When I am reborn in Hong Kong, I just want to lie down

At a time when mortgage bonds are being sold on a large scale around the world, the global Internet is being attracted by an article: "Digital Currency: PTP's Electronic Currency System."

At the end of 2004, this news spread like a virus on the global Internet. Of course, it was only limited to professionals. As for ordinary people, they had only seen it in newspapers or heard about it.

If people from the future really see it, they will definitely shout that this is impossible. This familiar article will definitely make them exclaim that this thing that should have only appeared at the end of 2008 has been four years in advance. It must be the appearance of peers. .

In a certain area in the central and western part of the mainland, there are beautiful mountains and rivers, lots of water and mountains, and less flat land. It has abundant water resources. Including here, at least ten hydropower stations have been built nearby. However, these hydropower stations are not sold online. , which is supplied to an underground cave next to it. The heat generated here day and night can heat up this huge cave by more than 20 degrees.

The first time people settled here was in 2002. At that time, a company approached the local government and decided to invest in building a world-class computing power center here. At that time, the word computing power was still very unfamiliar to people, but investment It is relatively huge, and the development of water and electricity here is readily accepted by the local government.

Twenty security personnel and more than 20 staff are stationed here.

"Hey, what exactly are our devices doing? It seems quite mysterious." A hardware engineer in a white coat looked at a large number of devices, where he was calculating constantly 24 hours a day.

The person in question said: "We only maintain hardware, and we can't contact software maintenance people. Don't ask around. Ten thousand a month, okay?"

"I'm just curious."

"Our project is public, it is a computing power company. You are new here, so you may not know what a computing power company is. It is a company that provides computing for many Internet companies, so why are you curious?"

"Yes Yes Yes!"

After they left, they observed the people here, retrieved their previous videos and their voices, and then, not long after, the new guy was transferred away.

There is a satellite receiving and transmitting device here, and every day, there will be a data transmission.

On January 2005, 1, a lot of software suddenly appeared on the Internet. These software were based on the article and concepts of "Digital Currency: PTP's Electronic Currency System". There were more than a dozen types of software developed. The names are also different.

Because of the wide variety, it has not attracted recognition from the mainstream world, because there are more than a dozen such currencies at one time, and the algorithms in them are different.

For a moment, it was dizzying, and it felt like there were more than a dozen of these things, and they were all just following the trend.

Some people expressed their opinions on the forum: Digital currency is much superior to paper money, but unfortunately it cannot be used.

'I think it's just some people who are sensationalizing. '

'Not necessarily, what if, this kind of thing is useful, but we haven't found it yet. '

'Don't be stupid, it's just a password, what's the use? '

'Upstairs, please stop joking, okay?The password can open the door to the treasure house and collect the cash in your card. '

'You are stupid, your whole family is stupid, the password is gone, you can reset it. '

Just as they were discussing, a post was slowly posted on the roof: Haven't you noticed that this kind of thing is very suitable for money laundering or black market transactions. '

This post has been read by countless people, including those in the dark. Yes, this kind of thing seems to be born to do this.

Under such circumstances, the world's first digital currency trading center appeared in Lijiapo. The founder was an island native named Mr. Chong Ben'er. Mr. Chong Ben'er rented a Wharf warehouse in Lijiapo near the Lijiapo Securities Trading Center. A unit on the first to fourth floors of a building.

This news was immediately reprinted by people from Asia to Europe and the United States. For a while, people felt that this guy would definitely lose all his money.

This island native named Mr. Shigemoto named his digital currency trading center the First Digital Currency Trading Center. The actual controller of the trading center is an offshore company, Xiaoniao Holdings Co., Ltd.

On the day of the opening, more than a dozen digital currencies appeared on the electronic screen, and the transaction volume that day was 20 US dollars. But this transaction volume is not enough for rent, right?

Many reporters appeared here, and some of them set up cameras. When they saw the transactions on the screen, they were surprised that someone had spent US$20 just to buy these numbers.

When the video was broadcast on major media around the world, and when people discovered that there were actually people buying digital currencies, some people started to get interested.

Unlike other currencies, this kind of borderless currency has no supervision, so it is a place outside the law. Moreover, according to reports, there are only less than 2000 million of these currencies. For those dozen currencies, there are only [-] million. Less than [-] million in the world?

The three keywords of scarcity, no supervision, and a lawless place appeared in their minds, and this thing can be done.

The earliest people to accept this information were Silicon Valley. People here have already begun to take action. They began to calculate the gains and losses and costs, and found that apart from hardware, the big problem is electricity. It is really electricity, and it requires a lot of electricity.

Some people began to have a wrong idea, and they began to use the power in their hands to seek personal gain.

The director of the Computing Management Center of a university in North America also accepted the feasibility of this currency and began to use the advantages of his own computing center to implant more than a dozen kinds of software into the supercomputing center.

His gains were huge, but it was just a matter of the electricity bill?It was a small matter. As the director of the management center, he could just apply for a few more projects.

There are also people who have created a large number of Trojan horses to control a large number of 'broilers'. They write programs to secretly transport these 'broilers' when they are idle.

Many computers originally have very high configurations and very fast computing speeds, but when used, they feel stuck.

This kind of thing is slowly appearing and expanding around the world. They say that their actions are to utilize the excess computing power and prevent the waste of resources.

Li Bu, as the world's largest broadband provider, wants to read these things very easily. As long as he wants to, he can read them in most places around the world as long as he has access to the Internet.