Due to the soaring price of Bitcoin in recent years, it once rose from the issue price of $0.0025 to $38,448 today, which directly refreshed most people's understanding of "virtual currency". They think that "virtual currency" must be a "currency" with high returns and worth investing, so more and more people begin to invest in the currency circle.
However, just some time ago, CCTV exposed a "virtual currency" scam, and some people were even cheated of one million yuan after entering the game.
Then, the content of this article, Dachuan will take you in-depth understanding. What exactly is "virtual currency"? How terrible is the "virtual currency" scam?
When these target groups enter the group chat, the so-called "teachers" in the group will brainwash them through various means, making them lose their judgment and be deceived.
The most common way of brainwashing is to invite "nurses", constantly take screenshots of their income in the group, and "release water" from time to time, so that many eager students can taste the "sweetness" or give gifts to students, which will make them deeper and deeper.
The "virtual currency" scam exposed by CCTV Financial Channel is very typical. "Teachers" brainwash students in class and sell a kind of "virtual currency" with high rate of return. According to the teacher's speculation, this "virtual currency" will have a premium of at least 10 to 20 times or even 100 times.
Such a high rate of return, coupled with the previous "teacher" to taste a lot of sweetness for students, so that many students are carried away by the immediate interests.
The victim didn't react until all the funds were cheated. From beginning to end, everything they experienced was a big drama of the fraud gang.
Although the police have been involved in investigating the fraud gang, the difficulty of the whole investigation process can be imagined, and in addition to this fraud gang, the police also found other similar online platforms. In these platforms, except the platform name and teacher name, other cheating methods can be said to be completely reproduced.
It was not until the incident was exposed that some victims realized that they had been cheated and then chose to call the police for help.
Dachuan mentioned at the beginning that bitcoin, as a typical "virtual currency", has indeed made countless people see the huge "prospect" of virtual currency, but many people actually don't know what these virtual currencies are and where they come from.
Let's take bitcoin as an example. This is an encrypted digital currency without a publisher, which was born based on a large number of calculations.
At present, the only way to produce this virtual currency is to dig it out by "miners". "Miners" tried a lot of calculations through computer-specific algorithms, and finally calculated the correct hash value and won the bitcoin reward. It is reported that the total number of bitcoin designed by designers is 2 1 10,000. At the beginning, each "miner" will be rewarded with 50 bitcoins, and then halved every four years. When the segmentation can't continue at the end, the output of bitcoin will no longer increase.
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Nowadays, although Bitcoin has been fired to a "sky-high price", this kind of virtual currency is not recognized in China, such as dogecoin, Ethereum, Radar Coin and so on.
As for why China doesn't recognize this currency, you can understand it by giving a simple example. Although the United States is a world-class printing power, every dollar of currency issued by the United States will be mortgaged by issuing a dollar of national debt. It's like a businessman selling goods. For every dollar he earns, he needs to sell goods worth one dollar.
However, those currencies obtained through network algorithms are different. There is nothing behind them to mortgage. To put it bluntly, these virtual currencies have no value in reality.
Therefore, China will not recognize the value of these virtual currencies.
The emergence of "virtual currency" not only gave birth to many "virtual currency" scams exposed by CCTV, but also caused many other hazards that we need to know.
Although "virtual currency" is not recognized by China, it is undeniable that there are many people who invest in "virtual currency" in China. Many friends around Dachuan have tried to invest in "virtual coins", and the harm of investing in these "virtual coins" is obvious. None of Dachuan's friends came from the currency circle, but basically they took out investment funds and ran out of the currency circle. However, in short, the amount they invested is not very large, and there is no debt.
The reason why it is difficult for some people to get rich by investing in "virtual currency" is simple. There must be a "pusher" behind such a virtual currency. If you catch up with them to "release water", you may get some benefits, but if you catch up with them to "collect leeks", you may be doomed.
In addition, "virtual currency" can also help criminals to launder money and evade taxes.
Take bitcoin as an example. If criminals take bribes with bitcoins worth 1 10,000, these bitcoins are not real money, and the relevant investigation departments cannot investigate them. However, criminals can spend bitcoin abroad after taking bribes, which makes it easier for criminals to launder money.
Finally, Dachuan thought of such a sentence, "Those who suffer are always those who want to take advantage", and so is investing in "virtual currency".
So it is not recommended to make such an investment here. To put it bluntly, investing in "virtual currency" is purely a financial scam, and the final winner can never be ordinary people like us.
All the "sweetness" is just the bait thrown by the behind-the-scenes pusher. The net has been closed, and all people with the mentality of taking advantage can't get away with it.
Related Q&A: Is the transaction of virtual currency illegal? 1. Is the transaction of virtual currency illegal? 1. Whether the transaction of virtual currency is illegal depends on the situation: (1) Buying and selling virtual currency is generally legal; (2) However, if the parties use virtual currency to engage in illegal activities, it is illegal and will be punished. 2. Legal basis: Article 225 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) violates state regulations and commits one of the following illegal business operations, disrupting market order. If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also or solely be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times his illegal income or his property shall be confiscated: (1) dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other commodities whose business is restricted by laws and administrative regulations without permission; (2) buying and selling import and export licenses, import and export certificates of origin and other business licenses or approval documents stipulated by laws and administrative regulations; (three) without the approval of the relevant competent departments of the state, illegally engaged in securities, futures, insurance business, or illegally engaged in fund payment and settlement business; (four) other illegal business activities that seriously disrupt the market order. Second, what are the constitutive elements of the crime of illegal business operation? The constitutive requirements of the crime of illegal business operation are as follows: 1. The object of infringement is market order; 2. Subjectively, it is intentional and has the purpose of seeking illegal interests; 3. Objectively, it is the act of dealing in franchise, monopoly goods or other restricted goods and buying and selling import and export licenses without permission; 4. The subject is a general subject.