Chapter 1286 Bitcoin and WeChat
2011.
"Here are 10,000 Bitcoins." Bai Qing handed a USB drive in his hand to Su Jing.
The USB flash drive contains several textbooks, and after they are combined, it is the private key of Bitcoin.
Since last year, Bai Qing has been starting to collect Bitcoin.
You know, in the future, this will definitely be a hard currency with a price comparable to gold.
But now, people are still discussing whether Bitcoin is a currency or a scam.
The output of Bitcoin is also quite considerable.
Last year, 10,000 bitcoins were just buying a pizza worth $25.
Bai Qing also sent people to the United States to acquire Bitcoin for himself since the end of 2009.
So far, Bai Qing has already mastered nearly 200,000 Bitcoins in his hands.
According to the price before Bai Qing’s rebirth in 2020, this Bitcoin alone is worth $2 billion.
He handed over some of them to Su Jing, and most of them were placed in the safe by him.
Of course, he did not mean to use these Bitcoins. He just regarded them as if his investment failed, he could also bring himself a way out.
By 2011, after more than two years of development, the current scale of A Station has increased a lot compared to the previous acquisition, and has become a force that cannot be ignored in video websites.
It should be said that although Su Jing is still a little immature, she is still a student who graduated from Fudan University and has the ability. In two years, she has also grown up quickly.
Fortunately, Site A is very different from traditional video websites, so it has not been targeted by other video websites. Of course, some small tricks and touches in private are indispensable, but they are all actively resolved.
Hearing Bai Qing's words, Su Jing nodded, then took them and put them away.
It has been five years since the two got married, but both of them tend to enjoy the world of two, so they have never put the matter of their descendants on the agenda.
This made the three elderly people in the family very anxious.
They had been waiting for several years, but weren't they just looking forward to having a grandson to watch and play, but they just didn't have a hurry.
So they nagged Bai Qing and Su Jing a lot.
Fortunately, Bai Qing and Su Jing have always settled in Shanghai, otherwise, just listening to these words to urge children, they would have a calluse in their ears.
"Speaking of this, there are a lot of negative news about your new products in public opinion recently." Su Jing thoughtfully smoothed the wrinkles on Bai Qing's clothes, and at the same time said to Bai Qing, with a look of worry on her face.
At the beginning of this year, Qing Investment officially launched its brand new product - WeChat, which caused an uproar in the entire industry.
Qing Investment has been making plans in different fields in recent years, but never thought that they would enter this kind of communication software project.
Everyone in the industry knows that Qing Investment is the major shareholder of Penguin. With instant messaging software like Penguin, why do they launch their own software?
Could it be that there was a crack between Qing Investment and Penguin?
That would be wonderful.
But only Bai Qing himself knew very well that this was different.
Penguin relies on a software developed by users based on the Internet's China Unicom attributes. In addition to classmates, colleagues, friends and other people, the people in it can also be strange groups such as netizens. Under the cover of Penguin's account, everyone seems to have a clothes that can disguise themselves. If you don't say it, others will not know what your identity is.
And because of its functions such as "file transfer", "video and audio", and "friend group", it also has rich applications in business offices on weekdays.
But WeChat is different. It is a social networking based on the user's phone number. Compared with the open penguin, it is more like a more closed social tool.
A more core difference is that Penguin is a software created based on traditional computer networks. Everything in it carries the shadow of the old Internet era. WeChat is developed based on the smart Internet network of smartphones. The carrier is the mobile phone in the hands of users, representing the characteristics of the smart Internet era, allowing users to communicate and interact at any time and anywhere without having to stick to the existence of computers, realizing "always online" and eliminating the wasting of users' "fragmented time".
In fact, before the development, Bai Qing had no idea. He wanted to expand Penguin and have the functions of WeChat. In this way, he could effectively utilize resources, but he finally gave up this idea.
With the increasing advanced management of penguins, he rarely interferes with the operation of penguins. After all, he is just a shareholder of penguins, not a penguin owner.
Sometimes, eggs cannot be placed in the same basket.
The same is true for products. On the one hand, what is yours truly yours.
On the other hand, when a monopoly is formed in one aspect, it is also a danger for the enterprise.
Whether it is Qing Investment or Penguin, they have grown into domestic Internet giants and are top-notch existences. Their subsidiaries are mixed, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as Internet empires. If the relationship between these two companies is too close, it is obviously not a situation that many people are willing to see.
There are many people who can't sleep.
For this reason, Bai Qing also had a special talk with Brother Xiao Ma. Finally, he persuaded Brother Xiao Ma to develop WeChat by Qing Investment. At the same time, Zhang Dalong was also dug up to serve as the person in charge of the project. For this reason, Qing Investment paid nearly 1/3 of WeChat shares to Penguin, which was regarded as a price of support.
As of now, in less than half a year, its registered users have exceeded 20 million, and most of them are active users. Such data is still growing continuously.
After all, the era of smartphones has arrived.
If at the beginning, people just treated it as a Qing Investment version of the penguin, but its unique "shake" and "search nearby" function conquered the vast majority of users at once. Moreover, relying on the accuracy of the carrier, many people can easily contact each other, and also made many people's ulterior motives maximize their use. They began to do some things that could not be done in reality. Gradually, by spreading rumors, the WeChat software actually had the title of "hooking artifact".
This is also the reason for the various criticisms of WeChat in public opinion during this period...
Chapter completed!