The mystery of Bitcoin was as early as June 5438+October 2008 10. A man who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto put forward the concept of Bitcoin in an academic paper. After that, Bitcoin was successfully developed and applied to the global financial market. Bitcoin is a digital currency composed of a long string of computer codes, which is widely used in online virtual games.
The Mystery of Bitcoin: How many bitcoins does founder Satoshi Nakamoto have (up to one million)?
The existence of Bitcoin is an open source software designed based on its concept and a P2P network built on it. It is estimated that Ben Congzhong holds as many as 654.38 million bitcoins, worth about $3 billion. But before Satoshi Nakamoto 20 1 1 mysteriously disappeared in the bitcoin community, no one knew his existence and how many bitcoins he held. This mystery has not been solved so far, even Satoshi Nakamoto himself doesn't know where it is ~
What is Bitcoin?
Unlike most currencies, Bitcoin is not issued by a specific monetary institution. It is generated by a large number of calculations according to a specific algorithm. Bitcoin economy uses the distributed database composed of many nodes in the whole P2P network to confirm and record all transactions, and uses the design of cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation. The decentralized features and algorithms of P2P itself can ensure that the currency value is not manipulated by making a large number of bitcoins.
The design based on cryptography can make bitcoin only transferred or paid by the real owner. This also ensures the anonymity of currency ownership and circulation transactions. The biggest difference between Bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that its total amount is very limited and extremely scarce. The monetary system once did not exceed/kloc-0.05 million for four years, and then the total amount will be permanently limited to 2/kloc-0.05 million. Bitcoin can be used to cash out and can be converted into the currencies of most countries. Users can use Bitcoin to buy some virtual items, such as clothes, hats and equipment in online games. As long as someone accepts it, you can also use Bitcoin to buy real-life items.
On February 26th, 20 14, Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia sent an open letter to several regulatory departments of the US federal government, hoping that relevant institutions could pay attention to the current situation that Bitcoin encourages illegal activities and disrupts the financial order, and demanded that action be taken as soon as possible to completely ban this electronic money. From 20 10/712: 00 on October 24th, the three major bitcoin platforms in China began to charge transaction fees.
Bitcoin is widely used in virtual games.
GoodGame, a German mobile game developer, announced that it will cooperate with Bitpay, a bitcoin payment service company, and will add bitcoin payment options to its in-house mobile games in the future. Coincidentally, recently, PlayMC, a tens of thousands of server companies dedicated to the game My World, also announced that it will add Bitcoin to the game.
PlayMC said: "We will continue to add convertible content for players, which will provide children with a safe game environment and opportunities to make money." It is reported that PlayMC's service will change the main game of My World into a mini game, and players can choose cooperation or confrontation mode. Each game has different goals and methods, and the game will eventually let players get bitcoin.
With the development of world history for thousands of years, paper money, as the legal tender used by most countries, has been integrated into everyone's life. Its appearance and circulation have been verified by tens of billions of people in past dynasties, and it is recognized as a reasonable monetary policy. Previously, video games and bitcoin did not have a particularly practical intersection. However, with the bitcoin payment involved in in-game purchase, some things of these two seemingly independent individuals were cut off. So, what kind of currency is this sudden bitcoin? Will it have further influence on our game world?
What kind of currency is Bitcoin?
In fact, money is a "universal equivalent" generally recognized by the state and society. Imagine a person going to a grain and oil store to buy flour with 100 RMB. Buyers naturally like money and want to have it, but obviously, buyers can't make a pot of steamed bread with only one piece of paper. In this case, the seller is willing to exchange this 100 yuan for a bag of flour in the grain and oil store. After the transaction is successful, the buyer is happy and the seller is also very happy. As a currency with circulation ability, what it needs to do is to make everyone like it and satisfy the attribute of "scarcity". So what role does Bitcoin play in our real life?
For another small example, suppose you are an alien from Mars, and your world uses unique stones from Mars as currency; As a result, one day you are hungry and go to a grain and oil store to buy flour, trying to make a strange food that is common on Mars. Imagine what kind of eyes the owner of the grain and oil store will look at you when you take out the stones from Mars. In fact, this is the importance of "recognition" and "scarcity". Imagine what would happen if you took out a piece of gold when you went to the grain and oil store?