Chapter 1225 Stirring up the Storm

Zhang Dong opened his eyes wide: "What?"

"Bitcoin." Qin Tao said: "Although this project has been planned for a long time, it is still only spread on a small scale. Next, we want to play a big one!"

"What's big?"

"Golden Sun Electric Vehicle will officially accept payment methods using Bitcoin to purchase electric vehicles." Qin Tao said: "A technological elite like you should have a lot of Bitcoin, right? Do you want to be the first to use Bitcoin to buy a car? "

Zhang Dong nodded: "Okay, I will be the first one, but Mr. Qin, am I suitable?"

After all, we all belong to the same group. This is self-produced and self-sold. Do you want to avoid suspicion?

"There is no need to avoid suspicion. After all, the first batch of people playing Bitcoin must be the technological elite. You are the representative of the technological elite. It is normal for you to have a large amount of Bitcoin on hand."

"good."

July 3, 2006, was an ordinary day, but it was unusual. Many people suddenly discovered that there was an additional message on the website of Golden Sun Electric Vehicles.

From now on, Golden Sun Electric Vehicles accepts Bitcoin purchases!

You only need one hundred Bitcoins to buy a Golden Sun Elite electric car!

What is Bitcoin?

How much is one hundred Bitcoins worth? Golden Sun electric cars are divided into three types: basic type, elite type and luxury type. The elite type is priced at 200,000. This means that one Bitcoin is worth 2,000?

On the Internet, the news spread quickly.

"Bitcoin, don't you know? This thing has been out for several years. It is a decentralized currency system and a brand new concept. This kind of electronic currency only requires a computer. Two years ago, I was in It took about eight hours to get one Bitcoin on my computer.”

"What kind of computer do you have?"

"Godson Three!"

"Loongson III, you can make two thousand yuan by turning on the phone for eight hours? Master, please accept my knee!"

"This is very similar to mining."

"That's right, it's like mining, except you can mine it with a computer."

"What's going on? I want to dig too?"

Soon, countless computers downloaded the Bitcoin program and started mining online. However, they soon discovered that this was not the case.

"Hey, didn't you once dig one out in eight hours? My computer has been working for a day and a night, why haven't I found it yet? Mine is a Godson 4 computer!"

"Do you think this thing can be easily obtained? The total number of Bitcoins is limited. It is easy to obtain at the beginning and becomes more difficult in the later stages. This is to ensure that inflation does not occur. If you can obtain unlimited Bitcoins, then Is this thing still valuable?”

"That's right. How long will it take to dig it now?"

"It depends on the configuration of the machine. In short, it becomes more difficult the further you go. Now it's best to upgrade the configuration to make the computer's computing power faster, so that it will be easier to mine Bitcoin."

"I seem to have heard that there is already a special machine that can be equipped with a lot of graphics cards, which greatly improves the computing power. With this kind of machine, you can dig one in a day."

"You can make two thousand yuan a day? Not bad! How much does this machine cost?"

"I heard that the ex-factory price is 200,000 yuan, but you can't buy it. You have to pay more. You can almost buy it at 400,000 yuan."

"Two thousand a day is 60,000 a month, and 400,000 is only half a year. It's worth it, let's buy it!"

Soon, the whole world knew that there was a special machine with strong computing power that could perform calculations faster than other machines. It would take an ordinary computer a month to dig out one Bitcoin. This kind of machine only It takes a day!

Buy it, you’ll earn it if you buy it! Four hundred thousand is not expensive! What, it’s already increased to 600,000? Six hundred thousand is fine!

The whole world was shocked, and the once weak demand for hardware was suddenly boosted.

Across the ocean, in the United States, Intel Corporation.

The chip company that was once the world's number one can now only rely on government orders to survive, and its prospects are extremely bleak. However, facts continue to prove one sentence: There is no worst, only worse!

"Hardware demand has been weak recently. We originally thought we could use this opportunity to catch up with Loongson. Unexpectedly, they actually played this trick!" Barrett's words were extremely low, and he was very frustrated.

Falling behind step by step, the gap between Intel and Loongson is getting wider and wider, and the market is getting worse and worse. When they find that the hardware market is starting to weaken, they finally heave a sigh of relief.

There is already a surplus of hardware. Who makes the Orientals work so hard and keep following the rules of Moore's Law? There are no such advanced computers in the world anymore!

The hardware performance is excessive, and Loongson Company has to stop its research and development and continue to research more advanced ones? There are no more users, wait!

Who would have thought that the hardware market would continue to boom!

"Yes, they launched artificial intelligence some time ago, and I had a hunch that they were planning to find a way out for hardware with excess performance. However, artificial intelligence is too far away, and not many companies will follow them. "We in the United States, that is, Apple, think this route is the future, but they don't have the strength to develop it."

"Yes, artificial intelligence turned out to be just a cover. Their real plan was actually Bitcoin. This thing was available a few years ago. At that time, none of us took it seriously. Now..."

