Three major events in 2020: Bitcoin halving, Ethereum 2.0, Filecoin mainnet launch

1. Blockchain application and government-enterprise cooperation

It has been almost a week since the news of high-level learning and recognition of the blockchain, and blockchain-related research and development cooperation continues to progress.

Local governments and enterprises have cooperated to explore the application fields of alliance chains or coinless blockchains.

Some well-known domestic public chain projects are also actively cooperating with local governments:

For example, the Conflux project, which bears the halo of Turing Award winner Yao Qizhi, held a special meeting of the "Tree Map (Conflux) Blockchain Research Institute" in Shanghai on October 29 in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Shanghai.

The cross-chain project IRISnet recently announced with a high profile that its core development team Boundary Intelligence has been recognized as a national high-tech enterprise. The news was released through the official website of the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.

2. The alliance chain continues to be hotly promoted, and the public chain focuses on three focuses

In the previous article, I said that this round of upsurge will continue, because the demonstration effect above will inevitably continue to ferment across the country and departments at all levels, making a large number of people in the industry begin to pay attention to the technological development and application in this field.

And with the exploration of blockchain applications in various places, a large number of technical talents in this area will inevitably be needed, and now blockchain technical talents are very scarce.

But for the public chain, I think it is not so simple. In the previous article, I said that "it must be the application in the public chain field that really has a direct impact on the price of the public chain currency", "If a project party uses some cases in the application field of the alliance chain to advocate the currency price of some public chains At this time, we investors must be very cautious."

Therefore, it is natural for the price of public chain coins to gradually cool down after this round of upsurge. At present, the most worthy of our attention in the field of public chains are three:One is that Ethereum will launch the beacon chain at the beginning of next year, the other is that Filecoin will launch the main network in March next year, and the second is the halving of BTC in May next year.

The launch of the Ethereum Beacon Chain marks the official opening of the Ethereum 2.0 curtain, which will provide a brand new platform for the development of the entire blockchain ecology, no matter in terms of performance, security and degree of decentralization, it will be the same as the current Ethereum is not the same.

In the current smart contract public chain field, it can be said that the focus and focus of technological innovation are all on Ethereum, so how the progress of the beacon chain will affect the overall progress of this field.

Filecoin is another brand-new field opened up by blockchain technology, which is completely different from Ethereum smart contracts. If the previous ICO allowed the world to witness the power of Ethereum smart contracts, then Filecoin will witness the charm of the blockchain in the storage field.

I have stated in my articles many times that in the current field of decentralized storage, I am most optimistic about Filecoin. Therefore, the development and performance of Filecoin after its mainnet launch next year will determine whether blockchain technology can create a new application field after Ethereum in the next few years.

BTC is the coin with the highest consensus among all digital currencies and is the "King of Digital Currencies". For BTC, which gradually loses its specific use value and behaves more and more like gold and silver, technical improvements are not too important.

In fact, BTC has not made much technological innovation in the past few years. Although the Lightning Network once set off a wave, it gradually cooled down afterwards, but this did not affect the attention and consensus of BTC in the slightest.

This is enough to show that consensus has replaced technology as the core of BTC value. In this case, the halving of the BTC price in May next year will become a key factor that will directly affect the currency price.

3. For investors, returning to rationality and returning to the public chain is the correct approach

For ordinary investors, what is related to our interests is the development of the public chain field.

The three focuses I mentioned above will all be resolved one by one next year. We just wait patiently and pay attention to the progress.Going back to the present, now that Bitcoin is below $10,000 and Ethereum is below $190, you can enter the market for long-term investment.