Rebirth of England.

Chapter 800 Mentougou

It can be said that the Oriental Movie Metropolis project caused a huge response throughout China as soon as it was announced.

After all, the total investment of this project will exceed 500 billion Chinese yuan, which will be the largest film and television investment project in China so far.

At the same time, the participation of Hollywood companies including Marvel-MGM Studios and Blue Valley Capital has also attracted widespread attention to this project. At this time, Chinese audiences are most welcoming to Hollywood film and television works, not to mention that Marvel's "Marvel Universe" series of films has now become popular all over the world.

The 007 series of films owned by MGM Studios is also one of the most well-known Hollywood films among Chinese people.

This time, Qindao was very sincere in order to win the project. In addition to the demolition and land leveling of 400 plots covering an area of ​​16 million square meters, Qindao also agreed to provide some preferential tax subsidy policies for the future studio within the Oriental Movie Metropolis.

Of course, before that, the Oriental Movie Metropolis project also needs to show a certain degree of sincerity - the purpose of Qindao itself in introducing this project, in addition to obtaining investment and development, is also to carry out some activities around the film and television industry, including film festivals, cultural and tourism projects, which can expand Qindao's international reputation.

This increase in popularity can itself bring in more overseas investment and increased tourism revenue.

If the Oriental Movie Metropolis project can really achieve such an effect, Qindao will naturally not be stingy with various supporting policies - they will give what they can, and if the local government cannot give, they are also willing to actively seek policy support from above.

This in itself can achieve a win-win effect.

But if this project ultimately fails to achieve the expected results, I am afraid their attitude will change accordingly.

This is not a difficult task for Oriental Movie Metropolis Group. Since they have decided to carry out such a project, they already have sufficient relevant resources to guarantee it.

After all, the shareholders of Oriental Movie Metropolis Group also include Blue Valley Capital and Marvel-MGM Pictures, which have great influence in Hollywood.

For example, the groundbreaking ceremony of Oriental Movie Metropolis is scheduled to be held next month. At that time, top Hollywood stars including Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicole Kidman who participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of Yida Movie Metropolis in the original time and space will still come.

In addition, actors who play members of the "Avengers", such as Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, as well as other Hollywood stars who have close ties with Marvel-MGM Pictures, will also gather in Qindao.

This kind of situation had never happened before in China at that time.

Therefore, it can be said that the Oriental Movie Metropolis project has now attracted enough attention from the Chinese media, and related reports appear in the media almost every day.

Of course, some of these reports were arranged by them, but there was also attention from some literary and artistic media that were very interested in Hollywood - after all, it was well known that there were quite a lot of people in China's literary and artistic circles who admired the West.

Just like now, a certain Asian-American who is as well-known in China as Fan Bingbing and is called a "celestial being" in China, her mother took the initiative to contact Tianhe Film and Television, hoping to get her a chance to appear at the Oriental Movie Metropolis groundbreaking ceremony, so that she can appear on the same stage with those Hollywood stars...

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"Hello, Mr. McCaleb, nice to meet you..."

“Are you the one who wants to buy my website?”

Jed McCaleb, a white man with curly brown hair, asked as he looked at the young man sitting in front of him.

Although he was called a young man, he actually looked a little green. Jed thought he was less than 20 years old, so he was a little uncertain.

“Yes, sir, my name is Rami Shakfa, and I represent Matrix Capital and would like to acquire your Mt.Gox website. We think it is very interesting…”

“But with all due respect, Rami, our website is doing very well. Although BitC is just a new thing, we have already occupied the vast majority of its trading share. Moreover, someone else has contacted me now, hoping to acquire Mt.Gox, and his bid is much higher than yours…”

Perhaps because the young man in front of him looked a little immature, and because he was wearing casual clothes and didn't look like someone with much business experience, Jed's tone was not so polite. If he didn't want to use other acquirers to increase the price of selling his website, he wouldn't have said too much to him today.

Sitting opposite Jed was Rami, who had been funded by Barron before and was in charge of the Predator Fund in DS Capital. However, now he had a new position and became the head of the newly established investment company called Matrix Capital.

Juzhen Capital is an investment company founded by Barron to invest in the blockchain industry. The reason why he chose Rami Shakfa as the head of this company is not only to train him, but also because Rami is very young and has a very high IQ, and can communicate more easily with this industry which is currently dominated by young people.

At the same time, Rami also has sufficient experience in financial investment, which is beneficial to the development of Juzhen Capital in the early stage of digital Coin development.

Looking at Jed McCaleb in front of him at this moment, some of the other party's information also emerged in Rami's mind.

Jed McCaleb was born into a single-parent family in Arkansas, USA, and was raised by his mother.

Jed was proficient in mathematics and science since childhood, and successfully entered UC Berkeley, which has trained more than 90 Nobel Prize winners. However, he had a wide range of interests and lacked concentration, so he eventually chose to drop out and moved to New York.

In New York, he co-founded the p2p file transfer commercial software eDonkey.

The software was a huge success, and eventually the Recording Industry Association of America sued them for copyright infringement - this is somewhat similar to the founding team of Skype, who also started their business with P2P file transfer software and were also sued by the Recording Industry Association of America...

In the end, the lawsuit was settled with Jade and his partners paying $3000 million in compensation and shutting down eDonkey.

But regardless, they still made millions of dollars from this business.

Although a bit introverted, Jed is not ambiguous when it comes to making friends and has had many romantic affairs...

In July 2010, Jed accidentally got one of his "girlfriends" pregnant, and the two decided to have the baby.

Jed used his savings to buy a house with a swimming pool in northern New York. During that time, he was addicted to a game called "The Far Wilds" all day long...

One day, Jed accidentally saw an article about BitC in his room and was immediately attracted - isn't this the vision of his founding eDonkey? Returning power to individuals...

But when he wanted to buy BitC, he found that it was very inconvenient to buy BitC on the existing website.

So he built a trading website overnight, using a domain name he bought in 2007, mtgox.com...

Mt.Gox is the abbreviation of "Magic The Gathering Online eXchange", which was the website used to trade recharge cards for the role-playing game "Magic: The Gathering" at the time.

However, in China, most people translate it as "Mentougou" Exchange based on its pronunciation...

On July 7, the first day of its official launch, Mt.Gox traded 18 BitCs at 20 cents each.

Within a week, the daily transaction volume exceeded one hundred US dollars.

Throughout July, due to Slashdot's reports, more and more computers joined the BitC network, and BitC's founder Satoshi Nakamoto decided to increase the difficulty of mining to ensure an average block time of 10 minutes.

All of a sudden, the difficulty of BitC mining increased by 300%. Many people found that their old computers could no longer mine BitC, so they started buying BitC instead - which attracted more users to Mt.Gox.

By the end of July, Mt.Gox had become the world's largest BitC exchange in terms of transaction volume, and its trading volume once accounted for more than 7% of the global BitC trading volume!

(End of this chapter)