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Apple's payment product is called Applepay, and Alibaba's payment product is called Alipay. Ziweixing can completely build a financial product called Bitpay around Bitcoin.

Digital currency is the general trend.

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

Except for a few countries, most countries will increasingly recognize the legal value of Bitcoin and gradually accept it at the social level.

Ziweixing can start with Bitcoin and develop the product Bitpay.

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

However, this matter cannot be rushed.

Ziweixing International must first establish a foothold in overseas markets and become a very powerful Internet giant, and then truly develop its 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 the future, many of which are made by small teams of just a few people, and their stability and security are not guaranteed.

This kind of trading platform, just like the stock market platform, just creates a clever name to extract commissions from it. If Bitpay can charge no commission, or if the commission ratio is extremely low, it can easily defeat other trading platforms built for commission, and the entire Bitcoin industry can be unified.

Zhou Buqi is relatively familiar with the domestic Internet financial environment, but he is less clear about foreign countries. The one he knows best is probably Bitcoin.

If Bitpay can become the base camp of Bitcoin, with the super concept of Bitcoin, this product will be 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 outside the domestic market.

There is no way, Alipay is too powerful.

PayPal dominates the global market, with a market value of more than $200 billion.

Alipay only has a domestic market, but once it is approved for listing, its market value will easily exceed US$300 billion, and it will crush a large number of state-owned financial giants such as ICBC, China Construction Bank, Life Insurance, Ping An, CITIC Securities, etc., and become the largest financial company in the country. As for Alipay's business, it can easily become the number one in the country and the world by simply providing a few technological innovation services on scraps of financial territory controlled by state-owned enterprises. This shows how big a market Internet finance is.

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

In the following week, Zhou Buqi stayed in Silicon Valley. First, he found workers and specially packed up a very cool room on the underground floor of his home in Silicon Valley's "Gentleman Manor" to make it fireproof, waterproof and explosion-proof.

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

Zhou Buqi made a special call to consult with Mr. Yang from Lenovo, and said with a smile: "Do you have a machine there? 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? Large quantities must be customized. If the requirements are not high and the quantity is not large, it is still possible to scrape together."

Xu Liangjie had already told Zhou Buqi before this.

It’s just a mining machine, the requirements don’t need to be so high!

The main thing is stability. It cannot be like a personal computer, which will crash after running for a long time. Lenovo brand computers are not very good, but the stability and fluency of ThinkPad brand are guaranteed.

So Zhou Buqi didn't need any additional requirements and just mentioned a few words.

With the scale of a large company like Lenovo, there will definitely be some spare experimental computers with strong performance. Ten or eight of them will be enough, with a budget of US$500,000.

Mr. Yang even joked that he would customize a supercomputer for you, Boss Zhou!

Zhou Buqi said there was no need to be so wasteful. The investment of tens of millions of dollars was not worth it. Just build a batch of computers with stable performance and powerful computing power.

A week later, it was delivered to your door.

There are 10 computers in total.

Only 2 are new, 6 are eliminated from the high-performance business at 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 their looks are also varied.

All are given for free.

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

Start work, start it!

Mining!

It is only 2009, and the entire Bitcoin business is still very immature, and there is not even official mining software.

All we can do is write code according to the officially disclosed complex algorithms, make our own software, and then go mining.

Ordinary people simply cannot do this kind of work.

Fortunately, Zhou Buqi had many capable people. When he assigned Xu Liangjie a task that day, Xu Liangjie spent half an hour on his own and wrote a small mining program.

Then I spent a few days to slightly improve this small mining program and install it on these 10 computers.

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

Logically speaking, Zhou Buqi should invite these people to hang out at home. But there were too many female relatives in the family, and they were all too beautiful, so it was not suitable to show them, so we had to invite them to the main meeting room to chat.

At this time, Zhou Buqi finally understood why the ancient emperors did not allow foreign men to enter the harem.

It’s not that the emperor is stingy, it’s that the emperor understands justice and thinks about his ministers!

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 survive? How can you live your life when you return to your own home?

Maybe we'll get divorced.

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

Just in Qianqing Palace... oh no, chatting with the employees in the conference room, and then sending people to take turns going to the computer room to check the situation. An hour later, when the operation became more stable, they said goodbye and left.

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

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

This shows two things: first, the mining software developed by Xu Liangjie is very stable; second, the stability of these computers provided by Lenovo is good.

I checked them one by one and it was a success!

After 28 hours of fierce battle, 4 powerful computers have completely decrypted a set of data, which represents 50 Bitcoins.

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

In other words, these 10 computers at Zhou Buqi’s home can mine approximately 400 Bitcoins every 24 hours!

In one year, 120,000 Bitcoins can be mined!

enough!

enough!

You know, the total number of Bitcoins is 21 million.

Xu Liangjie checked it out and was quite satisfied with the mining computer room. He first explained: "According to the nature of the Bitcoin algorithm, the fewer the number of Bitcoins mined, the easier it is to mine. The more there are, the harder it is to mine." . Now the Bitcoin system has just been established, so mining is relatively easy. If necessary, I recommend updating the equipment every year to ensure mining efficiency."

Zhou Buqi expressed his understanding and said with a smile: "It's not necessary. It's just an experiment to verify the feasibility of Bitcoin. When our Bitcoin trading platform is built in the future, just go to the platform to buy directly."

It’s so cool to make money playing with coins.

It's more fun than playing stocks.

There is a big money player in China who was originally a teacher at New Oriental. Within a few years, he kept buying Bitcoin and then selling it at high prices, earning more than 13 billion.

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

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

It took more than half a month, but Zhou Buqi finally settled his personal investment in Bitcoin.

Then, he took Sun Wanran and went to the study together.

Seeing how mysterious he was, Sun Wanran knew that something was up to him, so she was reluctant, "What are you doing? I still want to watch a movie!"

Zhou Buqi hummed: "You always play? You don't work anymore?"

Sun Wanran was stunned for a moment, tilted her head and looked at him, "Do you have a job?"

When she was in China, she had a lot of work and had many phone calls and work arrangements to make. Coming to the United States is like a vacation. Boss Zhou is very free, and the secretary is even more free.

Zhou Buqi coughed slightly and asked, "I remember we said before that we need to recruit another computer-savvy secretary to the secretariat."

Sun Wanran looked at him suspiciously, "You, the great emperor, want to draft again? Hey, I think you are too perverted, right? Why didn't I notice it when I was in school?"

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

Sun Wanran shook his head and said: "Don't use my pirated novel website as an excuse. My website is now listed on Ziweiyun. 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!"

"ah?"

"In the computer room on the ground floor, there are 10 computers running and mining every day. If any one of them breaks down, she can handle it at any time. You can't just call Xu Liangjie over if something goes wrong, right? "

"Oh, that's how it is……"

Sun Wanran nodded lightly, feeling that this reason was very strong.

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

Sun Wanran was stunned and speechless.

The time for scheduled release was set wrong again, but luckily I found it in time. . . . .