legendary trader

Chapter 898 Chapter 899
"By the way, with regard to the installation personnel, we may have to find more outside at that time. They must be too busy." At this moment, Xiao Chen suddenly remembered the matter of manpower, but fortunately there was no delay. , said hastily.

"This is easy to solve. Just go to the technical school and recruit a group of people. You should be able to handle it with simple teaching."

Zheng Xiaopang smiled and said that the assembly of so many equipment must be a big project, and he didn't expect these few technicians to solve the problem, so he was already prepared.

"By the way, after finding the place, it's best for us to go and see it first. If it's not suitable, we have to change the place."

Xiao Chen said again.

"What are the limitations of the place? As long as it is spacious enough to accommodate these devices, and there is sufficient power guarantee and network connection, what else is needed?"

Chen Fan asked strangely.

"Put so many graphics cards in one, it is best to ventilate the room, in fact, it is a problem of cooling, these things all need to generate heat, and the heat generated by a single one is limited, but it cannot support a large number.

What's more, there are too many, and there is a bit of noise. During the day, there is nothing to do. If there are residents around at night, I am afraid that they will be complained. "

Xiao Chen hurriedly explained.

"You mean to install air-conditioning in the factory to cool down those things, and it's better to build in the suburbs, at least there are no houses around, is that what you mean?"

Chen Fan frowned and asked.

"Yes, that's how it is."

Xiao Chen nodded and said: "The heat generation and noise of a single graphics card can be completely ignored, but now that the number is required, the problem of heat dissipation and noise is very serious."

"Well, I see."

Chen Fan nodded, thinking that he would have to tell Xie Kai about these points that need attention later, and he didn't know that there were still these problems before.

After leaving the hotel, Chen Fan called Xie Kai in the car and told him the things to pay attention to when looking for a place for the mine. I asked about the progress of purchasing equipment over there.

Well, the leader opened his mouth and ran down, which was perfectly interpreted by Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang.

No matter what they do, it's the two of them who make up their minds. It's definitely the people under them who do things, and they only look at the results.

During this period of time, the stock price of Maojian shares also remained above 33 yuan, that is, it fluctuated slightly between 36, 7 yuan and 30 yuan. Repeated grinding consumes popularity.

The stock price of Maojian shares rose from 20 yuan to more than 30 yuan, an increase of more than [-]%, which undoubtedly attracted the attention of some funds in the market.

In recent days, traders have obviously felt that there are funds entering the market from time to time to scan goods, but the funds entering the market are not much, it should be some institutions building bottom positions, because they are not sure whether the market outlook of Maojian shares will There is a market, so small funds enter the market to buy, no matter whether it will fall or not, the loss will not be large.

Now the advertisement of Maojian Co., Ltd. has hit the prime time of CTV, and the story has been told for two years. It can be regarded as such an impression in the minds of Chinese people. There are still not many people drinking, mainly because of the high price. The retail price of a liquor has risen from 200 yuan to 320 yuan in three years, an increase of [-]%.

Seeing Zhu Laoqi's plan, Chen Fan felt very helpless.

He couldn't understand why Zhu Laoqi would formulate such a price increase plan to push up the market retail price, but the increase in the ex-factory price of liquor was relatively small. to fifty percent.

The ex-factory price increase is much smaller than the retail price, which is obviously for the sake of profit sharing, so that dealers can have more profit margins after selling Maojian liquor, because the market retail price is a guide price agreed in the purchase and sale contract.

But up to now, the price of Maojian Liquor has been raised, the profit has been given out, and the advertising has been launched, but the sales volume has not increased significantly. It can only be said that the previous market is still very stable, because in the past two years Sales growth is limited.

This made Chen Fan feel that there seemed to be something wrong with the current business model, because those distributors made money, but they did not help Maojian Liquor to expand its sales.

Because the sales volume of the company is relatively stable, the company's performance will naturally increase slightly after the price increase, but Chen Fan feels that it is not yet time to start the market, so let's stabilize it first. After all, liquor stocks are not the hot spot in the market right now. has limited appeal.

Under the premise that the company's fundamentals have not improved significantly, Chen Fan does not think that now is the time to start the stock price of Maojian shares.

