Can virtual currency become money
virtual currency is a currency that can buy goods and services in a specific community in a virtual space. It has the monetary function of medium of exchange and unit of account
virtual currency can be roughly divided into three categories
the first category
has nothing to do with real currency, and can only be used in a closed virtual environment, usually online games, such as world of Warcraft
the second type of one-way exchange can only be used in a virtual environment, and sometimes physical goods and services can be purchased, such as frequent flyer award program, microsoft points, Nintendo points, Facebook credits and Amazon coin
the third type of two-way exchange, which has a buying price and a selling price, is the same as "real" currency, including those issued by issuers, such as second life Linden coin, two-way exchangeable game currency, etc., as well as decentralized cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, Leyte coin, Ethereum, etc; Virtual currency & quot; But cryptocurrency is only one of the subcategories of virtual currency.
virtual currency and electronic currency are not the same concept
the definition of e-money is to convert a certain amount of cash or deposit from the issuer and obtain data representing the same amount. By using some electronic methods, the data can be directly transferred to the payment object, so as to pay off the debt. E-money means that consumers pay traditional money to issuers of e-money, and issuers store legal money of equal value with traditional money in electronic devices held by consumers P>
electronic currency is the electronization of the legal tender, including our common bank cards, Internet banking, electronic cash, etc., as well as the third party payment developed in recent years, such as Alipay, fortune paid and so on. No matter what form these electronic currencies are and through which institutions they circulate, their original source is the legal money issued by the central bank
but virtual currency is the electronization of illegal currency, and its original issuer is not the central bank. For example, Tencent Q currency and other game currency, such virtual currency is mainly limited to circulation in a specific virtual environment. After the emergence of bitcoin, through the blockchain technology to better solve the problem of decentralization, distrust, to achieve global circulation, is sought after in the world. Electronic currency and virtual currency are collectively referred to as digital currency
there are also virtual currencies, such as Q currency. These are virtual currencies, purchased directly in cash
in short, digital currency is an electronic currency that can replace currency. At present, digital currency is not regulated, there is no endorsement of national credit, and it is not issued by central banks or authorities, but it is used by members in specific virtual communities, such as bitcoin.
digital currency needs to be & quot; Miner Mining & quot; Generated, mining is through the computer graphics card hash operation, if calculated to & quot; Blasting & quot; The system will reward a certain amount of digital currency at one time. At present, the computing power of digital currency is growing rapidly, and the miners can't find the mine through several computers. Therefore, they need to join the mine pool. The mine pool collects all the computing power of everyone, and it is estimated that they can calculate to & quot; Blasting & quot; The probability of the value is greater.
now the state has just issued regulations, and the relevant trading platforms are shutting down the relevant trading business, so the risk is very high, please be careful.
Over the past eight years since its birth on January 3, 2009, bitcoin has grown from an anonymous geek toy to a hot news topic, and its price has also increased by millions of times
bitcoin was born out of the article bitcoin: a peer-to-peer e-cash system written by Nakamoto, which confirms that bitcoin is an e-cash, that is, a new form of currency. However, over the past eight years, whether the bitcoin is a currency or not is full of controversy. Experts from all sides have different opinions, and the attitudes of governments vary greatly
Similarly, bitcoin has no use value like legal currency, and the guarantee of its credit and exchange value is the impeccable cryptography algorithm and public issuance mechanismbitcoin has been attacked by hackers for more than eight years, but it has never been broken, and its security and reliability have been fully verified. In history, hackers such as Mt. GOx steal bitcoin because of the internal mismanagement of bitcoin exchange, the lack of system security and even self-monitoring. In addition, the natural scarcity formed by the 21 million issue limit of bitcoin is comparable to or even surpasses gold and silver, so it is more trustworthy than most legal currencies< br />