Shortly after the year, the total network operating speed of the Bitcoin network once reached 100ghash/s, but not long after, it instantly dropped back to around 70g and fluctuated, and has since stabilized around this level.
At this time, we have fully entered the era of graphics card mining. The previous CPU mining has been completely eliminated. The mining income of a well-configured computer is less than one-tenth or even one-twentieth of graphics card mining. I can't even make back the electricity bill.
When designing the mining mechanism, a lot of calculations are required, and the impact of a lot of calculations on the hardware is reflected in heat generation. Whether it is a CPU or a graphics card, the chip must consume a lot of power when running at high speed.
In the early days of the Bitcoin network, its value had a lot to do with the electricity consumed. This was equivalent to the effort put in by miners, and its value had to be at least higher than the electricity bill they paid to be accepted.
Of course, as more and more people join the Bitcoin network, the value of Bitcoin begins to break away from this causal relationship. Now the price of Bitcoin is close to one dollar. As more and more media report, attention There are also more and more people using Bitcoin, which is the main reason for the rapid appreciation of Bitcoin.
At present, Bitcoin mining has entered the era of mining pool mining.
The Bitcoin mining pool is a mining center. The mining pool collects many scattered computing power and combines it into one, thereby reducing the difficulty of mining Bitcoin. In other words, the number of Bitcoins mined in this way is The probability will be greatly improved.
Then, the mining pool will distribute the mined Bitcoins according to the proportion of computing power contributed by the miners. This mechanism is similar to raising funds for investment and then paying dividends, except that the "funds" concentrated in the mining pool center are everyone's computing power, and the dividends are Bitcoins.
In the eyes of miners, computing power is money, and they do it this way. You can quickly realize the computing power you have and sell it for money.
According to statistics, the current mining computing power of Bitcoin mining pools has reached 10,000mhash/s, accounting for a considerable proportion of the total network.
And. It can be expected that the main force in mining in the future will be mining pools. If they mine alone, the probability of mining Bitcoin is extremely slim.
The overall development of the Bitcoin community is also very smooth. With Bitcoin as the center, many derivative products and services have emerged. Corresponding Bitcoin exchanges have been established around the world, but the largest exchange is still a trading website called mtgox. Basically, the price of Bitcoin is based on it, and the prices of other websites around the world follow it. Make waves.
In addition to Bitcoin trading sites. Bitcoin futures and Bitcoin stock websites have also appeared.
Just a few days ago, the first short-selling transaction was conducted on a newly established futures website. This means that Bitcoin futures have officially started, and from now on, everyone will be able to short-sell Bitcoin.
At the same time, a stock trading website called glbse also appeared in front of everyone. This is a dedicated Bitcoin stock trading website where everyone can issue shares and others can buy them using Bitcoin.
Prior to this, all individual stocks were traded on the Bitcoin forum.
This is a free market, glbse is only responsible for confirming the identity of the issuer. It only proves that this person actually exists, and then he has the right to issue stocks.
Everyone¡¯s purpose of issuing stocks is different. Some say they want to buy mining machines for mining, raise funds, and distribute the mined Bitcoins as dividends, while others say they want to buy mining machines for mining, raise funds, and distribute the mined Bitcoins as dividends. Then he said that he had a very profitable business and also came to IPO.
In real life, if you want to issue stocks, you can only do it on the stock exchange, and it needs to go through strict review. The issuer cannot be an individual, but must be a company.
In the world of Bitcoin, this restriction does not exist. Any individual can issue it, as long as you can gain the trust of others, that is, the holders of Bitcoin believe that you can bring them returns.
?Obviously, this risk is very high, and some people are likely to run away with the funds raised. Just as someone set up an investment fund before, promising to many people that they would invest in Bitcoin-related projects with extremely high rates of return, but in the end, many such investment funds proved to be scams.
In the early days of the development of the Bitcoin community, everything was primitive, just like when the stock and securities trading markets first appeared. All mechanisms were incomplete and could easily be taken advantage of by dishonest people.
In the early Bitcoin community, there was a high degree of trust between each other. Everyone attached great importance to their reputation in the community. Basically, most of the trading activities were based on mutual trust., on the basis of observing ethics.
In the early days, Bitcoin was not very valuable and had relatively few users, so there were no problems.
