Bitcoin crashed?
When Lu Zhou heard the news, he was dumbfounded.
Initially, he planned to use Bitcoin to test if the knife in his hand was fast or not. In the end, the entire Bitcoin market exploded on the spot before he could even make a move.
As for how he found out about this news, it was quite interesting.
Most of the people who suffered losses had to swallow their anger. No matter how angry they were, there was nothing they could do. They couldn't just go to Wall Street, right?
Some of the players who lost money were more interesting. They directly took the high-speed rail and maglev to Jinling. They held a "Return My Hard-Earned Money" banner and directly blocked the entrance of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study.
This commotion didn't scare the noob researchers inside. Many of them even stood by the window to watch the commotion.
After all, the security guards at the institute weren't pushovers. The security captain and his people stood at the entrance. From afar, it looked like a wall. Just the murderous aura alone made the people at the door only dare to pace around outside, not daring to take a step forward.
However, compared to the calm researchers at the institute, the leaders of the park were not so calm. When they heard that the entrance of the Institute for Advanced Study was blocked, they were so scared that they almost had a heart attack and were sent to the ICU.
Almost all of the police cars in the district were dispatched. Those who didn't know would think that there was a large-scale anti-terrorism exercise.
Originally, China's central bank had already issued a document in 2017. Bitcoin was a virtual commodity, which denied its status as a currency. Domestic financial institutions and payment institutions were prohibited from providing tools to use and buy Bitcoin.
This kind of thing that wandered in the gray area was not supported in the first place. Now that they came to cause trouble and made videos, they must be tired of living.
Without any discussion, the police cars arrived at the scene and detained all of the people blocking the entrance. They were taken back to the police station to be registered and questioned one by one where they bought Bitcoin.
Those who bought it from abroad were ignored for the time being. The economic investigation team quickly led a team to search the homes of those who did not have the qualifications to buy Bitcoin.
Then, something even more interesting happened. The economic investigation team suddenly realized that something was wrong. How many of these people didn't f * cking buy Bitcoin?
Especially the ones who were the most aggressive, they couldn't find any traces of Bitcoin transactions even after turning the communication devices in their homes upside down.
The task force team leader realized that something was wrong and immediately reported the news to the higher-ups.
Finally, the people from the State Security Bureau also entered the task force.
At this point, everything finally came to light.
The last time they cleaned up the spy network, there were still a few people who had escaped. After losing contact with North America, they took advantage of the turmoil in the bitcoin market and came back.
Originally, he wanted to make a scene and apply for asylum, which was the paradise in the eyes of immigrants. In the end, the moment he showed his face, he was wiped out. This time, he would most likely spend his life in prison.
Lu Zhou sat in his living room and listened to Director Li's story. He shook his head and spoke.
"These people are crazy."
I'm not the one shorting Bitcoin, so what's the point of protesting against me?
If you have the ability, go smash Wall Street!
He really couldn't figure out how these people's brains worked. Why would they put this big pot on his head?
"You're lucky." Director Li took a sip of tea and said with a smile, "You haven't seen the owners who smashed the sales department because the price of the building next door was reduced. Those who know how to play Bitcoin are at least a bit cultured. Pulling a banner and writing a poster is kind of nice, but it's troublesome for your work. "
Lu Zhou: "It's not troublesome for us, but it's troublesome for you guys."
"Don't mention this kind of trivial matter." Director Li smiled and waved his hand. He then said, "You don't know how ugly Vergas's expression was at the Asia-Pacific Network Information Security Summit that ended in Shanghai yesterday."
"Vergas?"
Lu Zhou frowned. He couldn't remember where he had heard of this name.
"I almost forgot that you don't care about this … Vergas is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission." Director Li said with a smile, "You should understand."
The Federal Communications Commission was directly responsible to Congress, and Congress, especially the Senate, represented the interests of the big capitalists.
Obviously, on the issue of communication security, Congress had a serious disagreement with the White House. Under the premise that the White House had not yet expressed its position on the Network Information Security Summit, Congress had already sent people to attend through its own procedures.
As for the reason, it was obvious. The poor performance of the US stock market scared everyone.
After all, a certain president said that if the US stock market plummeted, the president should fly to the sun on a rocket.
Although Congress did not tie the president to a rocket to the sun, at this point, it was already quite restrained not to fall out.
"But to be honest, although digital currencies are unregulated and unpopular, as an attempt to decentralize finance, Bitcoin's collapse so quickly may not be a good thing for us."
Lu Zhou took a sip of coffee and casually replied, "Oh yeah?"
"Economic globalization is the general trend, but the paradox is that when our international society has completed the transition from a two-polar world to a multi-level world, the monetary system of the international society has not changed since World War II, except for changing the collateral from precious metals to national credit.
"Not only that, but Keynesian economics has never been out of date. Developed countries only need to use a very simple method to export their own inflation to underdeveloped countries and let others bear the cost of prosperity.
"If you want to end this unequal exploitation, there must be a powerful world central bank that sets monetary policy for the global economy as a whole. Or there must be a world currency that is universal, reliable, and not subject to the interference of central banks' monetary policies. It must be self-regulated by the laws of the market, and central banks can buy it freely as a hedge. "
From the perspective of time, human history was a process of decentralization. The only difference was whether this process was completed in intense conflict or a gradual process of gradual change.
In 1994, Kevin Kelly used a bee colony as an example in his book Out of Control. He proposed a distributed structure, which was probably the most intuitive embodiment of this spirit.
Unfortunately, whether it was Bitcoin or other digital currencies, although they continued this spirit, they were not able to fully realize it.
There wasn't anything that existed in reality as a guarantee. There wasn't even a credit entity. To put it bluntly, it was just a relatively difficult mathematical game. Therefore, after the birth of the quantum computer, it was easily exposed.
Perhaps a digital currency guaranteed by a strong credit entity would be more reliable. But then again, the characteristic of digital currencies was that they were not controlled by mainstream economies. Could a digital currency guaranteed by a credit entity still be considered a digital currency?
This was quite a contradictory question.
Lu Zhou didn't know much about economics. In contrast, Chen Yushan and his sister were experts. Therefore, they just quietly watched him talk and didn't say anything.
Director Li seemed to be tired of talking, so he finally stopped for a while. He picked up the teacup from the table and took a sip to moisten his throat.
However, just when Lu Zhou thought that he would change the topic, the old man suddenly said, "Do you think there is a possibility?"
Lu Zhou: "What possibility?"
"Generating a digital currency based on quantum encryption technology through quantum algorithms?"
For some reason, when Director Li said this, the atmosphere in the living room suddenly became a little silent.
Lu Zhou didn't speak. He just looked at him quietly and quietly drank his coffee.
Director Li finally couldn't help but smile awkwardly. He coughed and spoke.
"Why are you looking at me? I'm just curious, I'm just asking … "
Lu Zhou put down the coffee cup in his hand and reached out to pick up the teapot on the coffee table.
"Let me pour you a cup of tea."
Seeing that Lu Zhou was going to pour tea for him, Director Li suddenly waved his hand and spoke.
"No, no, I haven't finished this cup yet, I'll pour myself later."
Lu Zhou: "You're welcome, drink more hot water."
Director Li: "Oh! You're too kind, how can I … Hey, slow down, it's already full … It's spilling! "
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