Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1536 Mining
Apple’s payment product is called Applepay, and Ali’s payment product is called Alipay. Ziweixing can completely build a financial product called Bitpay around Bitcoin.

Digital currency is the trend of the times.

Among the decentralized digital currencies, Bitcoin is undoubtedly the best and most recognized by countries all over the world.As Bitcoin becomes more and more popular, Bitcoin, a virtual digital currency, can have more and more connections with the real world. You can use Bitcoin to buy air tickets, luxury goods, cars, electronic products, and more. Employees can be paid in Bitcoin.

Except for some individual countries, most countries will increasingly recognize the legalized value of Bitcoin and gradually accept it at the social level.

Ziweixing can start with Bitcoin and make Bitpay this product.

With Ziweixing's strength, it is absolutely possible to build Bitpay into one of the most important financial products around Bitcoin transactions.Relying on the entry point of this core function, more financial functions will be developed.

However, this matter cannot be rushed.

Ziweixing International must first gain a firm foothold in the overseas market and become a powerful Internet giant before making real efforts in the field of Internet finance.

Just make a simple bitcoin trading platform first.

This thing is not difficult.

There are a lot of bitcoin trading platforms in later generations, many of which are built by small teams of just a few people, lacking in guarantees of stability and security.

This kind of trading platform, just like the stock market platform, is a clever trick to draw commissions from it.If Bitpay does not charge commissions, or if the commission ratio is extremely low, it can easily defeat other trading platforms built for commissions, and unify the entire bitcoin industry.

Zhou Buqi has a good understanding of the domestic Internet financial environment, but not so much about foreign countries. The one he knows best is probably Bitcoin.

If Bitpay can become the stronghold of Bitcoin, with the super concept of Bitcoin, this product is enough to gain a firm foothold in the Internet financial world!
Even if it can't compare to the giant PayPal, it is at least the second in the world except the domestic market.

No way, Alipay is too powerful.

PayPal is sitting on the global market, with a market value of more than 2000 billion US dollars.

Alipay only has a domestic market, but once it is approved for listing, its market value will easily exceed 3000 billion US dollars, and it will crush a large number of state-owned financial giants such as ICBC, CCB, Life Insurance, Ping An, and CITIC Securities, and become the largest financial company in China.As for Alipay's business, it only provides a little technical innovation service on the leftovers of the financial territory controlled by state-owned enterprises, and it can easily become the number one in China and the world. It shows how big the market of Internet finance is.

It's a pity that Zhou Buqi doesn't know much about this industry, so he can only start.When the situation becomes clearer, find a knowledgeable executive to manage the situation.

In the following week, Zhou Buqi stayed in Silicon Valley, first looking for workers, and in the home of the "Gentleman's Manor" in Silicon Valley, he specially cleaned up a very cool room on the basement floor, which was well protected against fire, water and explosion.

Then, it is to spend money to buy a computer with powerful computing power.

Zhou Buqi called Mr. Yang of Lenovo for consultation, and said with a smile: "Do you have a machine? If not, I will go to IBM to customize it!"

Lenovo's U.S. headquarters is actually the ThinkPad headquarters. Yang Yuanqing was very surprised, "How many units do you want? It must be customized in large quantities. If the requirements are not high and the quantity is not large, it is still possible to make up a batch."

Before that, Xu Liangjie had already told Zhou Buqi.

It's just a mining machine, the requirements don't have to be so high!
The main thing is stability, it cannot be like a personal computer, and it will crash after running for a long time.Lenovo brand computers are not very good, but the stability and fluency of the ThinkPad brand are guaranteed.

So Zhou Buqi didn't need any extra requirements, just mentioned a few words casually.

With the scale of a large factory like Lenovo, there must be some spare experimental computers with strong performance. Ten or eight of them are enough, and the budget is 50 US dollars.

Mr. Yang also joked, saying how about customizing a supercomputer for your boss Zhou!
Zhou Buqi said that there is no need to be so wasteful, and the investment of tens of millions of dollars is not worth it. It is enough to build a batch of computers with stable performance and powerful computing power.

A week later, it was delivered to your door.

A total of 10 computers.

Only 2 are new, 6 are eliminated from the high-performance business at the ThinkPad headquarters, and 2 are temporarily assembled from old models... Anyway, the configuration, model and style of each machine are different. They are different, and they look different.

All given away for free.

Zhou Buqi didn't spend a penny, and was happy, so he asked Xu Liangjie to help organize the manpower and deploy these computers in the underground computer room.

Start work, start!

Mining!

It’s only 2009, and the entire set of Bitcoin businesses is still immature, and there isn’t even an official mining software.