But in the later stages, many problems in the Bitcoin community gradually emerged.
Because Bitcoin itself has a very high degree of anonymity, it naturally protects users from theft, money laundering and fraud.
As the price of Bitcoin continues to rise, some hacking and fraud incidents have gradually appeared since this year.
Some people have invaded the trading website server and stolen the Bitcoins in the website wallet, and some have committed fraud by raising funds and issuing stocks.
The smooth development of Bitcoin began to change and became difficult, and the price began to fluctuate significantly.
In fact, Lin Hong had already anticipated this situation. It can be said that this is an inevitable law for the development of such things, because it is determined by human nature.
Lin Hong did not interfere with these foods. Bitcoin has embarked on its own development path. Any bumps and resistances are what it must face in its growth process. The repetition now is for a more violent rise in the future.
Since Lin Hong last announced the integration plan between Bit Messenger and Bitcoin, someone in the open source community has already started work in this area.
Someone has developed another client that integrates some functions of Bit Messenger into the Bitcoin wallet client, but it is still a simple prototype and is only being tested internally.
Lin Hong stayed in Dongling City until after the Lantern Festival. After drinking the wedding wine of his senior brother Zhang Cheng, he returned to the company headquarters in Shanghai.
In the office, Zhang Jin is reporting work to him.
"Mr. Lin, we have been in contact with most domestic game development companies in the past few days. Some of them are interested in selling. I have selected three relatively powerful ones. If we want to enter the game field, we will acquire one or several of them. Home is the fastest and most effective way to break into this industry.¡±
Years ago, Lin Hong had talked about this matter with Zhang Jin.
Sansehuo Company has been accumulated for such a long time and has basically been in the state of internal research and development. Except for the linx system, it has not yet had a product for society, and linx is open source and cannot bring any profits to the company for the time being.
Lin Hong believes that by this year, Sansehuo Company should be able to enter the stage of making efforts. On the one hand, it will commercialize some of its research and development results, and on the other hand, it will begin to expand rapidly and no longer be as conservative as before.
The first areas to expand at present are manufacturing and gaming.
Lin Hong himself is a game enthusiast. When he first came into contact with computers, he had the experience of staying up all night playing games. Later, although he was busier, when new games appeared, he would still find time to play them, but it was very difficult. Play less and play longer. Mainly because these games are too simple for him, or his operations are too abnormal and beyond the scope of ordinary players.
His favorite game production company is Blizzard in the United States. This company has produced heavyweight historical masterpieces such as "Warcraft", "StarCraft", and "Diablo", and every game has evolved in the game. A milestone in history.
¡°It¡¯s a pity that Lin Hong¡¯s previous intention to entrust Phyllis to invest in Blizzard was not realized.
At present, Blizzard has become a giant, the leading company in the game, and it is impossible for him to invest or acquire it.
After much deliberation, Lin Hong finally decided to let Sansehuo Company do it himself.
He believes that with Lin Xiaoxing, Sansehuo Company will sooner or later surpass Blizzard in this regard and become the most popular game company in the world.
Lin Hong¡¯s plan to make games was not all for Lin Xiaoxing. In fact, he had already considered this idea when the Super Brain system came out.
For human society, games have always been indispensable. Before the birth of computer games, people also had many games in their lives, such as hunting, playing cards, sports, etc. These are games.
The history of video games is even longer than the history of computers. The birth of the Linux system was also written by researchers at Bell Labs for playing games.
Games can not only be used for entertainment, but also for learning. The game products Lin Hong plans to develop will not be limited to the existing game types. If everything goes well, perhaps at some point in the future, he will combine the game and the ultra-brain system to form an organic whole.
ForestHong's focus is still on the super brain system.
The purpose of expanding the manufacturing department is also to further develop the Ultrain system and build Ultrain hardware in batches.
? 3D printing technology is a high-tech technology with a very high technical content. Even if they now master the core technology, they do not have the corresponding materials and equipment to build it.
However, domestic development in this area lags far behind the developed Western world. If Lin Hong wants to put this technology into application as soon as possible, he must start from the bottom.
Lin Hong took the information handed to him by Zhang Jin, browsed it for a while, and finally said: "These three companies are all good. If possible, buy them all. Then they will be reorganized and merged into the same company."
What surprised him was that he actually saw Gu Wei's company in the information.
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