Therefore, Bitcoin was actually a very unfair thing. If you joined early, then you could get unimaginable benefits at the smallest cost.
If you joined late, you would have to pay an unimaginable price.
By 2021, there were already countless professional Bitcoin miners in operation, and these miners had undergone many generations of evolution.
In the beginning, Bitcoin was calculated with ordinary computers, which was mining.
Later, as Bitcoin became more and more difficult to mine, people began to replace the CPU of the computer. After all, a stronger CPU could perform more calculations per second, and the mining efficiency would be higher.
However, the professional miners soon discovered that the CPU wasn't suitable for mining, because the CPU could perform more difficult calculations, and not simple calculations like this.
On the contrary, the graphics processor, which was the graphics card, was very suitable for mining because the function of the graphics card was to perform a lot of repetitive calculations, which was the ability needed to mine Bitcoin.
At the same price, the mining power of a graphics card was 10 times that of a CPU, so the second generation of miners began to use graphics cards as the core of mining calculations.
After that, every generation of miners used graphics cards to calculate, which led to a large number of miners began to buy graphics cards on the market, and then further led to the price of graphics cards skyrocketing, so that the price of a graphics card rose to an unimaginable level.
For example, the computer that the author is using, he spent 2900 to buy a 5700 graphics card. As a result, the price of the graphics card had risen to 8500 yuan, and it was still out of stock. This was all the credit of the crazy miners.
Ahem, let's get back to the topic. This miner who dug up 36000 special solutions was naturally our Musk. After he uploaded the post, he began to mine directly.
After all, the purpose of his copying of Bitcoin, to put it bluntly, was to save a batch of Bitcoin for himself. When he became popular, he could sell it to make money.
In addition, he planned to operate a company like a Bitcoin exchange in the future, as a middleman of Bitcoin transactions to earn the price difference.
It was just that Musk himself did not expect the mining speed to be so terrifying. He mined 1.8 million Bitcoins in seven days, which made him a little worried. Was he a little whimsical?
However, as time went by, the difficulty of Bitcoin mining became higher and higher. After a month, according to the data displayed in the background, there were more than 120 miners in the world. Among them, he mined the most. So far, he had mined more than 2.4 million Bitcoins.
The second was the third miner, who had mined about 300,000 Bitcoins.
This person was the same as Musk. After knowing the existence of Bitcoin, he started to mine non-stop. His computer didn't stop working.
However, because he joined on the 14th day, his mining speed was far slower than before. He only mined 300,000 Bitcoins in half a month, but this was enough to brag for a lifetime.
After all, with the computer he was currently using, if he was in 2020, even if he was given 30 years, he would not be able to mine a single Bitcoin!
After three months, the earth's time entered 2010. Musk found that at this time, about 10 million Bitcoins had been mined out of the 21 million Bitcoins in the world. This speed also shocked Musk. He thought that this number should be reached in 2012. As a result, it only took three months to reach this point.
He looked at all the Bitcoin distribution at the moment and found that except for him and a few pioneers who mined crazily 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 was very reasonable and scientific. It could only be said that the speed of Bitcoin's spread was beyond Musk's imagination.
In fact, this was also the case. For example, in January 2010, a small pizza chain in Silicon Valley announced that they accepted Bitcoin for payment.
This incident was even on the local news. It was said that the owner of this pizza restaurant chain was a senior programmer. That was why his pizza restaurant was opened in Silicon Valley. He also took the initiative to provide a 24-hour delivery service and became the most popular pizza restaurant in Silicon Valley.
Although the pizza in this pizza restaurant was actually not very good, the key was the 24-hour delivery service. For a programmer, being able to eat a hot pizza at 2 am was already a great blessing.
Similarly, the boss was also a senior Bitcoin enthusiast and miner, so the boss publicly advertised in his pizza restaurant that he was willing to accept Bitcoin for pizza. The price was 10,000 Bitcoins per pizza.
As a result, on the first day of opening, no one paid with Bitcoin. It was not that everyone now understood the value of Bitcoin, but even in Silicon Valley, few people knew and understood Bitcoin, let alone owned it. After all, it was still a popular thing among a small group of people.
It was not until the third day that a programmer took out 10,000 Bitcoins to buy a pizza.
"I am the third Bitcoin miner in the world. I now have 400,000 Bitcoins in my hands!" The programmer bragged to the boss while eating pizza.
"That's really amazing!" The boss said with admiration, "I started mining relatively late. Until now, I have only mined a little more than 100 Bitcoins. I can't compare with you!"
"Hehe, fortunately, you accept Bitcoins to spend. Otherwise, I don't know what to do with the 400,000 Bitcoins … I don't mine now, and the 400,000 Bitcoins are in the way in my computer. I don't know what to do!" The programmer complained.
"I think it's pretty good!" The boss smiled and said, "My computer spent a month, and the electricity cost hundreds of dollars, but I only managed to mine a little more than 100 Bitcoins. Now, my pizza, which is only worth 10 dollars, can be exchanged for tens of thousands of Bitcoins. Isn't it a good deal? "
"Sigh, this thing was a little new at the beginning, but it became boring later! Boss, how about I transfer 300,000 Bitcoins to you, and then I will come here for a pizza every day for the next month? "The programmer asked.
Well, as a local tyrant with 400,000 Bitcoins, he really understood Bitcoins. From the beginning, he was curious about Bitcoins, and he couldn't wait to mine every day and watch the number of Bitcoins increase crazily.
Now, Bitcoins had become boring to him, and he even felt that it was a hindrance at home.
It was because the boss had just started mining that he was interested in Bitcoins. The programmer estimated that after a long time, he would no longer be interested in receiving Bitcoins. Maybe after a few days, he would no longer be able to buy pizza with Bitcoins. So, he had to quickly set the amount for 30 days, lest the boss regret it.
"No problem!" The boss said with a smile.
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