I stole someone else's ticket to rebirth

Chapter 287 Why are there so many USB flash drives?
The day before the Chinese New Year, Li Yang received a call from Chen Peipei.

"Li Xiao said he wanted to talk to you."

"No! I can just tell you if there's anything. I don't care about the platform."

Li Yang is now determined not to continue associating with Li Xiao.

Now the Bitcoin platform has been issued illegal certification by multiple countries.

Last year, it was China first. Li Xiao had no choice but to run to Xiaobenzi. However, within two months, Xiaobenzi also deemed it illegal and expelled him.

Then he went to Po County, but now he can no longer stay there.

"He asked you to recommend a place. He feels that the only place he can go is the United States. He has already bought a house there."

Li Yang said: "If he doesn't want to die, he'd better not go to the United States. Let him go to the UAE and find a place to stay. It's best not to leave. Anyway, he is not short of money now, and he can have whatever life he wants."

"Row."

After hanging up the phone, Li Yang felt deeply moved.

I don’t know if Li Xiao regrets it now.

If you just hold 100,000 bitcoins, you can still become a millionaire.

Although I have more money now...

Although he only holds 30% of the platform, in the one year and ten months since the platform was established, due to its strong guarantee capability, there has never been any problem with the contract and no user has been disconnected, resulting in that most of the Bitcoin contract transactions in the market have been absorbed by their platform.

When the price of Bitcoin was as high as $20,000, the daily trading volume of Bitcoin spot was more than 10 billion US dollars, and the daily contract trading volume was 50 to 60 billion US dollars.

The transaction fee for contract trading is generally 20,000 for placing an order and 15,000 for taking an order, which comes to 70,000 in total.

The daily contract transaction amount of their platform is at least over 30 billion US dollars, which means that the platform can earn more than 20 million US dollars a day, which is 600 million US dollars a month.

Although this scale only lasted for about four months, the current Bitcoin trading volume is only more than 6 billion US dollars. Although the platform scale has increased, the Bitcoin price has reached a low level, and contract trading is not active enough, with daily contract trading at around 15 billion US dollars.

The platform's daily revenue is about 10 million US dollars, and 300 million US dollars a month.

In less than two years, the company has earned more than $10 billion in platform fees alone.

A 30% profit is already equivalent to the value of the Bitcoin held by Li Xiao.

Moreover, he also took advantage of the platform's convenience to sell some Bitcoin.

Even if it is counted as the company's overall profit, he still made money.

In less than two years, his net worth has reached nearly 4 billion US dollars, qualifying him to be on the rich list.

As a result... he ran away like a rat.

After a while, Chen Peipei called again, "I'm back in Jiangcheng. Come over here. I'm in the house you bought for Qingqing."

Li Yang glanced at the time and said, "Okay."

It's still early, not time to go to bed yet.

Li Yang knew what Chen Peipei wanted to say. He had previously told Chen Peipei not to talk about the situation of Bitcoin or the platform on the phone.

He said something to Jiang Banxia, ​​went downstairs and drove away.

A few minutes later, we stopped at Qingshui Bay.

He and Jiang Banxia were either in Qingshui Bay or in Shihe Mansion. As for the villa in Green Water World, it had been renovated after more than half a year, and the landscaping of the villa area had also been completed. In another half a year, they could move in at any time.

At least no one has moved in yet.

Bai Qing's house has not been occupied for a long time. Li Yang even left the key in Jiangbei and did not bring it back.

After knocking on the door, Chen Peipei opened it quickly.

Because there was no heating, Chen Peipei wore a thick sweater even when the heater was on in the room.

But her figure is really good, and the sweater has a very obvious curve.

After Li Yang came in, he found two large boxes in the room.

He walked over with interest and asked, "What is this?"

As he spoke, he opened it.

Then...it was golden inside...

Chen Peipei hurried over to cover it and said, "You promised me that I will pay for whatever I spend."

"I didn't ask for it, I just wanted to take a look... where did you get so much?"

"You're sure you won't regret it, right?"

