The relationship between network behavior and blockchain technology

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The following content comes from the sharing of Yang Bin, deputy director of the Network Behavior Research Institute of Tsinghua University, at the "Trusted Basic Chain Platform Launch Conference" held at the China Technology Exchange in Beijing on December 25, 2019.

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The Internet Research Institute of Tsinghua University was jointly initiated and established by several national ministries and commissions, the School of Information and the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University in 2005. Its main research direction is in the fields of social governance, network governance, etc. Comprehensive solution. It can be said that the Network Research Institute exists in the form of a national think tank.

So, what is the relationship between network behavior and blockchain technology?

First, let's look at network behavior. On the one hand, society forms various levels of management structures based on people, and social development cannot be separated from people's participation. On the other hand, people have social attributes, and everyone needs to communicate with social organizations such as governments and enterprises in terms of information, materials, and funds.

With the development of technology and applications, the Internet has been deeply integrated with our offline work and life, and has gradually become an important part of our lives. All kinds of social actors—including people and various organizations—became digitalized in their behavior after the access to the Internet, with an analyzable basis. In other words, network behavior is a new behavior pattern formed after various behaviors are combined with the Internet, such as e-commerce, e-government, network security, etc.

In the process of national governance, social governance, and network governance, solutions provided by the integration of technology, law, and management are inseparable. Traditional social governance is realized offline under the supervision and management of traditional laws and regulations. After the Internet and real life combine to form a new social model, it is easy to form some communities through the network linking people and organizations. In various communities Various relationships will be formed between them, which form a complex network community environment. At this time, traditional systems, laws, and management rules are not applicable, but they have no way to manage complex online communities, which creates a gap in credit and lack of management, which leads to the emergence of some social problems .

Therefore, we need a new rule. Under the new management system, we need to realize a kind of innovative social governance and organizational management required by the government based on the actual needs of the government, business organizations, and individuals, to realize the integrity system required for enterprise development, and to realize personal life and work services.

Unlike the real world, transactions on the Internet generally require third-party organizations to provide services to complete the transaction, which is essentially a credit-based transaction. Regarding blockchain technology, many people believe that it can be used to issue digital currency.

Here I give you a brief introduction to its correct definition. Blockchain is a data structure that connects digital blocks in a chronological chain, and uses cryptography to ensure a non-tamperable and non-forgeable distributed ledger. It is initiated by a single node, broadcasts throughout the network, and the participants jointly book accounts, which can establish trust and collaboration mechanisms at low cost in an untrusted environment.

Blockchain technology can help the network society to form a mechanism of multi-point collaboration and trusted autonomy, and build an innovative social governance mechanism in the Internet age, which can be applied to various aspects of social management such as volunteer management, grassroots trade union management, party building, and production. level. In the field of government affairs management, blockchain technology can solve the collection, storage, analysis, sharing, and application of data, and help realize the connection between communities and residents, such as the consumption behavior of residents and the service behavior of social institutions. Credit evaluation has strong practical value.

At the same time, I believe that standards and norms are the prerequisites for the healthy development of blockchain technology. The Internet is not a place outside the law. It must serve social needs and national needs. Its development is inseparable from the feasibility standards of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, IEEE and other departments. .

Now the blockchain industry is still in the stage of competing for the throne, and the blockchain needs an overall mechanism planning. We hope that through analysis and research, we can provide some decision-making basis for the country's overall mechanism planning. These plans include how to do it, including multi-chain mixed application mechanism, multi-source data mixing mechanism, network security protection mechanism, credible data collection, transmission, storage, application working mechanism, and negotiable benefit distribution mechanism wait.

In addition, the driving force for the rapid development of the blockchain comes from innovative technical research, which requires many units to work together. Therefore, we hope to unite Peking University, Tsinghua University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and other research units to carry out innovative technological research.

Finally, I think that the blockchain is still an application technology in the final analysis, and the blockchain cannot be discussed in isolation from the actual application scenario. For blockchain technology, we can't just talk about the concept, but must finally implement it in the application. In this regard, we have conducted a series of explorations in the application of digital finance, the Internet, intelligent manufacturing, and supply chain finance. At present, we have achieved results in the fields of Fujian Seafood Trading Platform and Zhejiang Valve Global Trading Platform. Among them, Zhejiang Valve Global Trading Platform has a transaction volume of more than 50 billion a year. All in all, I hope that the strengths of industry, academia, and research can be gathered together, and resources from all aspects will take the lead in building an international standard system for blockchain technology applications, and jointly make this industry bigger.