Considering that there are continuous funds entering the market to buy, Chen Fan will not have any changes in the short term.

Although Zheng Xiaopang really wanted to gradually increase the stock price of Maojian shares, Chen Fan severely suppressed them.

Those funds that enter the market, after waiting for a period of time, if they can endure loneliness, then take them to make money.

If you can't stand still, hehe.
As for the other liquor stock before, which is the current leader in liquor stocks in the market-Wuliang Liquor Industry, the stock price continued to rise for a while after pulling out the daily limit, and the stock price fell slightly after touching 16 yuan. Below 15 yuan.

Until Wuliangjiuye completed the distribution of ex-rights, the stock price was directly suppressed from the ex-rights price of 7.21 yuan to around 6 yuan, basically going back and forth from where to where, and went on a roller coaster trend.

The stock market has nothing to look at these days, so Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang naturally pay more attention to their mining factory. The area has roughly delineated two locations. According to Xie Kai's meaning, it can basically meet the needs of Chen Fan. Conditions, the equipment has also been ordered.

This is all right in the imperial capital. It is really fast to organize the supply of goods. Most of the equipment has been prepared in two days, and the rest is actually the equipment racks. The impromptu orders have not been completed yet.

Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang spent half a day looking at the two places. One is relatively close to the imperial capital, only 30 kilometers away, and the other is a little farther away, about 70 kilometers away. They are both located in the local area. The suburbs of the county seat are surrounded by open spaces, almost all of which are farmland.

The closest thing is Chaofan's investment in his own assets. In fact, it is in the water plant, where the water supply equipment parts and water plant materials used to be stored as warehouses.

Now it has been vacated, because the parts and components are no longer stored by themselves, they are directly outsourced to the manufacturers, and they have a professional equipment maintenance team.

As for the materials used in the water plant, they are no longer in stock. They are shipped one or two days before use, so the previously built warehouses have been left idle.

Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang went here to take a look first, and felt that the house was a little old and a little small, but according to the plan, it should be able to accommodate thousands of sets of mining machines.

Now they have called this kind of fake computer that is only equipped with a graphics card and can’t do anything other than mine bitcoins a mining machine.

I went to see the second place, which is a little farther away from the imperial capital. It is located in a vacant factory building in an industrial area, and it has not been rented out.

The factory buildings here are spacious and relatively new. The standard factory buildings that have only been built for a few years have not been rented out for use. The distance between the factories is also far enough.

For factories located in industrial areas, the power supply can be guaranteed, but for the network, they have to pay for it themselves and find a special line from the telecommunications company, because these days, the three links of road, water, and electricity are standard equipment in industrial areas. , there must be.

But the Internet is not the case. There is a telephone line. After all, this is considered communication, but Internet access. Sorry, the industrial zone has not considered this matter, and they have to pay for it themselves.

Of course, the price of leasing such a factory building is actually not expensive, but the electricity price is a little higher. According to the price set by the grid, the electricity in the industrial area is used for production, so it must be higher than the residential electricity to be reasonable.

"What do you think?" Chen Fan asked Zheng Xiaopang on the side of the road.

"If a factory is built in the industrial zone here, it seems to be better, but the electricity price is a little more expensive. You know our thing, it consumes electricity when it runs."

Zheng Xiaopang said on the side.

Before, I got a few empty computers to mine coins, and I didn’t notice the cost of mining coins at all. If I dig it, I will earn it.

Afterwards, Chen Fan felt that it was time to increase the efficiency of mining coins and control Bitcoin from the source. The two talents began to plan to establish a special mining factory to mine coins and compete for the newly produced Bitcoins every day.

Well, this time I bought thousands of mining machines. The purchase cost is actually not high, because basically the parts are purchased and equipped in the chassis, so the cost is only more than 1 yuan per machine. Anyway, the configuration is not worth looking at. , but the computing power is definitely N times higher than those of desktop computers, because there are three graphics cards in each case.

Even with the cost of refitting, a total of two people spent less than 2 million to complete the purchase of these 1 mining machines.

