The difference between virtual currency and ico

1. Currency is an official currency issued by the state. Generally speaking, virtual currency is a kind of currency similar to wechat that we usually use

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what is digital currency

digital currency can be used to describe all electronic currencies, including virtual currency and cryptocurrency. Digital currency is a kind of electronic currency without any physical form. Because of its functions and inherent attributes, it is the same as the standard illegal fixed currency, and can also be referred to as the network version of cash. Digital currency is invisible. People need to use and hold it through devices that can be connected to a specific network

T1: eth (the first public chain at present, the underlying platform of Shanzhai coin breeding, and in the speculation of eth2.0) EOS (community consensus + DAPP possible explosion + defi can also join + drop out of high cost performance) Zec (anonymous leader)

T2: Yas (UBI concept, low market value, great potential) atom (cosmos, advantage new public chain), XRP (the decline in 2019 has not risen, so the upward space is still very large) Polkadot dot (Boca, the goal is to surpass Ethereum) KSM (Boca pioneer)

T3: Ada (potential) NEO (myth of 1000 times of the last bull market), ont (strong village), Iost (Iost is currently undervalued, DAPP is also in good development)

there are platform coins in the coin circle, corresponding to HT, BNB, MX

3. ICO is actually the instry term of blockchain. It is the abbreviation of initial coin offering. It is the concept of initial public offering (IPO) derived from the stock market. It is the first time that blockchain projects issue tokens to raise bitcoin, Ethereum and other common digital currencies.

4. Bitcoin is a kind of virtual digital currency proposed by Nakamoto in 2009. It is characterized by no centralized issuing institution and a fixed total of 21 million pieces. It is not a one-time issue and needs to be proced by miners. Due to the decentralized structure, trust needs to rely on cryptography and consensus mechanism technology to achieve
blockchain is a general technology derived from bitcoin. It implements a decentralized database model. Bitcoin can be called blockchain 1.0 because it has no concept of smart contract. The key technologies of blockchain include cryptography encryption and decryption and consensus mechanism. Blockchain is generally used to combine with specific business logic, which needs to rely on smart contract, which provides an execution mode free from human interference
the IPO of ICO originates from the concept of initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market. It is the behavior of blockchain project to issue token for the first time, raise bitcoin and solve Ethereum and other common digital currencies.

5. ICO is very similar to IPO in form and final result
IPO is the initial public offering of a company. After IPO, the company can go to the securities exchange market for listing. Of course, there are various regulatory enforcement before and after the IPO, and the whole process is completed in reality
the difference of ICO is that the public offering party can be an indivial, a company, a community, or an institution. After the offering, it is listed and traded on the online virtual currency trading platform, such as smart star Witkey, XX eight, XX one proct, etc. the whole process is completed on the Internet
virtual currencies, such as bitcoin and Ethereum, have become fixed currency in circulation on the Internet, such as the US dollar in the real world. Most of the ICO process is not the project party selling its own equity, it should be said that it is the right to use, that is, the expected qualification of the future value of the proct
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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 so-called ICO, also known as the initial public offering of coins, takes bitcoin as the raising object. The project leader issues encrypted tokens to unspecified investors to finance the project. With the growth of beauty, social networking, Baijiu, athletics and other "wonderful" ICO projects, the bitcoin, represented by virtual currency, is also soaring. In April this year, bitcoin started to rise all the way from 6000 yuan. In August alone, bitcoin has set a new high price nine times, rising to 30299.99 yuan<

blockchain has existed as early as ten years ago

fundamentally speaking, the popularity of ICO cannot be separated from the support of bitcoin and other virtual currencies. In the case of "90% of ICO projects are unreliable", no matter what the ICO market is, even bitcoin and other virtual currencies, which are the objects of fund-raising, have been criticized for a long time

8. It seems that their company is doing blockchain.

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