When posting, Musk originally planned to use his real name directly. After all, he would wear the identity of the founder of Bitcoin in the future. After thinking about it, he still gave up.

Because he thought the name Musk was too famous. As a former founder and a well-known Internet entrepreneur, if someone saw his name and thought it was a conspiracy of a commercial company, it would be very troublesome.

So Musk took out the name in his notebook, gave himself a brand new online name called Ma Cong, and then took out a small account, replaced it with Ma Cong's ID, and then used the identity of an ordinary coder to show his guesswork and sent this post.

As soon as this post was posted, it immediately attracted the attention of many users.

People who can get involved in such professional online forums have different IQ and abilities than ordinary people. Among these people, some people soon realized the meaning of Bitcoin.

Of course, like Musk, there are still no one who thinks that Bitcoin can become an online currency.

They just thought this idea was very novel, so they looked it carefully and left a message.

Some people agree with Musk's idea and think Bitcoin is a very Nie's idea.

But some people think that Musk's idea is to be whimsical. How could someone believe in his value in such a currency that can solve math problems? In the future, it can even reach dozens of dollars per coin!

Well, in Musk's post, he predicted that it would take about 10 years to increase the value of Bitcoin to dozens of dollars per coin... Musk was not lying or deceiving users. He really felt that Bitcoin could rise to this price. As for higher prices, it was impossible. A virtual currency could reach a maximum of dozens of dollars per coin. After all, there were 21 million in total, which was equivalent to giving birth to hundreds of millions of dollars out of thin air. This was impossible.

At the beginning, most people who saw this post either agreed or opposed it, but truly recognized the idea, and were willing to download Musk's program, and then followed the mining process to the miners themselves. They all felt that this kind of post was just a fun in the forum. Over time, it would sink to the bottom of the sea and become a grave in the forum. Perhaps it would take several years before someone was interested in digging a shovel and digging out the grave.

Of course, the most important thing is that this software is a bit complicated to use, which requires some computer settings and consumes a lot of time. Most people are unwilling to waste time on such meaningless things.

But in the end, some people are willing to waste their time, so a week later, the first person finally downloaded the software released by Musk and started mining according to Musk's ideas.

At the same time, this person took a look at the information disclosed by the software and found that there are already 36,000 blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to the algorithm that rewards 50 bitcoins for each block, 1.8 million bitcoins have been born.

He checked the specific information of these 36,000 blocks and found that they were all packaged by a computer. The first blockchain started packaging 7 days ago, which shows that this person dug out 1.8 million Bitcoins in 7 days.

"It only costs 1.8 million in 7 days. This thing is so cheap. How could it be valuable!" The second miner shook his head, and then felt that he was interested in mining, which was too boring. So he uninstalled all the Bitcoin-related programs, and then he never paid attention to any bitcoin-related news.

Until a few years later, he saw news about Bitcoin in newspapers and news.

The second miner left without digging anything, but the third miner appeared almost a few minutes later. The miner was a high school student in the United States and a fan of P2P networks.

The students always have the greatest enthusiasm for those boring things, so when they found that the idea of ​​Bitcoin was really cool, they immediately started mining. It took about three minutes before he used his personal computer to mine his first special solution and obtained his own 50 Bitcoins.

"Strange, it took me three minutes to calculate a special solution, but that person completed 36,000 blocks in 7 days. Even if he kept digging 24 hours a day, the average time was only 16 seconds, so he could dig out a special solution. Why is he so much faster? Is his computer's computing power much stronger than mine?"

"Wouldn't you be mining with a super server?" the high school student murmured to himself.

Being able to ask this question means that although this high school student is qualified in computer technology, his math ability is not good.

The calculation of the special solution of Bitcoin is carried out using hashing operations.

Hash operations sound foggy, but they are indeed very profound to understand. However, you only need to know that the so-called hash operations are actually just a big fortune.

Well, it's a bit too one-sided to say that, but this is only for Bitcoin's operations.

The special solutions of Bitcoin equations are fixed. These special solutions cannot be solved through operations. Instead, they need to use numbers to continuously set them. Each set is set, and the corresponding calculations must be performed through the equation. If the equation can be solved, it means that the special solution is correct.

For ordinary computers in 2010, their CPUs can calculate whether 200 numbers are special solutions per second.

At the beginning, because no special solution was recorded and all special solutions were in the pool, this process was particularly easy.

You can get 4 special solutions in one second, which is equivalent to digging out 200 bitcoins.

However, these 4 special solutions will also be recorded, and these 4 special solutions will not be used to exchange for Bitcoin in the future.

Then the next thing can be imagined. As the special solutions are used more and more, the chances of hitting out the special solutions will become smaller and smaller.

After the first hour, only one special solution can be obtained in one second.

After one day, it takes 10 seconds to calculate a special solution.

After seven days, this time rose to three minutes.
Chapter completed!