Block Chain Accelerated Landing Talent Scarcity To Become The Biggest Challenge

Recently, Zhu Jiang's friends and family called and told him that he knew what he was doing. The change of family and friends is due to the hotness of the block chain.

At the beginning of 2016, Zhu Jiang, who worked for IBM at that time, began to concentrate on the research of block chain. In 2018, Zhu Jiang joined Jin Shanyun as the leader of the block chain. He told the twenty-first Century economic news reporter that in the past, the noise in the block chain area was too loud, which made many people who really did the block chain technology drowned in it.

When talking about block chains, bitcoin is not allowed. In the eyes of many people, bitcoin is equivalent to block chain, and then all kinds of currency and speculation behavior and excessive publicity have labeled the block chain "currency circle", so that many companies and individuals who really study block chain technology are afraid to make a statement, for fear that they will be associated with "currency".

This time from the central level, we should pay attention to the block chain, and let the block chain take the form of the frontier technology, whirlwind like scraping into the public's life. This allows Zhu Jiang, a block chaining technology researcher, to usher in the spring of the industry.

Recently, in addition to Zhu Jiang, the twenty-first Century economic report reporter interviewed Tencent cloud block chain leader Bing Shao and Tencent cloud block chain chief architect Ao Meng, they briefed reporters about the progress of the block chain technology in the industry application, and what difficulties exist in the future development.

In fact, Zhu Jiang, Bing Shao and AO Meng have many similarities in their personal history. They began to study the block chain around 2015. At that time, Zhu Jiang and Bing Shao both worked in IBM, while Ao Meng worked in the China information and Communication Research Institute. Then in 2018, three people chose to go to the cloud service platform to continue to work in the block chain.

Bing Shao told reporters that he thought the block chain would play the role of infrastructure in the future, which would be as important as cloud computing and big data. Now, cloud computing has become the foundation of the digital economy, but there is still a problem for enterprises on the cloud, that is, how to cooperate between enterprises, which will be a problem that can be solved by block chain technology.

Alliance chain is the key to landing technology.

The block chain white paper (2019), released recently by the China Communications and Communications Institute, defines the block chain as follows: block chain (Blockchain) is a bookkeeping technique, which is maintained by many parties, uses cryptography to ensure transmission and access security, enables data consistency to store, tamper with, and prevent repudiation. It is also called Distributed Ledger Technology.

Bing Shao said that the block chain has four main characteristics: first, the distributed consensus, which increases the reliability of the system; two is the block chain structure, which ensures the integrity of the data; three, the intelligent contract ensures the correct implementation of the value; four, the cryptography technology ensures the privacy of the transaction.

According to type, block chain can be divided into public chain, alliance chain and private chain. These three have obvious differences in access mode, chain assets, consensus mode, incentive mode, transaction speed, transaction cost and business value.

Zhu Jiang told reporters that the development of the block chain has two important points, namely, 2009 and 2016. Among them, 2009 was the issuance of the bitcoin white paper, which allowed the outside world to further understand the block chain. In 2016, it was the rise of the alliance chain technology outside the public chain, which laid an important foundation for the current block chain application.

Reporters learned that, whether Jinshan cloud or Tencent cloud, the current block chain technology services are carried out around the alliance chain. But Bing Shao and Zhu Jiangjun stressed to reporters that the alliance chain is not necessarily the future chain of the chain. It is more accurate to say that the alliance chain is a trend in the future, and the public chain is an ideal in the future.

Bing Shao said that in terms of value, the public chain is more like a platform for the circulation of digital assets, such as the bottom of the bitcoin is the public chain, but in the public chain system, because it is subject to its consensus algorithm, it is difficult to put more complex businesses on.

"The alliance chain emphasizes more on governance capability, and there can be some party members in the alliance chain, and there will be some data nodes, but the public chain only has the right to view data." Bing Shao further said, "no matter whether the alliance chain or the public chain, the block chain should carry a very important mission, that is, the value Internet. It is a good block chain only when it combines with the existing Internet of things, payment, and the real circulation of value.

BaaS platform is preferred by cloud manufacturers

For the concern of block chain technology, Tencent can be traced back to 2015 as early as possible. In 2017, Tencent cloud launched the first version of TBaaS and launched a pilot project to corporate customers.

The information obtained by Tencent from the Tencent shows that there are mainly two products in the block chain area, one is Tencent financial technology TrustSQL, which focuses on the research and development of the underlying development platform and the application of customized block chain. The other is Tencent cloud's TBaaS, which is committed to reducing the threshold for enterprises to use block chains, and the block chain service platform.