But when calculating the electricity bill later, the two of them were scared. To maintain the power of one mining machine requires 1.8 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour. These 1 mining machines will consume 1800 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour when they are running, 24 hours a day. It needs to consume 4.32 kilowatt-hours of electricity. One year is 12 months, 365 days. 1576.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity is a year's consumption.

Well, it's actually not too much, that is, more than ten million yuan in electricity bills. Compared with the current net worth of Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang, this amount of money is really nothing.

But this is a business, and in the business world, accounts are not calculated like this.

"To be honest, I think it's still like what Xie Kai said, tens of millions can buy two small hydropower stations."

Zheng Xiaopang said something abruptly, of course Chen Fan knew the meaning of the words.

After Chen Fan handed over the purchase list to Xie Kai before, Xie Kai scratched his head, not knowing what to buy these things for, and the chassis needs to be modified, no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't understand the purpose of this thing.

Later, after learning what it was from Chen Fan, Xie Kai felt that these two big bosses would really find trouble for him.

Later, when he became more involved and learned more about the situation, he realized that the two bosses might have forgotten about power consumption.

That's why Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang were able to accurately calculate the yearly power consumption of the mine they built by asking for directions.

To be honest, after Xie Kai and Xiao Chen showed the calculated power consumption to the two of them, they were both shocked. Tens of millions of kWh means tens of millions of electricity bills.

How many bitcoins do I have to mine to sell this batch of electricity?
According to Xie Kai's suggestion at the time, it was best to postpone the establishment of the mine and go to the southwest region to see if he could spend several million to buy a small hydropower station and use the power of the small hydropower station to supply the mine.

Simple calculations also show that buying a small hydropower station to supply power to the mine seems to be more cost-effective.

However, Chen Fan and Zheng Xiaopang agreed in private and decided against it.

It was originally an experimental thing, and they didn't have time to calculate the cost. From the perspective of two people, they should run it for two months to see the effect. If the mining efficiency is indeed high, by that time, their Bitcoin exchange It is estimated that it is already online.

Then, of course, it is done in accordance with market rules.

If the currency value of Bitcoin really operates as they expected, there will be no problem in recovering the capital.

But if there is an accident and the price of Bitcoin cannot be raised, then there is no way, just lose two months of electricity bills and the equipment cost of more than one million, not to mention that when the equipment is dismantled and sold second-hand, some costs can be recovered. You can't lose much money to go in.

Because of this, although the two felt that investing in this mining plant seemed to be very risky, they didn't take it seriously at the time.

But at the moment, this is going to be serious. The two of them still hesitate a little when they think of this business with an uncertain future.

It is not a question of more money or less money, but a question of whether the investment business can make money.

Doing business, making money and losing money are easy to understand, but being able to understand does not mean that you can accept it calmly.

Losing tens of millions in business and spending the money for fun are two different things.

"What is the price of Bitcoin now? I mean, besides what you charge, is there anyone in the market that accepts Bitcoin now?"

Chen Fan asked aloud.

"Some of them are basically our current price, which is 7%, but there are fewer people selling them now. I think it will rise to 8% in a short time. According to this trend, it will be sold for 1% next month. The meter is divided."

Zheng Xiaopang said after thinking about it.

"Back then we were thinking about good things, and we all forgot how much the millions of bitcoins are worth now, huh?"

Chen Fan said suddenly.

"Let's get in the car first. Let's put aside the location. After the things are finished, let them put them in the warehouse of our water plant. Don't rush to start the operation for the time being. After seeing the second brother Wang tomorrow night Let’s see what that means and then talk about it.”

Zheng Xiaopang suggested.

"We were really a little edgy about this matter at the beginning, and we placed an order when we ordered the equipment on Tuesday."

Chen Fan thought about it before he said.

"Even if you give up now, you won't lose much money. Even if you take things apart and sell them, you will lose hundreds of thousands at most."

It seems that Zheng Xiaopang has retreated a bit by this time, and feels that this business is a bit unreliable.

According to their calculations, the total market value of Bitcoin now seems to be only tens of thousands of dollars. It is really unreliable for them to invest more money than the total market value in a blind operation.

(End of this chapter)