When posting, Musk originally planned to use his real name directly. After all, the identity of the founder of Bitcoin would be worn on his head in the future. But after thinking about it, he gave up.
Because he felt that Musk's name was too famous. As the founder of PayPal, a well-known online entrepreneur, if someone saw his name and thought that this was a conspiracy of a commercial company, it would be very troublesome.
Therefore, Musk took out the name in the notebook and gave himself a new username called Ma Cong. Then, he took out one of his sub-accounts and changed it to Ma Cong's ID. Then, he used the identity of an ordinary programmer to show his conjecture and posted this post.
As soon as this post was posted, it immediately received the attention of many users.
People who could mingle on such a professional online forum were extraordinary in both IQ and ability. Among these people, some of them quickly realized the significance of bitcoin.
Of course, like Musk, there were still people who thought that Bitcoin could become an online currency.
They just felt that this idea was very novel. After reading it carefully, they left comments.
Some people agreed with Musk's idea and felt that Bitcoin was Verynice's idea.
But some people thought that Musk's idea was whimsical. Such a currency that was generated by solving mathematical problems, how could anyone believe its value? It could even reach the level of dozens of dollars in the future!
Well, in Musk's post, he predicted that it would take about 10 years for the value of Bitcoin to rise to dozens of dollars per coin … Musk was not lying, nor was he deceiving users. He really felt that Bitcoin could rise to this price. As for higher, it was impossible. A virtual currency was at most dozens of dollars per coin. After all, there were a total of 21 million coins, which was equivalent to generating hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth out of thin air. This was impossible.
In the beginning, most of the people who saw this post either agreed or disagreed. However, there was no one who truly approved of this idea and was willing to download Musk's program to mine for themselves. They all felt that this kind of post was just a joke on the forum. After a long time, it would sink to the bottom of the sea and become a grave for the forum. Perhaps it would take a few years before someone would be interested in digging up this grave with a shovel.
Of course, the most important thing was that this software was a bit complicated to use. It required some computer settings and consumed a lot of time. Most people were not willing to waste time on such meaningless things.
However, there were still people who were willing to waste their time. After a week, someone finally downloaded Musk's software and began mining according to Musk's idea.
At the same time, this person glanced at the public information of the software and found that there were already 36,000 blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to the algorithm of rewarding 50 Bitcoins per block, 1.8 million Bitcoins had been born.
He checked the specific information of these 36,000 blocks and found that they were all packaged by a computer. The first block chain was packaged seven days ago, which meant that this person had mined 1.8 million bitcoins in seven days.
"1.8 million in seven days? This thing is too cheap. How can it be valuable?" The second digger shook his head. He felt that it was too boring to be interested in mining, so he directly uninstalled all Bitcoin-related programs. After that, he stopped paying attention to any Bitcoin-related news.
It was not until a few years later that he saw news about Bitcoin in newspapers and news.
The second digger left without mining anything, but the third digger appeared almost a few minutes later. This digger was a high school student in the United States and was also a P2P network enthusiast.
Students always had the greatest enthusiasm for those boring things, so when he found that the idea of Bitcoin was really cool, he immediately started mining. It took him about three minutes to use his personal computer to mine his first special solution. At the same time, he got his own 50 Bitcoins.
"Strange, it took me three minutes to calculate a special solution, but that person completed 36,000 blocks in seven days. Even if he kept mining 24 hours a day, it would only take him 16 seconds on average to mine a special solution. How can he be so fast? Is his computer's computing power so much better than mine? "
"Isn't he using a super server to mine?" The high school student said to himself.
Being able to ask this question shows that although this high school student's computer technology is qualified, his mathematical ability is not good.
The calculation of Bitcoin's special solution is carried out in the way of hash operation.
Hashing operation sounded confusing, and it was indeed very profound to understand. However, you only needed to know that the so-called hashing operation was actually just a matter of luck.
Well, this is a bit too one-sided, but this is only for the calculation of Bitcoin.
The special solution of Bitcoin's equation is fixed. These special solutions can't be solved by calculation. Instead, one has to keep using numbers one by one. Each set of numbers has to be calculated through the equation. If the equation can be solved, it means that the special solution is correct.
Using an ordinary computer in 2010, his CPU could calculate about 200 numbers per second to determine whether they were special solutions or not.
In the beginning, because no special solution is recorded, all the special solutions are in the pool, so this process is particularly easy.
In one second, he can get 4 special solutions, which is equivalent to mining 200 Bitcoins.
However, these 4 special solutions will also be recorded, and he can't use these 4 special solutions to exchange for Bitcoins in the future.
Then, the next thing can be imagined. As more and more special solutions are used, the probability of trying to get a special solution by luck becomes smaller and smaller.
After the first hour, only one special solution can be obtained in one second.
After a day, it would take 10 seconds to calculate a special solution.
After seven days, this time rises to three minutes.
It is conceivable that as time passes, the amount of calculation required will become larger and larger. In the future, if an ordinary computer is used to calculate, it may take decades to calculate a special solution.
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