Xinhuanet virtual currency

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It is illegal to buy and sell digital currency in China

according to the announcement on preventing the financing risk of token issuance jointly issued by the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions, the announcement points out that any so-called token financing trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal currency and token and "virtual currency", and shall not buy or sell tokens or "virtual currency" as the central counterparties, It is not allowed to provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or "virtual currency"

the announcement points out that token issuance financing refers to the so-called "virtual currency" raised from investors through illegal sale and circulation of tokens. In essence, it is an unauthorized illegal public financing behavior, suspected of illegal sale of token tickets, illegal issuance of securities, illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal and criminal activities

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the central bank said that the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency:

the central bank's monetary Bureau issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that recently, indivial enterprises falsely use the name of the central bank, The relevant digital procts are labeled as "authorized issuance by the people's Bank of China", or the central bank's digital currency promotion team is falsely claimed, in an attempt to deceive the public and take the opportunity to make huge profits

the central bank said that the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The central bank also suggested that the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud

in fact, virtual currencies such as bitcoin and lightcoin are representatives of the so-called digital currency. The central bank said in 2016 that it was studying China's legal digital currency. Yao Qian, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the people's Bank of China, previously told the media that the prototype scheme for the central bank to issue legal digital currency has completed two rounds of revision, and is expected to be tested in relatively closed application scenarios such as the bill market in the future, but there is no clear timetable for its launch

2. Please make it clear that no matter Ethernet, Vicat, bitcoin or any other virtual currency is called differently, it is essentially a kind of virtual currency
although the potential value and development prospect of the so-called virtual currency are widely spread, it is just like the stock price in the stock market does not depend on the actual operating capacity of the company, Their value is speculated by speculators
at present, no country recognizes that these virtual currencies have the status of complete currency, which can be regarded as an equivalent between legal currency and virtual currency at most, just like you buy game currency in a game. In some cases, you can directly exchange goods with virtual currency as long as the seller accepts it, But it's not that virtual currency is equal to money.
the so-called "so and so countries accept virtual currency payment", which is popular in virtual currency, is the concept of deliberately mixing up food, giving people the illusion that virtual currency can replace legal tender or is developing in that direction. This is a common method used by speculators.
legal tender is endorsed by national credit, As an important part of national sovereignty, it is impossible to be so-called Internet-based and international, especially the speculative nature of virtual currency, which makes it not have the price as a general equivalent - no one can accept a thing whose price fluctuates more than 50% in one day as a general equivalent of daily trading
therefore, the definition of this thing by the state is very clear, This is a kind of commodity. You can speculate or speculate as long as you flow according to the rules of the commodity. If you earn or lose money, you can bear it yourself. It's no problem to regard it as similar to stocks or securities, but it's not a currency.
the source of the news that vikat is valued by Putin is actually a report in the cointegraph, This media is the famous bitcoin media and the mouthpiece of virtual currency speculators. Its credibility is very suspicious; Traditional foreign media, such as BBC, CNN, Fox and even the domestic Xinhua network, just reprinted the report, not confirmed it; In fact, it's very common for fake news like this to be reprinted at will, so as to make a joke. It's just that speculators of virtual currency are willing to see this situation, so as to add fuel to the flames and find the so-called thigh for their speculation. Therefore, to understand this, we should not blindly believe in the prospect of the so-called virtual currency and maintain a normal mentality, When dealing with virtual currency investment rationally, we must bear in mind that we should treat these things as stocks or securities. We should not gamble with the so-called mentality of making steady profits without losing money

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blockchain is a new technology, not a disguised form of MLM. It is just claimed by many MLM organizations as "blockchain". In fact, there is no technology. It's just a practice of MLM under the name of "blockchain". The state has issued several announcements to crack down on this kind of MLM. The following is the Xinhua news report on MLM of blockchain:

blockchain is not equal to virtual currency, but also has security risks. Behind the popularity, there is exaggeration with "ulterior motives". Only by removing the flashiness, can the blockchain return to its real application value

invest 80000 yuan, change to 800000 yuan after three months? Shenzhen police cracked a huge fund-raising fraud. Under the guise of blockchain concept and 10 times income, thousands of investors were deeply involved in the case, involving up to 307 million yuan. Under the "veil of mystery" of the blockchain, the illegal elements have taken advantage of their own tricks, and the blockchain has become a "signboard" of economic crimes such as fraud and pyramid selling

