addition, we know that e-money is the medium of e-payment. We can clearly see the role of e-money in the process of e-payment through figure 1.