You can only write codes according to the officially published complex algorithms, make your own software, and then mine.

Ordinary people can't do this kind of work at all.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi had too many talented people. When he assigned tasks to Xu Liangjie that day, Xu Liangjie spent half an hour writing a small mining program by himself that day.

Then it took a few days to perfect the small mining program, and it can be started after installing it on these 10 computers.

After deployment, stay for a while to see the effect.

It stands to reason that Zhou Buqi should invite these people to have a look at the house.But there are too many female relatives in the family, and they are all too beautiful to show them, so they can only be invited to the living room of the big meeting to chat.

This time, Zhou Buqi understood why the ancient emperor's harem did not allow outside men to enter.

It's really not that the emperor is stingy, it's really that the emperor understands righteousness and thinks of his courtiers!
There are so many concubines in the palace, all of them are as beautiful as flowers and jade. If the courtiers see this, how can they live?How do you live when you go back to your own home?
Maybe they will get divorced.

Zhou Buqi now also has the consciousness of being an emperor.

Just in the Qing Palace... Oh no, chatting with the staff in the guest room of the conference, and then sending people to the computer room to check the situation in turn.An hour later, when the operation became more stable, they took their leave and left.

The next day, after Xu Liangjie got off work, he brought someone over to check on the situation.

It was found that all 10 machines were running stably and efficiently.

This shows two things: first, the mining software produced by Xu Liangjie is very stable; second, the batch of computers provided by Lenovo are very stable.

Checked one by one, very successful!
After 28 hours of fierce fighting, 4 computers with strong performance have completely decrypted a set of data, and a set of data represents 50 bitcoins.

The progress of the remaining 6 computers has also reached 60%-90%.

In other words, the 10 computers in Zhou Buqi's home can dig out about 24 bitcoins every 400 hours!

Calculated in one year, 12 bitcoins can be dug up!
enough!

enough!
You know, the total number of bitcoins is 2100 million.

Xu Liangjie inspected it and was quite satisfied with the mining computer room. He first explained: "According to the nature of the Bitcoin algorithm, the less the number of Bitcoins mined, the easier it is to mine. The larger the stock, the harder it is to mine." .Now the Bitcoin system has just been established, so mining is relatively easy. If necessary, I suggest updating the equipment every year to ensure the efficiency of mining.”

Zhou Buqi expressed his understanding, and said with a smile: "No need, just do an experiment to verify the feasibility of bitcoin. After our bitcoin trading platform is built, just go directly to the platform to buy."

It's so cool to play coins to make money.

It's better than playing stocks.

There is a big money player in China who was originally a teacher of New Oriental. He has been buying bitcoins for a few years, and then selling them at high prices, earning more than 130 billion.

This is not the kind of bubble wealth that many scammers in the currency circle have. He really sold Bitcoin and cashed out real cash currency.

In just a few years, he became a top rich man.

After spending more than half a month, Zhou Buqi finally settled his personal investment in Bitcoin.

Then, he took Sun Guanran to the study together.

Sun Guanran saw that he was acting mysteriously, so he knew it was not a good thing, and he was reluctant, "Why, I still want to watch a movie!"

Zhou Buqi snorted, "Are you always playing? Not working anymore?"

Sun Guanran was stunned for a moment, then tilted his head to look at him, "Do you have a job?"

When she was in China, she had a lot of work, and there were a lot of calls and work to be arranged.Coming to the United States is like a vacation. Boss Zhou is very free, and the secretary is even more free.

Zhou Buqi coughed lightly, and asked, "I remember we said before that the secretariat needs to recruit another secretary who understands computers."

Sun Guanran looked at him suspiciously, "You, the great emperor, wants to draft again? Hey, I said you are too horny, right? Why didn't I see it when I was in school?"

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, it's about work!"

Sun Guanran shook his head and said, "Don't use my pirated novel website as an excuse. My website is now on Ziweiyun, and I can find someone to help me online at any time. I don't need a full-time secretary to help me."

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm talking about Bitcoin!"

"what?"

"In the computer room on the basement floor, there are 10 computers running mining every day. If any of them fails, she can deal with it at any time. If something small happens, just call Xu Liangjie over, right? "

"oh, I see……"

Sun Guanran nodded slightly, feeling that this reason was very powerful.

Zhou Buqi said seriously: "This matter is quite important. I feel that the workload of the secretaries is a bit heavy. As a boss, I can't squeeze the employees too much. Let's hire another secretary to help you share it!"

Sun Guanran was speechless in a daze.

　The timing of the scheduled release was set wrong again, but fortunately, it was discovered in time. . . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)