Chapter 2040 Bitcoin's first transaction
So Bitcoin is actually a very unfair thing. If you join it early, then you can get the most unimaginable profit at the lowest price.
If you join late, you will have to pay an unimaginable price.
By 2021, countless professional Bitcoin mining machines are already operating, and these mining machines have been undergoing multiple generations of evolution.
In the beginning, Bitcoin was calculated using an ordinary computer, that is, mining.
Later, as Bitcoin became more and more difficult to mine, people began to replace the CPU of their computers. After all, stronger CPUs could perform more operations per second, and the efficiency of mining was higher.
However, those professional miners soon discovered that the CPU is actually not suitable for mining, because the CPU can perform more difficult operations rather than such simple library-like calculations.
On the contrary, a graphics processor, that is, a graphics card, is very suitable for mining, because the function of a graphics card is to perform a lot of repeated operations, and this is exactly the ability required to mine Bitcoin.
At the same price, the mining capacity of a graphics card is 10 times that of a CPU, so the second generation of mining machines have begun to use graphics cards as the core of mining computing.
After that, every generation of mining machines changed, they used graphics cards to calculate, which led to a large number of miners starting to buy graphics cards on the market, and further causing the price of graphics cards to soar, so that the price of a graphics card has risen to an unimaginable level.
For example, the computer that the author Jun is using, and spent 2,900 yuan to buy a 5,700 graphics card. As a result, the graphics card has now increased to 8,500 yuan, and it is still in stock. All of this is the credit of the crazy miners.
Ahem, back to the point, this miner who dug 36,000 special solutions is naturally our Musk. After he uploaded the post, he started mining directly.
After all, his purpose of copying Bitcoin is to put it bluntly that he can save a batch of Bitcoins, and after he becomes popular, he can sell it to make money.
In addition, he plans to run a company like a Bitcoin trading bank in the future to make a profit of the difference as a middleman in Bitcoin trading.
But Musk himself did not expect that the mining speed was so terrifying. He dug out 1.8 million Bitcoins in 7 days, which made him feel a little worried. Is he a little whimsical?
However, as time goes by, the difficulty of mining Bitcoin is getting higher and higher. After a month, according to the data displayed in the background, there are more than 120 miners around the world, among which he himself is the one who mines the most. So far, a total of more than 2.4 million Bitcoins have been mined.
The third miner ranked second, who dug about 300,000 bitcoins.
Like Musk, this person started mining without stopping after knowing the existence of Bitcoin.
However, because he joined on the 14th day, his mining speed was far lower than before. He only dug out 300,000 in half a month, but this is enough to last a lifetime.
After all, with the computer he currently uses, he can’t even poach a Bitcoin if he gives him thirty years!
Three months later, the time on Earth entered 2010. Musk discovered that about 10 million Bitcoins in the world had been mined at this time. This speed scared Musk. He originally thought that this number should have reached in 2012, but it took only three months to reach this point.
He looked at all the Bitcoin distributions at the moment and found that except for him and a few pioneers who were crazy about mining at the beginning, the rest of the Bitcoins were evenly distributed in the hands of more than 30,000 holders around the world. This distribution is very reasonable and scientific. It can only be said that the spread of Bitcoin is so fast that it is beyond Musk's imagination.
In fact, the same is true. For example, in January 2010, a small Silicon Valley-based pizza chain announced that they accepted Bitcoin to pay.
This incident also became local news. It is said that the owner of this chain of pizza restaurants was a veteran programmer who changed careers, so its pizza restaurant was opened in Silicon Valley, and it also actively provided 24-hour takeaway service, becoming the most popular pizza restaurant in Silicon Valley.
Although the pizza tastes not so good at this pizza restaurant, the key is 24-hour takeaway. For programmers, it is already a great happiness to be able to eat hot pizza at 2 a.m.
Similarly, the boss is also a veteran Bitcoin enthusiast and miner, so the boss publicly advertises in his pizza restaurant, expressing his willingness to accept Bitcoin to pay for pizza, which costs 10,000 Bitcoin per pizza.
As a result, on the first day of opening, no one used Bitcoin to pay. It's not that everyone now understands the value of Bitcoin, but even in Silicon Valley, few people know and understand Bitcoin, let alone own this thing. This is still a popular thing in the niche.
It was not until the third day that a programmer took 10,000 bitcoins to buy pizza.
"I am the third miner in the world to mine Bitcoin. I now have 400,000 Bitcoins!" The programmer boasted to the boss while eating pizza.
"That's really amazing!" The boss said with admiration. "I dug it late. I have only dug more than 100 bitcoins so far, and I can't compare with you!"
"Hehe, fortunately, fortunately, you are collecting Bitcoin to consume, otherwise I wouldn't know what the 400,000 Bitcoins are used for... I no longer mine now. Putting these 400,000 Bitcoins in a computer is in a way, and I don't know what to do!" the programmer complained.
"I think it's pretty good!" The boss smiled and said, "My computer took a month, and the electricity bill cost hundreds of dollars, and I only dug out more than 100 bitcoins. Now, I have only $10 worth of pizza, and I have exchanged tens of thousands of bitcoins. Isn't it a good deal?"
"Hey, this thing is a bit fresh at the beginning, but then it's boring! Boss, otherwise I'll transfer 300,000 bitcoins to you, and then I'll come to you every day for a pizza in the next month?" asked the programmer.
Well, as a rich man with 400,000 Bitcoins, he really knows Bitcoin too much. From the beginning, he wanted to mine every day and watch his Bitcoin number rise wildly.
Until now, Bitcoin has become boring for him, and it is still a problem to keep it at home.
It is because the boss just mining that he was interested in Bitcoin. The programmer estimated that after a long time, he was no longer interested in collecting Bitcoin. Perhaps he would not be able to buy pizza with Bitcoin in a few days, so he had to quickly set the amount for 30 days to avoid the boss' remorse.
Chapter completed!