why is the blockchain repeatedly "misused" by illegal activities such as pyramid selling fraud? In addition to "unknown", what is the "function" of blockchain technology itself? Since the beginning of this year, with the increase of supervision and the cooling of currency speculation, new opportunities have been brought to the development of blockchain. How about the implementation of blockchain commercial "application" The reporter of outlook news weekly recently concted an investigation

when the three-month "capital release period" promised by the trading platform expired and the staff began to "kick" in the QQ group, Tang Haiyan, who lives in Bao'an District of Shenzhen City, realized that she might have been cheated

previously, Tang Haiyan invested 80000 yuan to buy a virtual currency called "ordinary silver coin" under the introction of her classmates“ The other side said that this currency is the most advanced blockchain technology at present, with Tibetan tea as collateral. He also showed me the "technical white paper". I didn't understand blockchain, so I didn't read it carefully. "

although she doesn't know about blockchain and virtual currency, the high investment income makes Tang Haiyan full of expectations. She told reporters that companies issuing "ordinary silver coins" will regularly split the virtual currency according to the ratio of 1:10, which means that each split will make the value of "ordinary silver coins" in the hands of investors expand 10 times. As long as after a split, her investment of 80000 yuan is equivalent to the purchase of 800000 yuan worth of "ordinary silver coins", which can be sold on the trading platform to obtain huge profits

according to the rules of the trading platform, the newly purchased "ordinary silver coin" cannot be traded immediately, and it must be frozen on the platform for three months before it can enter the "release period". However, after three months, not only did Tang Haiyan not wait for the assets to double, but the 80000 yuan frozen on the platform could not be used for trading

"other investors began to question the authenticity of this investment in QQ group. As a result, the staff of the company kicked these investors out one by one, which made me feel bad." She said

The fact also proves Tang HaiYan's intuition. At the end of March 2018, Shenzhen police detected a huge fund-raising fraud, with the amount of fraud funds as high as 307 million yuan. In this case, Shenzhen Puyin blockchain Group Co., Ltd. involved in the case issued virtual currency in the mode of "blockchain + Tibetan tea" to obtain public deposits. Tang Haiyan was one of the thousands of victims

Shenzhen police investigation found that the company claimed that investors could buy and sell "ordinary silver coins" on the virtual trading platform "jucoin net" to earn a price difference

. In fact, the change of its trading price is that the company used investors' investment funds for behind the scenes operation, and once raised the price of "ordinary silver coin" from 0.5 yuan to 10 yuan, so that investors can taste some sweetness. When a large number of investors entered the market, the company continued to cash out through malicious manipulation of the price trend of "ordinary silver coin", which eventually led to the worthlessness of "ordinary silver coin" in the hands of investors

since 2018, engaging in fraud and pyramid selling under the banner of blockchain has become a common "routine" in new criminal tactics. In April 2018, Jinan police dropped a pyramid selling Gang under the guise of "western development", "national poverty alleviation", "original stocks", "blockchain" and "e-commerce", arrested more than 10 major suspects, frozen more than 100 accounts involved, and seized more than 300 million yuan of funds involved

according to Jinan police, huileyi e-commerce company designed a fake virtual disk on the Internet on the ground that the country is vigorously developing the big data instry, and released a variety of virtual currencies such as "precious currency" and "precious currency"

under the guise of giving away, they presented a certain amount of virtual currency to the New MLM staff, with the price of tens of yuan each. Then, through artificial manipulation, they appreciated the virtual currency all the way to more than 100 yuan or even hundreds of yuan, attracting people who did not know the truth to join. Finally, they "cut leeks" through the periodic fluctuation of the so-called "devaluation" of virtual currency, Finally, the purpose of seeking illegal interests is achieved

in Xi'an, a few days ago, the local police successfully cracked a huge network pyramid selling case under the banner of blockchain. According to the police, the suspect, Zheng Mou, has paid a high salary to the 9 network members, such as Zhang and Lee. Since March 28, 2018, he has gathered pyramid selling and network pyramid selling as a means to sell the virtual Datang coins at the consumption era network platform at the price of 3 yuan each, and manipulate the appreciation rate; p>

at the same time, promotion meetings were held in many cities at home and abroad to attract members. According to the development of members, 28 level agents were set up. In just 18 days, the gang developed more than 13000 registered members. At present, it has been found that the case involves 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in China, and the fund involved is as high as 86 million yuan

