Speaking of Lao Mao, people in the cryptocurrency circle know him to some extent. He was one of the poker masters in the cryptocurrency circle who was once very popular. He started to invest in Bitcoin in 2013 and entered the industry in 2014. He has served as YUNBI COO, ICOINFO CEO, INB Partner, and BigONE CEO. Let's take a look at Lao Mao's legendary career in the cryptocurrency circle.

When he was young, Lao Mao worked as an ordinary clerk in a bureau in Changzhou, Jiangsu. He described his life experience lightly: "I don't want to live a life where I can already see old age. It's terrible to be able to see clearly what life will be like in a few years. If I were there, I can imagine my life in 20 years. At most, I would be promoted to deputy bureau level and get a good salary of about 15,000 a month. Every New Year and holiday, I would be invited back by the bureau to have a condolence meal. I would play chess and cards with a few old men. That's it."

Unwilling to be ordinary, Lao Mao left Changzhou and came to Shanghai, where he worked for a friend in the early days. Later, he also operated two Taobao Tmall stores, accumulating rich experience for his future rise in the ever-changing blockchain industry.

In March 2013, Lao Mao saw director Wang Xiaoshan talking about his experience of buying Bitcoin on Weibo, and learned that Bitcoin could be bought on Taobao in China. Somehow, he felt that this thing was extremely reliable, and immediately bought 20 Bitcoins, using up his only 6,000 yuan savings at the time, and then continued to invest the money he earned every month, leaving only a small part for living expenses. The Bitcoin Lao Mao bought was like a seed planted in his heart, carrying too many of his dreams. These dreams not only include his own dream of financial freedom, but also the belief that Bitcoin will surely achieve monetary freedom.

In 2014, Lao Mao founded the country's first Bitcoin shopping platform "Pineapple Market", and was interviewed by Forbes magazine.

"The cryptocurrency circle was very small at that time, and there were only a few people who could do something, about 100 people, and I knew almost all of them. Everyone came to the BTCC's third anniversary meeting. Later, many of these people became bigwigs, and no one could afford them anymore. At that meeting, I auctioned a football for 15 bitcoins. Zhao Dong took the bid, and it is now in his office."

In 2014, there was another thing that was very important to Lao Mao. In Shanghai, he accepted Qiu Liang's invitation to join Li Xiaolai's Pixiu team as an operator. After Lao Mao met Li Xiaolai, his first suggestion was to spend 200,000 yuan to buy a domain name. Li Xiaolai immediately transferred 200,000 yuan to Lao Mao. Lao Mao felt that Xiaolai was reliable, so he officially joined. In the same year, the Pixiu team was renamed the Yunbi team, Yunbi.com was officially launched, and Lao Mao became the CEO.

This is also the reason why Li Xiaolai has been criticized in the past few months, and Lao Mao has been supporting Li Xiaolai without leaving any room for criticism.

In 2017, two things had an indelible impact on Lao Mao's career in the cryptocurrency circle. First, he initiated the establishment of ICOINFO, and the transaction volume quickly climbed to the global industry-leading level. Second, Lao Mao and Li Xiaolai jointly established INB Coin Capital, invested in more than 30 blockchain projects, and the overall return exceeded ten times, and his wealth skyrocketed.

In addition to actively participating in various blockchain projects, Lao Mao also opened a WeChat public account - Mao Shuo. He said that the original intention of opening this public account was just to write his own life notes, and he had no plan to write industry-related content. However, due to the request of "fans", it eventually became a public account to share the experience and knowledge of the blockchain industry.

Lao Mao admitted that he has not considered the development direction of "Mao Shuo" so far, "I just like it and have a window to speak, which is enough." He also said that he would not turn "Mao Shuo" into a media, because "if it becomes a media, it will become a job, which will be very tiring, and it will deviate from the original intention of saying whatever I want."

Lao Mao has published an article titled "A look at Lao Mao's dark history" on the "Mao Shuo" public account. In the article, Lao Mao responded to some doubts and rumors about himself in a joking manner, and at the same time, he admitted his mistakes without hesitation. To be honest, there are very few people who can do this, but this is also Lao Mao's style of doing things, just as he said before, "Say what you think."

It is this frank character and the spirit of daring to take risks but also willing to work hard that has made Lao Mao the current big boss in the cryptocurrency circle.