"Everyone, good news, good news!" At this moment, another person ran in: "There are many customer requests, hoping that Intel can also manufacture mining machines specially used to mine Bitcoin, and we can also earn more. money!”

"Mining requires floating-point computing power." Barrett smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Our main focus at Intel is central processing units. Even if we can develop programs that run on our X86 platform, we cannot supply computing power. Enough mining machines.”

They can't make a profit from this big cake. Moreover, if you think about it, you will know how the other party could leave the market to them. Orientals are so evil!

"We don't have the ability?"

"Yes, this requires a display chip to perform parallel operations. In our country..."

Speaking of this, both of them became even more depressed.

Once upon a time, when Dongfang started to expand into the chip industry, it was only engaged in central processing units, and other ancillary parts had to rely on other manufacturers, such as the north and south bridge chips, which were provided by VIA.

As for graphics cards, we can't even care about them. The United States still has the most advanced chip research and development capabilities, and 3dfx is at a monopoly level.

In 1994, designers from companies such as Silicon Valley Graphics, Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems, and Pellucid jumped out to form 3dfx, hoping to develop the world's most advanced 3D graphics card.

They have done it. Since the establishment of the company, they have developed a large number of advanced technologies and have become a leader in this field. They were originally at an absolute advantage. Who would have thought... this company would be able to go it alone and take the board below? The card manufacturer's job was ruined. In the end, the company didn't get any benefits, and instead bankrupted itself!

When it went bankrupt, Loongson suddenly took over and took away all the backbones. It should have attracted their attention at the time, but Loongson was too covert, and they also had NVDIA. In their eyes, 3dfx collapsed. It just made way for NVDIA. Unexpectedly, Loongson became bigger and became the leader in the field of graphics cards.

NVDIA's situation is not much better than Intel's. Although it is also developing graphics cards, it is incomparable with Oriental graphics cards.

Therefore, even if they see that this is a plate of meat, they are unable to eat it and can only watch the Orientals!

"Damn it, our American technology was originally the most advanced, how could we end up in this situation?"

Everyone is lamenting this matter, what is going on? How could we end up like this?

"Recently, the graphics cards produced by SMIC have been sold out, and all suppliers are crowding outside SMIC waiting to get their goods. This hot scene does not look like a hardware surplus!"

"Yeah, let's... ugh!"

Americans can only sigh and watch the graphics cards keep rising.

Dongfang, Mingzhou Group.

"Mr. Qin, it's really good. Since Golden Sun Electric Vehicle accepted Bitcoin for payment, Bitcoin, which was originally no one cared about, suddenly became popular." Xu Zhengyang said excitedly: "Our chip industry is booming again. .but……"

"But what?"

"Currently, only graphics cards are booming. There is only one processor on the mining machine, which can accommodate more than a dozen graphics cards. Our other chips are still somewhat unsaleable."

"This is simple." Qin Tao said: "Now, it's time for Loongson to stand up and express its opposition."

A few hours later, Mr. Ni appeared in front of the camera.

"We at Loongson are firmly opposed to the popularity of Bitcoin. We do not believe that this so-called virtual currency has actual value. We believe that computers should serve scientific research and daily life, rather than pursuing virtual things. We at Loongson The company has decided to reduce the graphics card quota in the personal machine market from now on.”

There are two main types of computers. One is a brand-name machine. You can buy it as a complete machine with all configurations and software installed in advance. The other is an assembly machine. You can buy accessories in the computer market, which has now evolved to the website. Buy various accessories and assemble it yourself.

This kind of assembled computer is cheaper, can satisfy the hands-on fun of DIYers, and has a large market. The graphics cards on the mining machines are all purchased from this kind of computer market.

Of course, every supplier is out of stock right now, so you can’t even buy it if you want.

"We welcome customers in need to purchase our brand machines and use computers for scientific research and learning, rather than for so-called mining that cannot create any value!"

It is normal for a group to have internal conflicts. However, any group is profitable. Chips are not selling well. Now there is a hot scene. It is said that Loongson Company should fully support it, and Loongson Company can make such a The choice makes people feel emotional.

It’s amazing. It is indeed Loongson, a world-class chip factory. When we find that society is on the wrong track, we immediately start taking practical actions to get everyone back on the right track. Even if we don’t make money, we can’t make money without conscience. Money!

When they heard the news, Barrett, Paul and others on the other side of the ocean continued to smile bitterly. Damn it, this is really a bitch and a memorial at the same time, and it is still so upright, bright and majestic.

Obviously he just wanted to sell other accessories along with it, and he said it so nicely!

A graphics card has been hyped up to 15,000 yuan! And the high-end brand computer equipped with this graphics card sells for 18,000 yuan.

Therefore, anyone with a brain should know that as long as you can buy this brand computer, remove the graphics card inside, match it with a low-end graphics card, and then sell it for three or four thousand yuan, it is still okay.

In this way, the graphics card continues to sell, and other accessories are also sold together, and a good reputation is left. Orientals are too good at playing!

