Who is Nakamoto?
The price of each bitcoin has soared from 0.5 cents to $1,500.
Text|Reporter Zhang Yantao
The true body of the father of Bitcoin has once again failed to prove itself, but the road to whitewashing Bitcoin itself is receiving multi-country response. The one left by Wright - everyone is Nakamoto, representing the times.
In the current currency over-the-counter, the decentralized currency issuance system has received more and more support from fans. It is no longer important for Satoshi Nakamoto. The self-examination of the financial system is the most valuable asset that Bitcoin brings to the moment.
Bitcoin wash white
Nakamoto's name has been a mystery since the beginning of Bitcoin. Who is he?
In the past 9 years, there were no fewer than 15 people suspected of being Nakamoto. Until May 2016, the most recognized Nakamoto Satoshi chose to confess to the world. Australian entrepreneur Craig Steven Wright announced through the media that he is the founder of Bitcoin, Nakamoto.
In order to prove his identity, Wright publicly displayed the bitcoin belonging to Nakamoto. In addition, Wright also showed a transaction that took place in January 2009, and Satoshi Nakamoto transferred 10 bitcoins to programmers who helped build the Bitcoin protocol, the first bitcoin transaction ever.
Wright was born in Brisbane, Australia. He is 47 years old and lives in Sydney. In 2015, he introduced himself at a Bitcoin Investor Conference, saying that he was a scholar, engaged in business research, and holds a doctorate in law and a master's degree in statistics. He is an expert in data security. From the perspective of technical capabilities, Wright basically has everything needed to become "Zhongben Cong". Because one of his public identities is a part-time lecturer from Charles Sturt University in Sydney, and even a TV show on the CCTV Overseas News Channel.
At the same time, Wright has several companies, a company called Hotwire, which was founded in 2013 with a value of $2.3 million in bitcoin, accounting for about 1.5% of all bitcoins on the market at the time.
In addition, he also has a supercomputer called "Tulip", which ranks 15th in the Supercomputer 500. It is also hard to imagine that it is used as a mining equipment.
But shortly after Wright’s self-certification, Wikipedia raised doubts. The most critical proof is the address of Bitcoin's first transaction in Bitcoin to 2009. The address is considered to be owned by Nakamoto, and the performance is required to be repatriated. The BBC reporter will import 0.017 bitcoins, but ultimately No remittance. After Wright announced that he would give up and prove that he is Nakamoto.
Although Mr. Nakamoto has once again become a headless case. But the status of Bitcoin is gradually being accepted by the financial system.
For example, the Florida State Government intends to define Bitcoin as a financial instrument; Coinsource, the world's largest Bitcoin ATM network, completed the installation of 14 Bitcoin ATMs in New York, totaling more than 100. In addition, the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation announced plans to legalize the blockchain in 2019. After Japan’s support for the Bitcoin Payment Act came into effect, 18 companies have applied for a license to establish an exchange.
Lying in the gun
However, bitcoin, which seems to have a good prospect, has unexpectedly suffered a "robbery" recently.
WannaCry was a big hit in May. It has swept the computers used by many countries and individuals in the world.
More than 150 countries including the United States, Russia, Europe and China have been quickly recruited. Many of China's intranets, large-scale intranets and government agencies have been infected. After the computer is infected, it is necessary to pay a high ransom to the hacker to unlock the files on the computer.
Interestingly, paying a ransom can only use a virtual currency called Bitcoin. As a result, WannaCry was translated into Bitcoin ransomware in China.
This absurd farce outlines a tortuous plot. Hundreds of thousands of computer downtimes, anti-virus software companies have taken the opportunity to market, and cyber security stocks are crazy. However, hackers who design viruses only earn less than 20 bitcoins. Bitcoin fell due to the only payment method designated as ransom. . Faced with this result, Bitcoin can be described as innocent.
Why is the fire of a computer virus causing a lot of damage to the market value of Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is different from most currencies. Bitcoin does not rely on a specific currency institution. It is generated by a large number of calculations according to a specific algorithm. The Bitcoin economy uses a distributed database of nodes in the entire P2P network to confirm and record all transactions. Behave and use cryptography to ensure the security of all aspects of currency circulation.
The decentralization of P2P and the algorithm itself ensure that the currency cannot be manipulated by mass-produced bitcoins. Cryptographic based design allows Bitcoin to be transferred or paid only by the actual owner. This also ensures the anonymity of currency ownership and circulation transactions.
The biggest difference between Bitcoin and other virtual currencies is that their total quantity is very limited and extremely scarce. The currency system has only been no more than 10.5 million in four years, and the total number will be permanently limited to 21 million.
In the final analysis, decentralization, concealment, convenience, and scarcity constitute the characteristics of Bitcoin. It is naturally the best choice for these criminals to use such a virtual currency that is not monitored by the regulatory system, has convenient payment transactions, and has a strong margin of appreciation and appreciation.
Therefore, in a sense, WannaCry is not considered awkward with the bitcoin ransomware.
Against the central bank
Nakamoto's paper was published in 2008, when the global financial crisis broke out. The ability of governments and banks to manage the economy has been questioned as never before, and credit bankruptcy is not uncommon.
Since 2008, the Fed has launched a large-scale and continuous “quantitative easing†policy, which is essentially a large number of US dollar bills to stimulate the economy and push up the price of gold.
Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate in economics and the late economist, once envisioned replacing the central bank with an automated system to increase the money supply at a steady rate and eliminate inflation. He even proposed to abolish the Fed.
The idea of ​​an economist can almost be equated with the original intention of Bitcoin design. A decentralized currency.
In the world view of Bitcoin, politics and economy are not objective factors. It is precisely because of political and economic considerations that the circulation of money is always determined by a certain group.
According to Nakamoto's algorithm, the circulation of Bitcoin is controllable, so that the central bank that can avoid unlimited printing will eventually lead to inflation tragedy.
The Keynesian economists believe that the government should actively regulate the total amount of money and use the tightness of monetary policy to fuel or brake the economy in a timely manner. Therefore, they believe that Bitcoin's fixed total currency sacrifices controllability, and even worse, it will inevitably lead to deflation, which in turn hurts the overall economy. The views of the Austrian economists are quite the opposite. They think that the government's intervention in money is as small as possible. The deflation caused by the fixed amount of money is not a big deal, even a sign of social progress.
On January 3, 2009, Nakamoto became the first person to dig into Bitcoin – he dug 50 Bitcoins from the Creation Zone. Today, Bitcoin has produced 14 million.
The price of each bitcoin has also soared from 0.5 cents to $1,500.
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