according to Tencent's 2017 pyramid selling situation awareness white paper released by Tencent security joint laboratory, in recent years, all kinds of overseas capital disk, virtual currency and ICO (initial public offering token financing of blockchain project) projects have emerged in an endless stream, which hide many risks such as illegal issuance, untrue projects, cross-border money laundering, fraud and pyramid selling, As a result, a large number of funds flow overseas. Once the market collapses, runs away or loses contact, investors often have no way to complain and the losses are difficult to recover. For example, Baichuan coin, mark coin, beta coin, dark coin, etc

the reporter of lookout Newsweek interviewed in Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai and other places and learned that most people know that the concept of blockchain is very popular, but they "don't know where it is", and there are different opinions on the specific functions of blockchain: some people think it is used for "investment and financing", "buying and selling currency", while others think it is "a major invention of the same magnitude as the steam engine", Some entrepreneurs are even more eager to seize this "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get rich."

many people in the instry said that it is precisely because people have many misunderstandings about blockchain that criminals have opportunities to fish in troubled waters and mislead investors

First, blockchain is not equal to virtual currency. By the end of last year, the number of domestic ICO participants and the total volume of transactions have doubled, a large number of digital currency exchanges have fled overseas, and the agent investment mode has involved more ordinary people in high-risk investment

in many instries, we media and celebrities form interest alliances with issuers and digital exchanges to endorse and create public opinion for the "air currency" project. In December last year, nine departments including the people's Bank of China identified ICO as "suspected of illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid selling and other illegal and criminal activities"

in the interview, many people told our reporter that the existence of token has built a set of rights and interests mechanism for the development of blockchain technology, which is indispensable for stimulating the prosperity of blockchain applications“ The market practice in the past five years has proved that blockchain applications without equity mechanism are just like market economy without computers connected to the Internet and money, with greatly reced application scenarios and development speed. " An investor in Shanghai said

in fact, the token represented by bitcoin is only one of the earliest procts to verify the blockchain technology, and the two can not be equated, and the existence of token has obviously negative effects on the development of blockchain

Xiao Wei, chief engineer of network blockchain, told this reporter that the myth of ICO's sudden wealth shakes the R & D concentration of blockchain technical talents, and the myth of "sudden wealth" with hundreds of times of return tests the patience of blockchain technical R & D talents“ Many of the "comrades in arms" in the circle who used to do research and development of blockchain technology have gone to issue coins, and now few of them can insist on doing research and development and application of technology. "

Xu zewei, Secretary of the Party committee of Beijing Internet Finance Instry Association, said that under the background of China's ban on ICO, many domestic start-ups promoting blockchain applications are "selling dog meat with sheep's pawn" and financing through concept packaging of worthless tokens“ ICO has polluted the good atmosphere of innovation and entrepreneurship, and created a kind of speculative proct. Many young people are not thinking about entrepreneurship, but are thinking about issuing money, which makes us have the illusion of getting rich overnight. "

at present, more and more people in the instry begin to think about whether the development of blockchain must rely on the issuance of tokens to achieve incentives. Guo Dagang, Secretary General of Beijing Internet Finance Instry Association, told this reporter that the so-called incentive mechanism is only the theoretical basis for the project party to issue tokens for itself. Huo Xuewen, director of Beijing Municipal Bureau of financial work, also believes that if blockchain does not get rid of the dilemma of issuing currency, it will never find a legal landing mechanism

secondly, blockchain is not omnipotent and its security is at risk. Blockchain is generally considered to achieve three functions:

first, the data stored on the blockchain can not be tampered or forged, and the data has high credibility and credibility; Second, the whole process of the transaction can be traced, which can achieve accurate responsibility tracking; Third, the embedded smart contract in the blockchain can be executed automatically based on the contract, so as to improve work efficiency and rece the risk of default. It is generally believed that blockchain has broad application prospects in finance, logistics, trade and other fields

in fact, blockchain is not omnipotent, and its function has many limitations. It is generally believed that, according to the characteristics of cryptography, in order to tamper or falsify in the blockchain, more than 51% of the nodes need to be controlled in theory. When there are enough nodes in the blockchain, it is difficult to tamper with the trust creation mechanism widely participated by the public

However, in reality, digital currency exchanges are frequently attacked or even stolen. On June 20, 2018, bithumb exchange of South Korea announced on its official website that the exchange had been attacked by hackers and stolen 35 billion won, about 32 million US dollars of cryptocurrency