"Sure!"

"That's good."

Chen Peipei felt relieved and said, "These two boxes are just a small part, adding up to only one ton. I took a lot of effort and ran back and forth more than ten times before I got them to the room."

"Is this just a small part?"

"I collected these in China. I arranged for some people to get investment gold bars from major domestic banks. I didn't dare to take too much, for fear of being targeted."

Li Yang: "..."

What does it mean to not dare to take too much?
One ton? Isn't that a lot?

Although one ton of gold is now worth only more than 200 million yuan, less than 300 million yuan, the domestic control over gold is very strict, and Chen Peipei has definitely been targeted.

But these are just small things, Chen Peipei has the spending power.

"From what you just said, you also got the goods abroad?"

Chen Peipei nodded, "Yes, in Switzerland, they will send me five tons in March."

In Chen Peipei's opinion, a few tons of gold is enough.

Li Yang said angrily, "I promised to let you buy as much as you want, why are you only buying so little? You dare to buy one ton in China, so why can't you buy 100 tons abroad?"

Chen Peipei: “????”

Li Yang felt that Chen Peipei still couldn't let go.

It’s just this little bit of gold, how can it fill the gaps between your teeth?
So he said: "Don't buy a lot of gold in China, it's easy to be targeted. But if you buy from abroad, there is no such restriction. You can open a gold processing company and buy abroad in the name of the company. The control of gold imports is not very strict, just follow the declaration process honestly, and there is no tax on the import of precious metals."

"and then?"

"Then just find a place to store it! But this place is not suitable for storing gold. I have reserved a villa for Qingqing over at Green Water World. I will give you the key of the villa in a couple of days. There is a basement over there. You can find someone to build a treasure house for you to store gold. Gold doesn't take up space. You can easily build a treasure house of dozens of square meters and store hundreds or even thousands of tons of gold. By the way, remember to make the foundation firm to avoid collapse."

Chen Peipei: "..."

Li Yang is a really bold guy.

"That would cost tens of billions..."

"Don't you have tens of billions? If not, I will investigate the Huobi platform."

"Yes! But...are you really willing to do so?"

In Chen Peipei's opinion, Li Yang is so rich, he should not say anything if he squanders tens of billions, after all, Bai Qing has given birth to a child for him.

But if he squandered tens of billions, would this guy not feel bad?

"How much money do you have now?"

“It seems that there is not much left, only a few billion dollars. After all, you asked me to buy a lot of stocks last year... In addition, in order to balance the Bitcoin contract transactions during this period, I inserted a long contract in it..."

The price of Bitcoin has now dropped to three thousand U.S. dollars per coin. Although the panic in the market has almost dissipated, for the platform, the number of short orders is still greater than the long orders.

Although a balance can be achieved to a certain extent, Li Yang wants to take advantage of the upside-down profit, so he lets Chen Peipei follow up, just take it when there is a chance.

Bitcoin contracts look similar to futures contracts, but they are actually different.

Futures contracts generally have time limits. For example, for a large volume in a certain month, the contract must be redeemed at the end of the time period regardless of profit or loss.

Bitcoin contracts do not require delivery, just like stocks circulating in the market, and they can continue to increase.

As long as there is money in the account, a contract can be opened.

Li Yang thought about it and realized that the money he had asked Chen Peipei to use to buy stocks seemed to be quite a lot...

So he asked, "How much money is left in the platform account?"

There is more than one financial account on the Bitcoin platform. After all, there is too much money involved and it is too eye-catching.

Now basically one account has tens of millions of dollars, and the most is only three to five hundred million dollars.

It is not easy for the United States to investigate. After all, the US dollar is a global currency, and other countries have more or less accounts there. It is impossible to block it without solid evidence, right?

This is the drawback of the US dollar, it cannot be controlled.

Once it is controlled, no one will use the US dollar anymore.

So in the previous life, the United States could only target Lao Zhao, but not the Binance account. It could not target him.

Even though we know that Binance’s account is among billions of US dollar accounts, there is no way to check it.