Jinshan cloud has also launched a cloud value chain covering four aspects: "cloud exchange investment and financing information management plan", "cloud integration financial convergence service platform", "cloud fusion supply chain finance synergy scheme", and KBaaS commercial block chain platform.

Zhu Jiang told reporters that Jinshan cloud's existing cloud exchange investment and financing information management scheme and cloud fusion supply chain finance synergy scheme, through the combination of the technical characteristics of the block chain, has achieved the rapid establishment of trust relationship in the ecological circular financial scenario, and thus promoted the mechanism and mode of updating and iteration.

It can be seen that the BaaS (block chain as a service) platform has become a very important product when the cloud service providers are promoting the technology of the block chain. The block chain white paper (2019) also mentioned that BaaS, as a new system delivery form, has great advantages in terms of system expansibility, ease of use, security, operation and maintenance management compared with the original deployment mode.

More importantly, BaaS combines cloud computing with block chain, adopting innovative solutions such as containers, micro services and scalable distributed cloud storage technology, and also provides a variety of different underlying chain technology options, which helps simplify block chain development, deployment and operation and maintenance, and reduces block chain application thresholds and improves application flexibility.

Tencent cloud block chain chief architect Ao Meng told reporters that BaaS is a complete cloud product, which is different from those that do the underlying block chain technology. For example, Tencent's TBaaS can be used by users and has overall security. This is also the biggest feature of BaaS.

In addition, Ao Meng also stressed that not only from a technical point of view, the BaaS platform is needed, but also needs it from a business perspective. "With the advent of the chain era, businesses may also participate in multiple chains because of business needs. At this time, cross links have become a very important basic technology. With this technology, the value of different chains can be transferred, and the BaaS platform can provide some cross links.

According to the reporter, at present, Tencent cloud TBaaS has been applied in many scenarios, including insurance direct compensation, capital settlement, electronic bills, supply chain finance, intelligent medical and other fields. Take supply chain finance as an example, Tencent cloud helps to solve a problem of identity trust, risk control and inefficiency in the process of traditional warehouse receipt pledge financing through block chain technology.

In practical operation, the solution can ensure that the business participant realizes the online multi-party agreement and signs the electronic contract through the block chain through the key and digital certificate, and then operates the information to realize the sharing of account books, so that the data can not be tampered with.

At the same time, the application of cryptography can ensure that trading information can only be shared directly among the necessary participants, effectively protecting business privacy. The electronic warehouse receipt can be circulated among different owners as a digital asset and the only credentials of exercising rights and interests.

Block chain development faces many challenges

At present, the importance of block chain is unquestionable, but there are still many challenges in the way of industrial application. Bing Shao told reporters in twenty-first Century economic report that the challenges of block chain application can be viewed from two aspects of business and technology.

In the aspect of business, when facing the application block chain, we need to face the challenges of business mode change, privacy protection and business competition, difficult chain of assets under the line, and difficult chain of capital flow. However, in terms of technology, we are faced with challenges such as the lag of technical department culture, shortage of talents in block chain, the failure of block chain performance to meet business needs, and block chain network operation and maintenance problems.

Bing Shao said that some of these challenges are easy to overcome, but others are very difficult. Among them, the talent problem is the biggest challenge facing the block chain now. "Block chain needs compound talents, because block chain is not only block chain, but more business mode innovation, so people who are familiar with business need."

The block chain white paper (2019) also points out that the block chain technology is a multidisciplinary and cross domain technology, which includes operation system, network communication, cryptography, mathematics, finance, production and so on. However, there are still deficiencies in cross disciplinary research in China.

According to the 2018 Research Report on the supply and demand of talents in the block chain, it is found that only 7% of the job seekers who possess the relevant skills and experience of the block are required.

In addition to the talent problem, the white paper on block chain (2019) also referred to the other three factors that may restrict the future development of the block chain, including the social cognitive level, the spread of public controversy and industry misgivings, the regulatory environment level, the need to enhance policy flexibility in China's regulation, and the difficulty of large-scale promotion on the technology application level.

However, as the government attaches importance to the block chain industry, the block chain industry will also develop towards a more healthy direction. In the process, the challenges may be overcome. As to whether there is competition in the block chain industry, Zhu Jiang said, "the world of block chains must be co managed and co built environment, which is still a blue ocean, and it also presents more cooperation and synergy."