Ji Xinhua, known as the first generation of "hackers" in China, said that the blockchain will continue to face attacks, and the process of uploading data to the blockchain is prone to information leakage. Some people in the instry worry that once the super computing power of quantum computing is realized, it will also have a direct impact on the blockchain

Zhao Yao, a special researcher of the Institute of finance of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told this reporter that the academic community has confirmed as early as 2013 that the blockchain is not perfect and there are many "cheating" strategies. As long as there are enough economic incentives, controlling attacks of more than 51% nodes does not only exist in theory

Zeng Guang, Secretary General of Shenzhen Internet Finance Association, said that the blockchain technology itself does not have the ability to do so

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Vpay digital currency is MLM

Vpay digital money MLM organizations obtain wealth by developing personnel and requiring them to pay a certain fee to obtain the qualification. The essence of vpay digital money pyramid scheme is "Ponzi scheme", that is, the later's money is distributed to the former's income

vpay digital currency is a new type of MLM: it doesn't restrict personal freedom, doesn't accept ID cards and mobile phones, and doesn't take big classes collectively. Instead, it uses capital operation as a banner to pull people to cheat money, drives luxury cars, wears gold and silver, and uses money to attract relatives and friends to join, and finally achieves the point of no return

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features and precautions of MLM:

no matter how the MLM organization changes face, only three features need to be seen:

1. Whether it needs to subscribe for goods or pay fees to obtain the qualification to join

2. Whether it is necessary to develop others to become their own downline and form a hierarchical network

Whether the remuneration and bonus are calculated on the basis of the number of directly or indirectly developed personnel or sales performance, the income of participants is not from the reasonable profits from the sales of goods or services, but from the fees paid by others when they join. As long as these three characteristics are met, it is definitely MLM

methods to distinguish direct selling from pyramid selling:

at present, 71 direct selling enterprises have obtained direct selling license, and 19 collimating enterprises have applied for direct selling license. According to the regulations, direct selling procts should meet the national certification, licensing or mandatory standards: cosmetics, health food, cleaning procts, health equipment, small Kitchenware and other five categories. Financial investment, tourism and other procts are not included in the regulations

reference source: Fenghuang finance and Economics - the end of vpay pyramid scheme

reference source: Xinhuanet - guard against "digital currency trap"

5. Digital RMB, also known as digital currency electronic payment, is the legal digital currency issued by the people's Bank of China based on national credit. Based on the generalized account system, it supports the loose coupling function of bank accounts, and is equivalent to banknotes and coins

Digital RMB can be as easy to circulate as cash, which is concive to the circulation and internationalization of RMB, and can also achieve controllable anonymity< On March 3, 2021, the Ministry of Commerce issued the overall plan for comprehensively deepening the innovation and development pilot of service trade, in which it was mentioned that digital RMB pilot projects should be carried out in Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Macao and central and western regions. The people's Bank of China formulates policy guarantee measures; First, Shenzhen, Cheng, Suzhou, xiong'an new area and other relevant departments of the future Winter Olympic Games scene will assist in the promotion, and then expand to other regions as appropriate.

6. It is illegal to buy and sell digital currency in China
according to the announcement on preventing the financing risks of token issuance jointly issued by the central bank and other seven ministries and commissions, the announcement points out that any so-called token financing trading platform shall not engage in the exchange business between legal tender and token and "virtual currency", and shall not buy or sell tokens or "virtual currency" as a central counter party, It is not allowed to provide pricing, information intermediary and other services for token or "virtual currency"
the announcement points out that token issuance financing refers to the so-called "virtual currency" raised from investors through the illegal sale and circulation of tokens. In essence, it is an unauthorized illegal public financing behavior, suspected of illegal sale of token bills, illegal issuance of securities, illegal fund-raising, financial fraud, pyramid schemes and other illegal criminal activities<
extended information:
the central bank said that the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency:
the central bank's gold and silver Bureau issued a "risk warning on issuing or promoting digital currency in the name of the people's Bank of China" on its official website, saying that recently, indivial enterprises falsely used the name of the central bank and labeled relevant digital procts as "authorized issuance of the people's Bank of China", Or they falsely claim that the central bank's digital currency promotion team is trying to deceive the public and make huge profits
the central bank said that the central bank has not issued legal digital currency, nor authorized any institutions and enterprises to issue legal digital currency, and there is no promotion team. At present, the so-called "digital currency" in the market is not legal digital currency. The central bank also suggested that the so-called "digital currency" launched by some institutions and enterprises and the so-called promotion of the central bank's issuance of digital currency may involve pyramid selling and fraud
in fact, virtual currencies such as bitcoin and lightcoin are representatives of the so-called digital currency. The central bank said in 2016 that it was studying China's legal digital currency. Yao Qian, director of the digital currency Research Institute of the people's Bank of China, previously told the media that the prototype scheme for the central bank to issue legal digital currency has completed two rounds of revision, and is expected to be tested in relatively closed application scenarios such as the bill market in the future, but there is no clear timetable for its launch
reference source: Xinhuanet - has anyone issued digital currency in the name of the central bank
source of reference: China Securities Regulatory Commission - Announcement on preventing financing risks of token issuance

