Chapter 1923

When posting, musk originally intended to use his real name directly. After all, the identity of the founder of bitcoin will be worn on his head in the future. After thinking about it, he gave up.

Because he thinks musk is too famous. As the founder of payplay and a well-known network entrepreneur, if someone sees his name and thinks it is a conspiracy of a commercial company, it will be very troublesome.

So musk took out the name in the notebook, gave himself a new network name called ma Cong, then took out his trumpet and replaced it with Ma Cong's ID, and then sent this post with an ordinary code farmer's identity to show his conjecture attitude.

As soon as this post was sent out, it immediately attracted the attention of many users.

People who can mix on such professional online forums are different from ordinary people in terms of IQ and ability. Some of these people soon realized the significance of bitcoin.

Of course, like musk, there are still no people who think bitcoin can become an online currency.

They just thought the idea was novel, read it carefully, and then left a message.

Some people agree with Musk's idea that bitcoin is a verynice idea.

But some people think Musk's idea is whimsical. How can anyone believe in the value of such a currency generated by solving mathematical problems? It can even reach tens of dollars in the future!

Well, in Musk's post, he predicted that in about 10 years, the value of bitcoin will rise to tens of dollars... Musk is not lying or cheating users. He really thinks that bitcoin can rise to this price. As for higher prices, it is impossible. A virtual currency can top the sky with tens of dollars, After all, there are 21 million pieces in total, which is equivalent to generating hundreds of millions of dollars of wealth out of thin air. This is impossible.

At first, most of the people who saw this post either agreed or opposed it, but they really recognized the idea and were willing to download Musk's program. Then they also followed the miners. They all felt that this post was just fun in the forum. Over time, it would sink to the bottom of the sea and become a grave in the forum, Perhaps it will be several years before anyone is interested in digging a shovel to dig out the grave.

Of course, the most important thing is that this software is still a little complex to use. It needs to toss some computer settings and consume a lot of time. Most people are unwilling to waste their time on such meaningless things.

However, some people are still willing to waste their time, so until a week later, the first person finally downloaded the software released by musk and began to mine according to Musk's idea.

At the same time, this person took a look at the information disclosed by the software and found that there are 36000 blocks on the bitcoin blockchain. According to the algorithm of rewarding 50 bitcoins for each block, 1.8 million bitcoins have been born.

He checked the specific information of the 36000 blocks and found that they were packaged by a computer, and the first blockchain was packaged seven days ago, indicating that the man dug up 1.8 million bitcoins in seven days.

"1.8 million pieces in seven days. This thing is too cheap. How can it be valuable!" the second miner shook his head and felt that he was actually interested in mining. It was too boring, so he directly unloaded all bitcoin related programs, and then didn't pay attention to any bitcoin related news.

Until a few years later, he saw the news about bitcoin in newspapers and news.

The second miner left without digging anything, but the third miner appeared almost a few minutes later. The miner is a high school student in the United States and a lover of P2P networks.

Students always have the greatest enthusiasm for those idle things, so when he found that the idea of bitcoin was really cool, he immediately began mining. It took him about three minutes to dig out his first special solution with his personal computer and get his own 50 bitcoins at the same time.

"It's strange that it took me three minutes to calculate a special solution, but the man completed 36000 blocks in seven days. Even if he kept digging 24 hours a day, he could dig a special solution in only 16 seconds on average. How could he be so fast? Is his computer so much better than me?"

"Isn't that mining with super servers?" the high school student said to himself.

Being able to ask this question shows that although the high school student is qualified in computer technology, his mathematical ability is not good.

Bitcoin special solution is calculated by hash operation.

Hash operation sounds like a cloud, and it's really profound to understand, but you just need to know that the so-called hash operation is actually lucky.

Well, that's a little too one-sided, but it's only for the operation of bitcoin.

The special solutions of bitcoin's equations are fixed. In fact, these special solutions cannot be solved by operation. Instead, we need to set numbers one by one. Once each set, we need to make a corresponding calculation through the equation. If we can solve the equation, it means that this special solution is correct.

For the ordinary computer in 2010, its CPU is fully operational and can calculate whether 200 numbers per second are special solutions.

At the beginning, because no special solution was recorded and all special solutions were in the pool, this process was particularly easy.

Four special solutions can be obtained in one second, which is equivalent to digging out 200 bitcoins.

However, these four special solutions will also be recorded, and they will not be able to exchange these four special solutions for bitcoin in the future.

Then the next thing can be imagined. As more and more special solutions are used, the probability of hitting a special solution becomes smaller and smaller if you want to take a chance.

After the first hour, only one special solution can be obtained in a second.

After one day, it takes 10 seconds to calculate a special solution.

Seven days later, the time rose to three minutes.

It is conceivable that with the passage of time, the amount of calculation that needs to be consumed will be more and more huge. In future generations, if ordinary computers are used for calculation, it may take decades to calculate a special solution.