"The platform's share is more than $12 billion, and the user's share is around $32 billion."

"Then spend as you like. If you run out of money, ask Li Xiao to split the bill. It's our own money, so you can spend it however you want."

Li Yang knew about the last split of accounts in early 2018, when Li Xiao sold bitcoins held by the platform, earning $ million for the company. Then he asked for a split of accounts, and at that time the platform account had less than $ billion in revenue.

Li Xiao took away $1 billion, and Chen Peipei took away $2.3 billion.

Chen Peipei thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. These are enough. If there are too many, I'm afraid you won't be able to give them up and will find excuses to regret it later."

"Don't regret it! Listen to me and buy it quickly! When you are ready, ask Li Xiao to split the accounts, divide all the money in the account, and then use it all to buy gold. If you don't trust me, give me half of the gold you buy, and I will give you the key to my villa. You can also help me build a safe for storing gold and put my share in it."

Li Yang is short of money in the country, but he has plenty of money abroad.

Last time I took a big bite out of the Bitcoin contract.

At that time, he had so much money that he couldn't spend it all. If he hadn't been worried about the impact, he could have made more from that wave.

Although two or three hundred billion yuan has been invested in the country in recent years, it is just a fraction of the total.

He urgently needs a variety of asset allocations, and after comprehensive consideration, gold is a very important part.

If it can't accommodate tens of billions, it's not considered asset allocation.

U.S. stocks have already been allocated, and the domestic market also needs to allocate U.S. stocks. Even if the scale of U.S. stocks is larger, it is impossible for him to take up so much share.

As of now, the configuration is basically full, and some space must be reserved for the follow-up.

Li Yang really overestimated Chen Peipei's ambition. He thought that Chen Peipei would hoard gold crazily without him saying anything.

It is definitely most appropriate to buy gold from abroad because there is an inverted relationship between the international gold price and the domestic gold price.

Generally, one gram costs about two or three yuan. In a few years when there is a gold shortage in the country, the price can even reach five or ten yuan.

The gold price in Hong Kong is in line with international standards, so many people will go to Hong Kong specifically and bring back gold in the flesh.

Seeing that Li Yang didn't seem to be joking, Chen Peipei said, "Okay, okay, I'll start contacting him after the New Year. I've compiled the information about the platform's situation this year, you can go and take a look."

"it is good."

Li Yang walked to the study, where a thick stack of printed materials was located.

At the same time, Chen Peipei also thoughtfully prepared a crusher for him.

Li Yang shattered every page he read.

Even with just a cursory glance, it still took him two hours to finish.

All I can say is... it’s too damn profitable!
But people are risking their lives on this, and if it doesn't make money, who would still do it?

Huobi currently accounts for 80% of the Bitcoin trading platform, of which domestic users account for 30%.

No matter what kind of business it is in the world, there will always be Chinese people involved.

Li Yang will not interfere too much in the market, but just make a little money within the existing framework.

It’s their ability that makes money, and it has nothing to do with them if they get cut off.

The platform now has a stable profit of $300 million per month.

If this share can be maintained, the price of Bitcoin will rise again in another month...

Currently, Bitcoin spot trading is only $6 billion per day.

The proportion of contract transactions has decreased to less than 20 billion US dollars.

In another month, when the price of Bitcoin rises to around US$5,000, the spot trading volume will exceed US$17 billion per day, and the contract trading volume will be around US$80 billion.

Based on an 80% share, the platform's daily revenue is around 44 million US dollars, which is 1.3 billion US dollars a month.

This is not the peak... The peak started at the end of the year, when the price was sprinting from $9,000 to $40,000 per unit. The average daily spot transaction volume was around $30 billion, and the contract transaction volume was around $180 billion.

"what……"

Suddenly, Li Yang heard a scream.

I hurried out of the study and immediately smelled the strong smell of oil smoke emanating from the entire house.

Hearing the clanging sounds coming from the kitchen, he walked over and saw Chen Peipei frying eggs, holding a spatula in one hand and holding the lid of the pot in front of her with the other.