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Recently, a photo of Chinese aunts posing at the blockchain conference became popular in the circle of friends, and netizens commented that aunts have been targeted by blockchain. Since the beginning of this year, some illegal elements have carried out pyramid selling activities under the banner of blockchain finance, becoming one of the latest varieties of pyramid selling. Recently, Xi'an City cracked a block chain pyramid selling case

Zhang Yangqiu said that virtual currency, as a new thing, is often used to engage in illegal and criminal activities. It usually controls a small number of indivial or company accounts to absorb and transfer funds, and establishes a pyramid selling network through the Internet to expand the scale of fund-raising. It is difficult for ordinary investors to see the operation rules behind it. She reminded that various virtual currency platforms generally publicize technologies such as "blockchain" and "decentralization", and some of them are also named after international organizations and multinational financial groups, which is extremely confusing. Middle aged and old people must be cautious in investment, and it is better not to set foot in unfamiliar investment fields

content source: Xinhuanet

8. On April 26, Xinhuanet published the article "the establishment of China virtual digital currency and Internet Lottery Development Research Center", which caused a large number of media reprints. The article mentions that "the Working Committee for culture of the Chinese nation and the Association for economic and cultural development of the Chinese nation jointly initiated the establishment of the Research Center for the development of China's virtual digital currency and Internet lottery, aiming at promoting the research on the issue of digital currency and Internet lottery under the current economic new normal."
later on May 6, China Business Times published the article "the establishment of Internet Lottery Development Research Center in Beijing", which first mentioned Hainan rizheng online sports Co., Ltd., saying that it was awarded the certificate of issuing, selling, trading, settlement services, organizing and planning all kinds of chess and cards issued by the Ministry of culture, the Ministry of instry and information technology, the Ministry of public security and the Bureau of instry and Commerce in January 2016 In addition, we will also issue the virtual digital currency "Jiuzhou coin" on a pilot basis Sina CAITONG)
this is an application scenario of digital currency. Digital currency can also exist as an asset category, such as token launched by European crowdfunding platform.

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Li Bin, director of the macro Prudential administration of the people's Bank of China, disclosed on April 12 that the pilot test of digital RMB will be launched successively in Shenzhen, Suzhou, xiong'an new area, Cheng and the future Winter Olympics scenarios by the end of 2019, and six pilot test areas will be added in October 2020, including Shanghai, Hainan, Changsha, Xi'an, Qing and Dalian at present, the pilot scope of digital RMB has been expanded in an orderly way, and the application scenarios are graally enriched

the number of participants, the number of transactions and the exchange amount of digital RMB pilot test are generally small, and the use scenarios cover many fields, such as living expenses, catering services, transportation, shopping and consumption. At present, digital RMB is generally in the pilot test stage, and there is no timetable for its official launch

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status is equivalent to cash RMB

according to the official definition, digital RMB is the legal tender in digital form issued by the people's Bank of China, which is operated by the designated operating institutions and exchanged to the public. Based on the generalized account system, it supports the loose coupling function of bank accounts, and is equivalent to banknotes and coins. In other words, digital RMB can be simply equivalent to cash RMB, only in different forms, but with the same legal compensation as cash

legal compensation means that any unit or indivial can not refuse to pay all public and private debts in China with digital RMB. For the compensation, the central bank's digital money research institute director Mu Changchun has a more popular explanation in the "get" course. "We see that now the private payment agencies or platforms will set up various payment barriers. WeChat can't use Alipay anywhere, and Alipay can't use WeChat. But for the central bank's digital currency (Digital RMB), as long as you can use electronic payment, you must accept the central bank's digital currency. "

10. It needs to be verified by the bank. Before you take the bank, take a picture of RMB number and reserve it