Actor: My Entertainment Era

Chapter 333 Fighting the Future

Although Zhang Yuanjun proposed the original idea of ​​the microblog to his boss, Zhang Yuanjun did not dare to take credit for the success of Twitter.

The boss first started working on Facebook, and later on Twitter, both of which were inseparable from one word - social.

He clearly realizes that Internet social networking is a blue ocean, and it is a blue ocean that can incubate a company with a market value of trillions of dollars.

As for how much you can eat, it depends on future development.

The boss and Zuckerberg have completely broken up. When Twitter initially attracted the attention of the investment community a few years ago, it received investment and even acquisition invitations.

Among them is his old friend Zuckerberg.

However, Facebook's invitation was sternly rejected by Zhang Leping. He was still very concerned about being kicked out of the startup company by his friends. At that time, he scolded Zuckerberg in the office for being ungrateful: "I will disband Twitter without selling him any shares!"

Even now he still retains a paltry 0.00042% of Facebook shares.

Zhang Leping is on the front line of the market as a business manager. At the same time, he is also a PhD candidate in computer science in Los Angeles, California, which means that he is still on the front line of the Internet academic community.

He can be the first to get in touch with some emerging technologies that are not commercially available or have uncertain prospects.

He can also immediately understand some of the industry's wild technological imaginations for future development.

When Zhang Yuanjun came to see him at home, he made several bold assertions with his brother:

"For individual consumers, the future must be the mobile Internet and the world of smartphones. TV, movies, and games will be integrated into mobile phones. Except for some necessary tasks, the PC market will gradually shrink in the future.

"Even cars will be Internetized in the future."

"Second, on the enterprise side, AI, cloud computing and big data must be development trends. I attended an academic conference last month, and many experts have already achieved preliminary results and are pursuing commercialization."

Zhang Yuanjun was half-informed and uninterested, so he asked his eldest brother: "When did you graduate? Why do I think you have been studying for a doctorate for six or seven years?"

Zhang Leping said with a smile: "It is normal for a doctor to study for six or seven years. Don't worry, I am already preparing for my graduation thesis. If everything goes well, I will graduate next year."

Although his younger brother doesn't understand computer science, Zhang Leping is still willing to chat with him: "Let me tell you, I recently discovered an interesting thing called blockchain."

Zhang Yuanjun's temples jumped.

"I took a look at this thing. Technically speaking, this guy named Satoshi Nakamoto is definitely a genius. Unfortunately, I sent him a message backstage to ask for a meeting, but he ignored me."

"I thought about the application scenarios of this technology. It can be used in finance, logistics, and public services. I haven't figured out the specifics. However, Satoshi Nakamoto used this technology to create a virtual currency. It is like a game currency. It is available online. Isn't currency just a string of codes, can it be valuable?" Zhang Leping is obviously not optimistic about the so-called online virtual currency, thinking that it is just a boring toy for surfing the Internet.

"Do you have one?" Zhang Yuanjun asked casually.

"have what?"

"Just that virtual currency."

"I was curious at first, so I got three thousand of them, but they were boring, so I threw them away." Zhang Leping also laughed, "I also used this blockchain to write a few papers."

It seems that the value of blockchain to Zhang Leping is to help him write papers.

"Where are your three thousand coins?" Zhang Yuanjun asked.

"Just save it on my computer."

Fortunately, he was still there, and Zhang Yuanjun let out a sigh of relief.

Zhang Yuanjun used his computer to search for relevant information on the Internet for the next few days. There was a dedicated forum for this thing so early.

Until the 18th, Zhang Yuanjun found a "transaction post" on a forum. The poster was Laszlo Hanyecz, from Florida, who said he wanted to eat Papa John's pizza. If someone on the forum could buy him two pizzas, he would be willing to pay. 10000 coins.At this time, Bitcoin transactions were not trusted at all, and there were very few responders to the post.

But Zhang Yuanjun knew that this was his chance.

He quickly left a message saying that although he was in New York, he was willing to do this "interesting attempt" with two pizzas: "Tell me your address and I'll call Papa John's Pizza and ask them to send you two pizzas." .”

Hanyecz quickly replied, saying that he was glad that someone could do such an interesting experiment with him, and gave Zhang Yuanjun his address and the delivery phone number of Papa John’s Pizza.

Zhang Yuanjun ordered two pizzas for him.

An hour later, Hanyecz sent a photo saying he had received the pizza: "That pizza looks delicious!"

And the promised 10000 coins were traded to Zhang Yuanjun - Zhang Yuanjun did not have an account. He used the account of his elder brother Zhang Leping. He was not optimistic about the future of Bitcoin, and the 3290 coins in the account were also given to his younger brother.

Hanyecz tasted the sweetness and said he was willing to continue using coins to buy pizza, and asked Zhang Yuanjun if he was still willing to trade with him: "I still have more than 30000 coins."

Hanyecz was afraid that Zhang Yuanjun was just acting on a whim and would give up after doing the first transaction today to get a taste of the novelty, so he used his eloquence to add value to their transaction: "We are defeating the Internet, defeating the whole world, and we use virtual currency Getting real food. Man, think about how cool that is, I got free food without spending a penny."

Zhang Yuanjun thought to himself: "Nonsense, of course you didn't spend any money. I paid for the pizza!"

But he readily agreed to continue such an "interesting deal."

In the afternoon of the same day, Hanyecz spent another 10000 yuan to buy a pizza dinner from Zhang Yuanjun.

At noon the next day, Hanyecz ordered a burger dinner for another 10000 yuan, and had pizza in the evening.

In this way, Zhang Yuanjun had 43290 coins in his hand.

The transaction between Zhang Yuanjun and Hanyecz attracted the attention of many people in the forum, and they all sent transaction requests to Zhang Yuanjun, a rare victim who was willing to accept Bitcoin.

But because Zhang Yuanjun is in New York, unlike Hanyecz, there happens to be a chain pizza restaurant nearby to serve him.

Therefore, many seemingly good transactions cannot be carried out. For example, someone wants to use 10000 coins to let Zhang Yuanjun fill up his car with gas.

But it doesn’t matter, America has Amazon and eBay, and this group of water forum programmers are also relatively receptive to online shopping.

They invested in online shopping platforms, Zhang Yuanjun gave them online shopping items, and they transferred Bitcoins to Zhang Yuanjun.

The price is based on the pizza transaction, 10000 coins is about 40 US dollars.

Zhang Yuanjun came to New York to start filming a new drama!

As a result, the forum has been flooded these days!

The key is that express delivery in the United States is extremely slow. Even if Zhang Yuanjun buys items online for the other party, the other party will not receive it within 10 days and a half. If the other party cannot receive the goods, he will not receive anything in return.

Therefore, the entire transaction process was extremely long.

There are also scammers here who will not give you coins after receiving the goods. Zhang Yuanjun is also mentally prepared for this.

It wasn't until the day "Never Ended" was launched that Zhang Yuanjun announced on the forum: "I still need to work, so I won't do business for the time being."

Zhang Yuanjun estimated how much he had earned in the past few days. He couldn't calculate the exact amount, but it should be quite a lot.

With my mind at peace, I started working on the movie.

　Write a meaning, don’t dwell on it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)