He timidly stretched out his spatula, as if trying to flip the omelette.

The result is that if I don't do it well, I'm afraid the oil will splash onto my body.

Seeing this, Li Yang walked in and turned off the fire directly, saying, "You go out, I'll do it."

Chen Peipei was a little embarrassed. "Okay, thank you for your help."

She was really hungry. After all, Bai Qing hadn't come back and no one made her a meal.

Although there is takeout here, but tomorrow is Chinese New Year, and it's already past 10 o'clock at night, there are no real takeouts, only barbecue and the like.

The most important point is that she had takeout for lunch today, which didn’t taste very good and was not hygienic.

She stood at the door and saw Li Yang pour out the oil in the pan, and the fried egg... one side was burnt.

Seeing Li Yang's skilled movements, she asked, "Why don't you and Qingqing worry about oil splashing when you cook?"

"You heated the oil too hot..."

“How do you tell if it’s hot or not?”

"Put your hand in there. If it hurts, it means it's hot... Forget it, forget it. I was just kidding. If you take it seriously, it's none of my business."

"Do I look like a fool?"

She would rather not eat than test the oil temperature with her hand, as she was trying to lose weight.

Li Yang asked, "Are you going back to Jiangbei tomorrow?"

"No, I'll come back after the New Year. Didn't you say you would give me the key?"

"Then I'll take you to see it tomorrow and make you a New Year's Eve dinner. Remember to buy whatever you want to eat at the supermarket."

Li Yang also didn't want Chen Peipei to suffer any injustice, as she was his most senior employee.

Without him, I would lose a lot of money every year.

Anyway, no matter what, he would not personally get involved in the Bitcoin trading platform, no matter how much profit there was.

"Okay."

Chen Peipei had planned to go to Green Water World for dinner, but there were too many people there these two days and she didn't like to squeeze with others.

The same goes for eating out in restaurants. She doesn't like to go to restaurants with a lot of people, which leads to her often falling into traps.

There must be a reason why a restaurant is less crowded.

Either the service is bad, the food is terrible, or both.

As if she suddenly thought of something, she said, "By the way, Qingqing said that her child will go to kindergarten soon, and she plans to change the child's name. Can you help her think of one?"

"Ah? Now isn't that a good name?"

"She said she wanted to change her child's surname to Li."

"No, no, Bai Ye is a nice name. He looks like someone who can do great things. Let's change the surname to Li for the next child..."

Li Yang knew Bai Qing's little thoughts too well.

Is this asking me to change my son's name? This is a test for me.

Otherwise, why didn't they mention this matter for more than a year? Why did they specifically ask Chen Peipei to speak up?

If I changed, Bai Qing would agree, but she would definitely be a little confused.

He had only one answer on this matter, which was to wait until the next child.

On the one hand, he planned something that he would definitely do in the future, so that Bai Qing wouldn't have any random thoughts. On the other hand, he didn't want to take away the right to bear the surname this time.

There is no doubt that it is best for this child to have the surname Bai.

Although Bai Jingxuan is not a good guy, he is also a ruthless person.

Bai Ye's birth was destined to be full of conditions. Even if Bai Jingxuan entered the coffin, as long as the child had the surname Bai, he would pave the way for the child before he died, which could save Li Yang a lot of energy.

What Li Yang does may not be as good as what Bai Jingxuan does.

"You are so generous?"

Li Yang brought out the cooked noodles, put them on the table, and said, "For my son, as long as it's good for him, I will support it unconditionally! Eat quickly, I'm leaving!"

After saying that, Li Yang turned and left.

If he stayed any longer, Jiang Banxia would probably start to think more.

……

Jiang Banxia was looking for her things in the cupboard. After all, it was New Year's Day and she had to prepare gifts for both sides of her parents.

But... I forgot where it is.

She opened Li Yang's private wardrobe, and then opened a small drawer inside.

"Hey, why are there so many USB flash drives?"

(End of this chapter)