How to calculate the market value of virtual currency
litecoin (LTC), released on October 7, 2011, is the most valuable counterfeit coin at present, accounting for about 2% of BTC's market value. The current unit price is US $2.31, with a total currency value of US $38 million
this is also a distributed (decentralized) digital currency. Unlike the sha256 mining algorithm used by bitcoin, LTC adopts scrypt algorithm. Scrypt algorithm uses sha256 as its subroutine, and scrypt itself needs a lot of memory. Each hash is used as the seed of the input, and then it needs a lot of memory to store another pseudo-random sequence to generate the pseudo-random points of the sequence and output the hash value. In the mining of BTC (bitcoin), it is not enough to rely on simple graphics card mining (it takes about ten to dozens of days to dig a BTC with general configuration graphics card). The emergence of various expensive mining machines has raised the threshold for ordinary people to get BTC through mining, while LTC has certain advantages in using PC graphics card mining This passage comes from Zhihu.)
compared with BTC, litecain has made a little improvement in technology. If BTC is gold now, LTC is silver for the time being
the biggest advantage of litecoin is that it can confirm the authenticity faster. The virtual currency is designed and maintained by Charles Lee. Bitcoin transactions need to be verified, and the average verification time is more than 10 minutes. Most transaction websites need 1 hour to verify. The average transaction confirmation time of liteoin is 2.5 minutes. Developers claim that shortening the verification time increases the practicability of virtual currency. The bitcoin mining efficiency of customized machine and AMD GPU is the highest, making it almost unprofitable for miners using CPU mining. Litecain's mining excludes GPUs and custom processors, so it doesn't rely too much on a small number of professional miners
ppcoin
ppcoin (PPC) was released on August 19, 2012, which has improved the original technology of BTC. Use proof of make and add the concept of coin age
ppcoin is a bifurcated project of bitcoin, which aims to achieve energy efficiency and maintain the best performance of the original bitcoin as far as possible. The unit price of ppcoin is US $0.22 and the total currency value is US $4 million
ppcoin does not have a fixed upper limit of money supply, but it does not mean that ppcoin has obvious inflation compared with bitcoin. Bitcoin can be compared to gold. The annual inflation rate of gold is about 1-3%. Although gold has no known upper limit of money supply, we still know that it is a reliable scarce commodity
ppcoin has two types of casting: work certificate and equity certificate. The coinage rate of working proof is affected by Moore's law, which depends on the doubling of our working proof ability. What we all know is that Moore's law will eventually come to an end. By then, the ppcoin of inflation may be close to the gold level. The annual maximum inflation rate of certificate of equity is 1%. At the same time, ppcoin's transaction costs were destroyed to fight inflation. So on the whole, the coin design of ppcoin is still a very low inflation design in the future, which can be comparable with bitcoin<
ppcoin's reward is similar to lottery, which will determine the winning probability according to the number of ppcoin held by miners. Sunny king, one of the founders, said that their design is based on a new concept of long-term energy efficiency
terracoin
terracoin (TRC) was released on October 26, 2012, with a total currency of 42 million. The speed of each block is 2 minutes, slightly faster than LTC. There is not much special in technology, similar to the proction of BTC halved every four years
however, the operation team seems to have a strong business background and may be better than other bitcoins in circulation. The development of virtual currency is getting more and more attention. Now some teams with business background will accelerate the development of virtual currency
namecoin
namecoin is a distributed domain name system based on bitcoin technology. Its principle is the same as bitcoin. The first release date of this open source software is April 18, 2011
namecoin is generated from an original block which is different from bitcoin's main trading block. It uses a new blockchain, which is independent of bitcoin's blockchain. Because it is based on bitcoin, the security, distribution, robustness, encryption and migration of domain names are guaranteed mathematically. You can dig bitcoin and namecoin at the same time
this project was discussed and proposed by bitdns, which is mainly dissatisfied with the defects of DNS. The only top-level domain name of namecoin is. Bit. It costs namecoin to register a. Bit domain name.
in addition to bitcoin, there are Ethereum, Ruitai, Laite, doggy, Ruibo and so on.
generally speaking, the market value is determined by the quantity in circulation rather than the total circulation. Because circulation quantity can better measure market value. The locked and predetermined ones can not be sold on the open market, which will not affect the currency price, so it will not affect the market value. The method of using circulating quantity is similar to using circulating shares to determine the market value of traditional investment
at present, the market value of bitcoin has reached more than 70%, occupying an absolute dominant position, while the market value of other currencies is declining. In the long run, the market value of the whole digital currency is growing. If we can seize the opportunity, we will get rich returns.
As of 14:24 Beijing time on the 27th, data from coindesk showed that bitcoin was quoted at US $27372 per coin, up more than 10% in 24 hours. The total market value of bitcoin is 508.6 billion US dollars (about 3.3 trillion yuan) , and it can buy about 22 Yunnan Baiyao (the latest total market value of a shares is 146.3 billion)
it is understood that since the birth of bitcoin in 2009, its first price was about US $0.0025 when it was purchased in 2010. Based on the price of US $27000, the price increase of bitcoin since its birth has reached 10.8 million times
that is to say, the original investment of RMB 1 can buy 61.3 bitcoins, and the current position value is RMB 10.8 million. Even if bitcoin has made such an amazing increase, Citibank recently announced a target price of $300000, which is 11 times higher than the current price P>
expansion data:
24 hours, the whole network burst warehouse 4 billion 600 million
controversy surrounding bitcoin has never stopped, some people think it is hype, sooner or later, it will be "tulips bubble", some people think that the bitcoin's scarcity has pushed up its rise. So some are short and some are long
on a day of crazy rise, short bets of bitcoin were completely exploded. According to the real-time statistics of bitcoin home.com, in the last 48 hours, the fund of all kinds of cryptocurrencies in the whole network has burst to US $700 million (RMB 4.6 billion), of which the fund of bitcoin has burst to US $587 million, and the number of people in the whole network has exceeded 60000 in the last 48 hours
According to the historical data, the short position burst on the 27th was up 136% compared with the previous trading daybitcoin is a consensus network, contributing to a new payment system and a fully digital currency. It is the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network, which is controlled by its users without a central management organization or middleman. From the user's point of view, bitcoin is much like Internet cash. Bitcoin can also be regarded as the most outstanding three style bookkeeping system.