Internet technology has led the transformation of every industry in the world. At present, the Internet has had a profound impact on people's communications, commerce, finance and other aspects. People can buy clothes without going to the mall, and online shopping has become the norm. There is no need to transmit information face to face, and a phone call can handle it all. Even the meals that are necessary for life do not need to be cooked by yourself or bought outside. With the catering APP, delicious food can be delivered directly to your home with just a click.
The progress of Internet technology has indeed brought more and more convenience to human society, but at the same time, there are also many disadvantages. For example, WeChat, which is well known to everyone, is a chat tool that can also be used for payment. You only need to bind a bank card. Now many people have some habits in their lives, putting the red envelopes or transfers they receive in the change instead of withdrawing them to the bank card. So is it really safe to put them here? What if the account is blocked one day? WeChat goes bankrupt? Or the funds are lost? And a series of problems arise.
In fact, from a technical perspective, the Internet has spawned some powerful Internet companies, whose technology and business monopoly have led to them becoming the third party between banks and individuals. As this third party is closer to users, it gradually grows stronger and eventually begins to influence banks and users, and the mutual trust between banks and users is dominated by the credit of the third party.
Under normal circumstances, there is no problem with this third-party platform, but as mentioned earlier, the third party is a private institution and there is a risk of bankruptcy and theft. Once the company goes bankrupt, the user's funds in the hands of the third party will naturally become dangerous. The fundamental way to solve this problem is to establish a distributed transaction structure and implement peer-to-peer transactions. At this time, not only the third-party platform becomes unnecessary, but even the bank becomes a third party for transactions between people. Therefore, peer-to-peer transactions are actually the ultimate goal of blockchain, and decentralization is the basic form of blockchain.
Therefore, the Internet era with centralized third parties is about to go away, and the blockchain era is about to come. Judging from the fact that the revenue rate of Internet companies has been declining year by year in recent years, Internet wealth has reached a bottleneck, while blockchain wealth has just begun. Blockchain will become another important channel for wealth redistribution. However, what exactly is blockchain? Simply put, blockchain is a new application model of computer technologies such as distributed data storage, point-to-point transmission, consensus mechanism, and encryption algorithm. It can solve the problems of distrust and centralization generated by the Internet in transactions. At the same time, the digital currency derived from the underlying technology of blockchain provides new possibilities for currency reform.
For example, Bitcoin, as the first truly encrypted digital currency, is essentially just a hash value calculated according to a fixed algorithm, but its value has been undergoing earth-shaking changes. The development of digital currency has been nearly 10 years, and its value has increased millions of times. So I have a question for everyone, can you hold Bitcoin for 10 or 20 years? Is there anyone who can? There will definitely be some, but only a few people, just as there are always only a few people who can climb to the top of the pyramid in this world.
Some people do not have the basic knowledge of blockchain and cannot understand the prospective and broad future of blockchain and digital currency. You cannot even keep it for a day, let alone 10 years. Just like the Huanghuali furniture that was smashed decades ago, the people who collected it at that time became rich people and collectors in the end, but who could have this basic knowledge at that time?
This is why others can get rich quickly, but you can’t, because you don’t have the knowledge, you don’t understand, you don’t know, so you panic, you are afraid of being cut by the banker. But it is not a terrible thing to lose money in any forward-looking industry. What is terrible is that you lose money but don’t know why you lose money, and you only blame the problem on external reasons?
Digital currency, such as Bitcoin itself, if you don’t understand its technology and principles, you can’t see how far it can go in the future and how much value it can attract. So the editor here wants to warn everyone to learn more about digital currency and master the complementarity of the Internet and blockchain technology. Only by seeing the future direction can we control the future direction!
