"Chairman, according to your instructions, several of our chain stores and food stores in Silicon Valley have fully accepted Bitcoin as a transaction currency. So far, we have absorbed 1.2 million Bitcoins in a week!" Harry Potter reported to Boss Jia in an online conference.
Yes, that's right. Behind the pizza restaurant was the America First Foundation. The owner of the chain store wasn't a Bitcoin miner at all. He was just a worker who had to follow the orders of his superiors to buy all the Bitcoins in the market.
"Very good!" Boss Jia nodded. "Follow our plan. You can take action now!"
"But Chairman, we spent less than 1,000 US dollars to buy these 1.2 million Bitcoins. But our next plan may cost tens of millions of US dollars. Is it really worth it? " Harry Potter said in disbelief. "Even if the price of Bitcoins rose to one US dollar each, it would only be 1.2 million US dollars. Moreover, other than us, no one else in this world would be willing to buy Bitcoins. Why are we doing this? "
"Of course, it's for money!" Boss Jia laughed. "One US dollar each? You lack imagination. Why can't it be ten thousand US dollars each?"
Well, after hearing this, Harry Potter felt that his imagination was indeed worlds apart from Boss Jia's.
Is this the imagination of the world's richest man?
I'm convinced! I'm convinced!
Although Harry Potter thought that Boss Jia was talking nonsense, he didn't know that Boss Jia already had more than six million Bitcoins. In addition to the 1.2 million Bitcoins that Harry Potter had obtained from the pizza restaurant, the remaining 4.8 million Bitcoins were from Boss Jia. He had used his power in various parts of the world to pretend that he was mining alone.
Now, Elon saw that there were more than 30,000 people mining. In fact, 27,000 of them were Boss Jia's people.
In this way, the 2.4 million Bitcoins that Elon had mined himself and the six million Bitcoins in Boss Jia's hands were counted.
Among the ten million Bitcoins that had been mined, 8.4 million Bitcoins belonged to the two of them. The remaining 1.6 million Bitcoins were distributed among the remaining 1,000 people.
However, at this time, Boss Jia and Musk didn't plan to continue mining.
Musk didn't have a professional mining machine. He couldn't mine Bitcoins with just his personal computer.
As for Boss Jia, he was considering the market. If more than half of the Bitcoins were concentrated in his hands, the market wouldn't be able to survive. He had to give up!
Therefore, after half of the Bitcoins were mined, the two big bosses, were finally sent away.
On the other hand, Harry Potter was loyal to Boss Jia's orders.
This order was simple. It was to start promoting Bitcoin, let the world understand Bitcoin, and at the same time, promote the concept of Bitcoin's value.
To put it bluntly, it was to artificially to hype.
Although Harry Potter felt that Boss Jia's orders were purely a waste of money, he still carried them out meticulously.
Therefore, in February 2010, The New York Times published an exclusive interview with Sam's Pizza, a chain pizza restaurant in Silicon Valley. They asked him to talk about Bitcoins.
Although the news didn't occupy a large page, it was still the first report about Bitcoins that appeared in the regular media.
After that, many technology media published articles about Bitcoins one after another. At the same time, they began to describe the interesting group of miners and the special value of Bitcoins as an online currency.
Some media even asked the government to be vigilant about Bitcoins transactions. For example, if there were tax evasion groups that used Bitcoins for transactions, it would be difficult for the government to find the transaction flow and affect tax collection.
Another example was illegal transactions such as using Bitcoins to conduct DP transactions. Even if they were caught on the spot, they couldn't be convicted at all because the Bitcoins they traded couldn't be found and there was no transaction flow. It couldn't be used as evidence of cash transactions.
In addition, there were also many Bitcoin trading products listed. Although these articles were to remind the government to be vigilant against such vicious incidents, many real villains suddenly realized that Bitcoin could be used in such a way after reading this article. They were really impressed!
Therefore, these people began to pay attention to Bitcoins. Although it wasn't much, it was indeed something!
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"God is really helping me. I didn't expect the media's vision to be so high now. They can actually see the value of my Bitcoins!!" Seeing some Bitcoins reports in the media, the most excited person was actually Musk.
After all, these were all helping Bitcoins to promote. If these media didn't promote it, Musk was even prepared to pay for the media to promote it himself.
Because at this moment, the website that Musk really used to make money, the Bitcoins Trading Center, was ready to officially open.
Thanks to the pizza restaurant and several other chain stores that were willing to accept Bitcoins, many people were now willing to believe in the value of Bitcoins. Miners who had a lot of Bitcoins in their hands also hoped to have a channel to sell Bitcoins.
Therefore, the Bitcoins Trading Center website was born.
This was a website set up by Musk, dedicated to trading Bitcoins.
For Bitcoins trading, the most dangerous thing was that there was no security guarantee. After all, trading Bitcoins involved the exchange of Bitcoins and real money. It was inevitable that one party would pay first and the other party would pay later. This was too much of a test of human nature.
The Bitcoins Trading Center was specifically designed to solve this problem. The Trading Center expressed that it was willing to be the middleman of the transaction. Both parties would hand over Bitcoins and cash to it. After it confirmed that there was no mistake, it would hand over the Bitcoins to both parties. The Trading Center only charged 0.5% of the transaction fee as the middleman's profit.
In addition, buyers and sellers could also post the information of selling and buying on the website. At the same time, the website would announce the real-time price of Bitcoins according to the average of the latest transaction prices.
Musk spent a lot of money to build this website. If no one traded on it after it was established, it would be too embarrassing. Now, with the publicity of these news media, the value of Bitcoins would be greatly improved.
February 12, 2010. This was a day worth remembering because Bitcoins were listed on the Bitcoins Trading Center for the first time. An hour later, the first transaction order was completed.
Someone sold his 100 Bitcoins in exchange for 1 USD in cash. As a result, the price of Bitcoins was 1 Bitcoin = 1 US Cent.
This was a number that would make all the Bitcoin speculators in the future drool with envy. One cent could buy one Bitcoin. If they could be reborn, they would definitely buy all these Bitcoins. They would buy as much as they could get!!
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