How many times of virtual currency listed
About 400 percent
when bitcoin first appeared in 2009, one dollar could buy almost 1300 bitcoins. Before April 2011, the price of each bitcoin was always below $1. In June 2011, the highest price of bitcoin rose to $30. Then, the price almost fell within a week. In 2012, the price of bitcoin once fell below $2
further dropped to $114 on January 14, 2015. Since then, bitcoin has begun to rise again. In 2017, after the bitcoin ETF fund was rejected by the US Securities Regulatory Commission, bitcoin plummeted by $315 to below $1000. After that, it rose again. In the first four months of this year, the price of bitcoin and an ounce of gold were almost equal
However, with the strong rise of bitcoin in this round, the price of bitcoin has exceeded the price of an ounce of gold. On April 26, the price of bitcoin was $1282.97, compared with $1264 for an ounce of gold. Bitcoin has surpassed gold in price
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in 2016, there were dozens of bitcoin exchanges in the world, and the trading volume of bitcoin in most countries and regions increased sharply. Among the countries and regions with the highest growth rate, the trading volume of bitcoin in Japan is second only to China, ranking second in the world; The local bitcoin trading volume in Venezuela increased by more than 913%
South Korea has become the sixth largest bitcoin trading market in the world, Korean people can buy bitcoin from a large number of convenience stores, and korbit's trading volume currently accounts for 70% of the South Korean market; Local bitcoin transactions in Colombia increased by about 370%; Bitcoin markets in Malaysia, Russia and Australia are also developing rapidly. Bitcoin trading in China once accounted for more than 80% of the global trading volume
virtual currency is the proct of the Internet, which refers to non real currency. In the case of the connection between virtual and reality, virtual currency has its real value
the well-known virtual currencies are familiar to everyone, such as the network currency of the network company, the Q currency of Tencent company, the Q point, the voucher of Shanda company, and the micro currency launched by Sina; In recent years, the popular digital currencies include bitcoin, Wright coin, infinite coin, quark coin, zeta coin, barbecue coin, penny coin, invisible gold bar, red coin, prime currency, etc. at present, there are more than 100 kinds of digital virtual currencies issued all over the world
Second, the classification of virtual currency
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 so on, and uses these to buy materials 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 category 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 category is virtual currency on the Internet, such as bitcoin (BTC), lightmoney (LTC), etc. 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< Third, the development of virtual currency has just begun in the long history of mankind, and the decentralized cryptography currency bitcoin is the most famous. Bitcoin, as a concept, came into being in 2008 and was put forward by a mysterious expert with the pseudonym of "Nakamoto Tsung". At that time, bitcoin was worthless, but there were always player transactions, which made it grow slowly from 2009 to 2012, especially in the second half of 2012, showing explosive growth, with the highest value of 8000 yuan per currency. This makes many players who are not bitcoin come in and regard it as a way of investment and financial management. From 2009 to now, bitcoin has been recognized by one country, and now more than 100 countries are using and circulating bitcoin
since 2015, the application process of cryptocurrency has begun to accelerate, and more and more cryptocurrency has graally entered the life of ordinary people, and is increasingly widely used in the world. Virtual currency can not only be used for financial management, but also can be used to buy goods. In the future, it will circulate in the world like traditional currency
all kinds of signs show that virtual currency will replace traditional currency.
for example, BNB was a few cents at that time, but now it's more than 200