Thousands of listed companies “announced” behind the blockchain business.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Prisma” (ID: lengjing_qqfinance) , author Li Yang.
Just as many people want to give up the blockchain, the industry is making a big turn.
On October 24th, the senior management focused on blockchain technology and affirmed the huge role of blockchain in economic and social development.
A wave of people learning the blockchain is on the rise, the media began to re-discuss the technology, listed companies have announced their blockchain business, and once the quiet currency practitioners have become active, no one wants to be This air button that presses the fast forward button is behind you.
This reminds many people of the scene two years ago.
The “blockchain” at that time was extremely hot, but it was also synonymous with “scams.” Speculators and MLMs entered the market, which caused great controversy in the industry. Some of the amnesties that have proven themselves in the Internet industry were once feared to be provoked by the blockchain industry.
“Nature” magazine once ridiculed: “The blockchain is a great ideological and technological revolution. There are two kinds of ‘blockchains’ in the world, one in the minds of technical geniuses and the other in Chinese netizens in the WeChat group.”
In fact, this is two completely different craze. The heat two years ago was the heat of the speculative coin; this time the heat was technical. The world’s more than 2,000 digital currencies have not soared so much. On the contrary, people are paying more attention to the technology itself, and what is the blockchain.
After experiencing the test of ice and fire, how far is blockchain technology from large-scale applications?
From Libra to the central bank digital currency
Undoubtedly, the blockchain has ushered in the best of times. Technically, today’s most compelling blockchain projects are Facebook’s Libra and the central bank’s digital currency.
On June 18, 2019, Facebook launched Libra’s official website and released a white paper.
According to the white paper, Libra’s mission is to create a simple, borderless digital currency and a financial infrastructure for hundreds of millions of people. Facebook has 2.7 billion users worldwide, and these users can use Libra to transfer and pay in the future.
According to the idea of Facebook founder Zuckerberg, through Libr