Looking at Bitcoin, where is the future of the blockchain?

Edit|Linda 2018, when you are upset by the recent turmoil in the "coin circle", we should see that the value of blockchain technology will not change. In addition to the competition among the giants of various countries, relevant policies will be introduced to promote the popularization of blockchain technology. At the recent Davos meeting in the winter, the China Blockchain Application Research Center released a report showing that China's blockchain patent and blockchain financing growth rate far exceeds that of the United States and leads the world. At the same time, data services, finance and certification are the areas where blockchain applications are the most common.

Today, Xiaobian compiled the words of the giant companies in the recent past, and how they plan the future of the blockchain after they leave Bitcoin.

1. Ma Yun said at the Winter Davos meeting: Everything that young people like is the future.

Ma Yun said: "China e-commerce did not have good logistics, payment systems, and blockchain technology 15 years ago, and the scale of sales reached 750 billion US dollars last year, showing the future development potential of technology. E-commerce is good for developing countries, small businesses and young people. What young people like to do is the future." This sentence is very scary. The so-called "there is no group of happy technology," has reached 750 billion US dollars. The scale, the meaning of the words is very clear, after the existence of blockchain technology, the future development of China's e-commerce will be another order of magnitude.

2. Liu Qiangdong: Blockchain technology lets you know which farm the egg comes from

Liu Qiangdong said in an article published in The Wall Street Journal: "We have recently reached a partnership with IBM and Wal-Mart on blockchain technology to help consumers clearly understand where the products they buy come from, including the most people. Concerned about the foods that are most worried about. In the early days of our business, we only need to know where the eggs are supplied. With blockchain technology, we can not only know who the suppliers are, but also which farms the eggs come from, even Know which chicken is under the egg."

3. Ma Huateng: Does the public blockchain consume a lot of computing power and has an equivalent endorsement?

Today, Ma Huateng commented on Professor Zhang Shouyi's article on blockchain in a circle of friends. He said that “At present, many public blockchains consume a lot of energy computing power to produce virtual digital coins. Is there an equivalent endorsement? If according to life theory, there should be many life systems. Constantly evolved and eliminated."

 4. Wu Xiaobo: Who is the opportunity for the blockchain?

Wu Xiaobo published an article in his WeChat public account: In my opinion, some new technologies that have been heated up in the past few years have entered a period of disillusionment, such as VR and AR, and several updated concepts are entering expectations. At the peak, they are artificial intelligence, blockchain, driverless and human eternal life. At the peak of the expected value, there will be a scene that everyone talks about, the bubble is huge, the scammers are rampant, and there is no time to cash. In the history of human science and technology, progress is an eternal theme, always accompanied by arrogant imagination and incomparable radical adventure. The deeper and revolutionary technological change, the longer its implementation cycle, the greater the risk and bubble during the period. He pointed out that in the past history, the risk-bearers of the technological revolution and the ultimate beneficiaries have always belonged to a small number of geniuses, professional companies and institutional capital. And believe that this law will not change.

5. Professor Zhang Shouqi: Blockchain technology is the new turning point of the Internet world

Professor Zhang Shouyi said that he was very concerned when the blockchain appeared four years ago. He believes that blockchain technology is part of the general trend of “long-term and long-term must be divided”. He said that our beliefs are built on a mathematical algorithm and we believe in mathematics. The replacement of the centralized platform will be the blockchain. In the blockchain, people use the open source voting model to define the rules of the game in the community with transparent algorithms. "This will lead to a new Internet revolution, and an era of long-term success will come again."

6. Xu famous angel investor Xu Xiaoping internal call: blockchain revolution has arrived, this is a great technological revolution

According to Xu Xiaoping’s screenshots in the investment group, he said: “The blockchain revolution has arrived. This is a great technological revolution in which the people are steadily and rebellious. To embrace the blockchain technology, do not The squid should not look at the fire from the other side, and rush to the industry, and quickly study and act quickly.” Then he used a bitcoin as a reward to find the leaker, which pushed up the heat of things.

7. Former Bank of China Vice President Wang Yongli said: Building a blockchain system must be able to solve real-world real problems, and it is truly valuable and vital.

In Wang Yongli's view, the blockchain still belongs to a new integrated technology. Apart from the application of “coin circle” such as Bitcoin, it is still mainly in the laboratory or trial stage. The technology itself is not mature enough and perfect, and it is still evolving and In the process of improvement. The application of "coin circle" such as Bitcoin is more to use a blockchain to completely virtualize a platform scenario, and to run a native (chain) asset (such as Bitcoin) to form a closed blockchain operation system.

8. Lu Yifan, the person in charge of the Pingtong Tongtong blockchain, said: There is no technical bottleneck in the blockchain field.

The American technology giant told us that the core of the blockchain is two-tier technology, one is distributed database technology; the other is cryptography. The former performs cross-center synchronization on transaction data; the latter mainly involves privacy and zero-knowledge algorithms, and the zero-knowledge algorithm can authenticate and encrypt information without decryption. Both of these issues have been resolved. The aforementioned high-efficiency operation, large throughput (throughput, transaction volume per second), and privacy protection (cryptography) have no technical problems.