Sure enough, the high-end brand computers equipped with these graphics cards sold instantly, and soon some high-end brand computers equipped with low-end graphics cards were launched and flowed into the market. Due to oversupply, the prices of these brand computers are very cheap. Some people who really need computers for research can buy high-end computers at a low price. Except for the graphics card, all the parts are of the highest configuration!

Not only these brand computers, but in the end it even expanded to notebooks. On those high-end notebooks, the graphics card chips that were originally soldered on were also blown off by the hot air gun and disappeared without a trace.

The electronics market is extremely prosperous!

However, behind this prosperity, there are also many crises hidden.

The day after Loongson released its statement, Qin Tao had a guest in his office.

"Mr. Qin, your Bitcoin solution has indeed revitalized the computer market, but this market is deformed." An old leader said earnestly: "You Loongson Company has expressed dissatisfaction with this approach and decided to suppress this industry."

"Ahem, this leader, there is a problem with your investigation. Bitcoin was not proposed by our Mingzhou Group. This Bitcoin solution was developed by several programmers who support currency decentralization. These programmers are all foreigners and have nothing to do with us."

The old leader smiled: "Okay, it has nothing to do with you, but your Golden Sun electric car allows the purchase of cars with Bitcoin. You can't escape this, right?"

"Yes, this is our decision."

"The Bitcoin industry has been more From a high point of view, there is no benefit, only disadvantage. Countless mining machines have invested a lot of resources and consume a lot of energy. We have done statistics. Now it takes about 30,000 kWh of electricity to mine a bitcoin, and this number will continue to increase as time goes by..."

"I know what the leaders want to say when they ask me to come. I support the decision of my superiors. However, there is more electricity and machines in foreign countries. It should be okay to put this thing abroad, right?"

Qin Tao also knows that this thing cannot be spread in China. After all, it cannot promote scientific and technological progress and civilization development. Virtual currency is valuable if it is said to be valuable, and it is worthless if it is said to be worthless. This thing should be blooming everywhere abroad.

"Yes, if it can be put abroad, it would be the best, but how do you do it?"

This thing appeared on the Internet and can be traded on the Internet. In short, no country can supervise it. It is everywhere. Qin Tao said that it can be transferred abroad, so as not to harm the country?

Qin Tao smiled and said, "It's very simple. Mining is getting more and more difficult, and we have to stimulate the market again."

The next day

"We believe that the emergence of Bitcoin has seriously disrupted the market order, so from today on, Bitcoin is prohibited from circulating in our market! We must not allow mining machines to exist here, which is a waste of resources and meaningless!"

This simple news immediately blew up the currency circle. In a word, it is prohibited from circulating? Then this thing is a waste!

For a time, the market value of Bitcoin fell rapidly. Many people who had just bought mining machines and wanted to make a big move suddenly encountered such a change, and they even thought about jumping off a cliff.

On this day, Golden Sun Electric Vehicles also briefly released a message.

"We have deeply realized our mistakes. In the domestic market, we will give up the plan of using Bitcoin to buy Golden Sun electric vehicles. Of course, we will deliver the 47 vehicles that have been purchased on schedule, and we have already delivered 32 vehicles."

Hearing this, some mining machine owners trembled all over.

"However, our Golden Sun electric vehicles are the electric vehicles with the highest sales in the world. Except for Dongfang, our transaction is still valid in other countries. Of course, buyers should pay attention not to drive electric vehicles purchased with Bitcoin to our Dongfang, otherwise they will be confiscated."

You can still buy it, just in a different place!

In an instant, everyone's face turned from cloudy to sunny.

"Finally, as Bitcoin becomes increasingly difficult to mine, its value is also rising. After a new evaluation, we believe that the next batch of subscribers can use 80 Bitcoins to buy an elite electric car."

Wow!

The currency market exploded again!

Virtual currency will be sought after only when it has actual value. It is because it can be used to buy Golden Sun electric cars that it has become popular. If it cannot be bought, it is just a string of empty codes.

Originally thought they were going to go bankrupt, but unexpectedly, a better life is waving at them!

Mining is getting harder and harder, and the value of Bitcoin will get higher and higher. In the future, maybe one or two Bitcoins can buy an electric car!

What are you waiting for? Move the battlefield and roll up your sleeves to work hard!

In addition to mining machines, mining also requires power supply. Wherever the power is cheap, you can make money!

There are many places in the world where electricity is cheap, especially some water power stations in mountainous areas. With power stations, electricity cannot be transmitted, and those electricity are super cheap.

Go to all parts of the world to buy electricity! As a miner, you don’t care about the height of the mountains and the depth of the water. As long as there is electricity to mine, you can make money!

Moreover, the value of Bitcoin is recognized, and there will be more and more occasions for its use. Slowly, there will be many transactions using Bitcoin. As long as it is mined, you can make money!

A better life is beckoning!

Miners have emerged all over the world. In the huge computer room, rows of mining machines are working hard, and countless mining cards are running happily, calculating various illusory data, and these mining cards are real.