9. Ant Financial Service Jiang Guofei: Blockchain is more important than artificial intelligence!

Jiang Guofei believes that blockchain technology is a lower-level technological change. Its greatest logical confidence is to enable mutual trust. It is precisely because this is a process that requires multiple parties to participate in, and the landing of its technology is slow. And precisely because it is multi-participating, its impact is far-reaching. Compared with the previous AI technology, Jiang Guofei believes that the blockchain has a wider impact, is more fair and open, and both large and small companies can find their own location and opportunities.

10. Kodak CEO Jeff Clarke said: Using blockchains to create ownership digital books for photographers.

Jeff Clarke said: "For many people in the technology industry, 'blockchain' and 'cryptocurrency' are popular buzzwords, but for those photographers who have long struggled to control their work and how it is used, The buzzword is the key to solving a problem that feels unsolvable."

11. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced: to use blockchain technology to transform Facebook

Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed such a message in his 2018 challenge. He is interested in studying encryption technology and cryptocurrency in depth and how to apply it to our services. This is undoubtedly a signal from Facebook to send you to enter the blockchain. He also mentioned these words: "blockchain-based Facebook", "introducing digital currency into the social network structure", "enabling users to price screen displays, pricing data usage, paying advertising fees directly to users", "passing Smart contracts enable forwarding to achieve multi-level revenue sharing, "price pricing, and copyright financing through smart contracts"...

12. Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and director of AI applications at DeepMind, said: The big trend is that people are looking for a variety of secure, verifiable ways to share data to ensure the authenticity of the information.

After the establishment of Google DeepMind, it became an important event in the AI field. Its core task is to realize the integration of the system with the healthcare industry. Recently, DeepMind announced that it will add blockchain technical support based on the original technology. Remove obstacles to the practical application of the system. The DeepMind recruitment page reads: “This position is responsible for developing innovative solutions, including technologies, functions, static analysis and formal analysis. Using blockchain technology to add security and transparency to the DeepMind infrastructure, starting with medical care, More apps will be covered later."

13. Amazon AWS CEO Andy Jessie said in an interview: Users should not expect the company to launch blockchain-based services in a short period of time.

In an interview with reporters, Jesse revealed that AWS did spend a lot of time observing the blockchain, but he believes that users should not expect the company to launch blockchain-based services in a short period of time. "In addition to being used as a distributed ledger, we have not seen many practical applications of blockchain. We will not build this technology because we think that a certain technology is cool, only when we see it can solve it. When we have a customer problem and can build the best solution to the problem, we will build it."

14. Microsoft China CTO Li Jiang: Do not label the blockchain

Most people who really understand the blockchain are the ones who first come into contact with the blockchain and realize its value. They dare to use blockchain technology to explore the application scenarios. Regardless of the application scenarios of these pioneers, at least they know the blockchain technology earlier and deeper than most people. These big coffee companies, there are people scattered in the traditional industry, there are also Internet companies and People in the tech giants have resources and technical strength. We can see that organizations such as Morgan Stanley and Citibank and the big coffee inside are also involved in the exploration and application of new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence, and are pushing the industry with their investment methods. The companies behind many famous foreign artificial intelligence, FinTech and blockchain technology applications are often the famous institutions and leaders.

15. Ken Moore, head of Citigroup Innovation Labs, said: Citibank has been talking to government and regulators about the blockchain distributed ledger technology, explaining to them the potential of this technology, or by each government. Create your own digital currency.

In the past few years, Citi has been observing blockchain technology and has created a “one bitcoin equivalent” technology project in its own lab, and also digs its own token “Citico”. He said: "We are running three separate systems inside the bank, which is actually equivalent to the blockchain distributed general ledger technology. However, these systems are only in the testing phase and are not really used to manage funds." Regarding Citibank's exploration of how to use blockchain technology to achieve cross-border payments, Moore said: "Because we are a global network, a global bank, we should explore how to use this technology to achieve funding. Circulation between countries and circulation in our banking network."

16. Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfee: Time will eventually tell you whether Bitcoin is a great revolution or just a failed test.

Blankfein believes that just as the replacement of gold from banknotes in the past is a long and arduous process of several worlds, it is normal for everyone to worry and hesitate about Bitcoin. And what everyone needs is patience. Time will eventually tell you whether bitcoin is a great revolution or just a failed experiment.

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In the face of the blockchain dancers who danced on the wind, some people gave such support voice: "When any kind of disruptive technology rises, it must be accompanied by a bubble. There is no doubt that there is a bubble in digital currency, but this just shows that this industry has a chance. When the bubble bursts, this chicken feather will become the infrastructure of the next era."

Cautious people also have their own views: blockchain, as a tool for decentralized collaboration, has a subversive significance for the transformation of production relations, but at present, there are many technical limitations that still need to be observed. Some traditional enterprises use blockchain technology to "return the corpse to the soul", and it is not advisable to carry out concept hype.

Finally, Xiaobian wants to say: technology is pure, value is neutral, and the destination of technology is human use, so it is human nature to determine the direction and ending of technology. How the blockchain will develop in the future depends on the values and civilization of the controller.