Most of the people who make up this world are unknown people. They have not been part of the mainstream force of the times from the beginning. Therefore, their behavior is extremely reckless, they often fight and fight when they are angry. Their slogans are "One coin, one young model" and "One coin, one villa", and their belief is "Keeping money is like being a widow".
The traditional Internet, financial, and blockchain circles think this is a loser's world, but these people have their eyes set above their heads, are pretentious, and are extremely rebellious. They are not willing to move around in the territory drawn by BAT. In their eyes, Bitcoin, a gray corner that cannot be covered by the law, is just when the wind rises from Qingping.
The pattern is undecided, and it is difficult to distinguish between true and false. In ten years of currency circles, wealth is unlimited. No matter whether the currency rises or falls, there are still infinite possibilities. This is the world of Bitcoin.
The most mysterious figure in the history of Chinese Bitcoin: Roasted Cat
When talking about Bitcoin, we must talk about roasted cats.
Where did the roasted cat go? This is the biggest mystery in China’s Bitcoin circle.
Just like the Bitcoin world is looking for Satoshi Nakamoto, many people in the Chinese Bitcoin circle are searching for "roasted cat".
The real name of Fried Cat is Jiang Xinyu. He was admitted to the Youth Class of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2001. He is a liberal and the forum ID Friedcat, literally translated as Fried Cat.
She likes to wear slippers and dress casually, and often hangs out in Nanshan Coast City.
He was the first person in the Chinese Bitcoin circle to successfully launch an ICO project, and was also one of the earliest technical geniuses in China to manufacture Asic mining machines. As early as 2013, he had a net worth of over 100 million and held 20% of the computing power of the entire network. At that time, Beijing Avalon’s “Pumpkin Zhang” poses no threat, the butterfly mining machine has not yet been shipped, and Wu Jihan’s “Ant Mining Machine” is still in preparation.
However, from the end of 2014 to the beginning of 2015, Roast Cat, a great figure in the currency circle, suddenly lost contact.
There are many rumors about Roast Cat's disappearance. The biggest rumor is that he funded a liberal organization and then disappeared.
However, this information has not yet been confirmed, and even Lightning and Ruixi, employees of the Roasted Cat Company, could not tell clearly.
The last time Roast Cat appeared in public was on August 2, 2014, when Roast Cat Company held the "Million T Computing Power Era" offline salon. Participants include Yang Linke, founder of Bitcoin China, Wu Gang, founder of Bitcoin One Wallet, Luo Jinhai, founder of BiXu.com, etc.
The scene that day was still clear. The layout of the venue was very low, and even the background board was not leveled. The people present were also very casual, sitting sparsely in all directions. When introducing the grilled cat, there was a thin boy with single eyelids, wearing a pair of slippers, with a pale face. He walked onto the stage with an expression on his face and started talking about data without even introducing himself... This is the legendary roast cat.
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Roast Cat is a person who cannot be bypassed in the history of Bitcoin. He rises suddenly and disappears suddenly. He made a group of people rich, but also cheated a group of people (including Li Xiaolai).
He is not only a hero in the PoW world, but also the initiator of "computing power centralization".
Why do we talk about roasted cats? Compared with the myth of Bitcoin’s sudden wealth, we must also see the tragedy in the currency circle.
There are countless people like Roasted Mao who have been brilliant in the currency circle but have no news in the end.
But when everyone thought that roasted cats would never appear again. On August 4, 2017, there were 5 transfer records in 2 wallet accounts of Roast Cat (with a total income of 74,715 BTC), and a total of 17,597 BTC were transferred out.
Who controls Roast Cat’s wallet? Why he disappeared from the public remains a mystery.
2009~2010: Bitcoin’s “Knotting” Era
One person was mentioned above, Wu Gang, the founder of Yiqianqian. He is now the founder of Bixin and is known as the "President" by people in the world.
Most people in the currency circle remember that his name is "Xingkong" and he belongs to the ancient god of the currency circle, also known as the "Gandalf" of the Bitcoin world. As early as 2009~2010, Xingkong, who was concerned about P2P technology, hid in the company and secretly mined more than 8,000 Bitcoins. Of course, after leaving his job, these coins have disappeared into the dust of history.
Whenever Xingkong meets someone in the cryptocurrency circle, he always says, come to our company and give 1% of the shares. He used this slogan to gather many early elites in the bitcoin circle, including Zonghengsihai (founder of p2pbucks), Super Jun, Sun Xiaoxiao, Daxiong, Xiong Er, etc., these people are all very personal figures in the Bitcoin circle. By 2018, many of them are princes.
The earliest Bitcoin players had something to do with Xingkong. Xingkong was one of the investors in the Avalon mining machine generation of Dr. Zhang Nangeng of Beihang University. Zhao Dong, who is now the most influential person in the Bitcoin circle, was also introduced to the cryptocurrency circle by Xingkong. He and Xie Jian both participated in the roasted cat stock issued in 2012.
Wu Gang and Chaojun said from the bottom of their hearts: "I have invested in almost all the projects that can be invested in the Bitcoin industry, and most of them are losses. However, as long as there are projects that make the community better, I am willing to try it." Try it. If it works, the rewards will be huge; if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter, it will protect the community from lightning.”
From the very beginning of "Knotting Notes" to today's leading investor in the cryptocurrency industry, he is a very typical Bitcoin believer. It is precisely such a loyal fan that he has obtained hundreds of times returns from the Bitcoin world.
Beihang Dr. Zhang Nangeng’s Avalon mining machine
The wild years of Bitcoin in 2011~2012
In the Bitcoin world in 2011, most Bitcoin enthusiasts worked independently, unorganized and undisciplined, with technology enthusiasts accounting for the majority. They met to discuss mining and future prospects in some QQ groups, the most famous of which was the "Peace Hotel" "The QQ group contains Changchai, Zhao Dong, Sihai, Mo Buyi, Xingkong, Prince Gong, etc., but now this group can't be found.
In addition to Xingkong, Babbitt website also accumulated many users in the early days as its base camp. In 2011, Changchai (Liu Zhipeng), QQagent (Wu Jihan), and Lao Duan (Duan Hongbin) were the first to start it.
Chang Chai is a well-known emerging writer in the science fiction circle and the founder of Bytom. QQagent later made a lot of money by building Antminer and has now become a big boss in the industry. Lao Duan later criticized Bitcoin and promoted altcoins, which attracted a lot of criticism. Considered by the currency circle as a "rebellion in the Bitcoin world", he has basically stayed away from the currency circle now.
We don’t need to say more about the significance of Babbitt to the currency circle. Almost all evangelists in the Bitcoin circle will go to Babbitt to publish articles. As the webmaster, Chang Chai has an extremely tenacious will. If we talk about who has made the greatest contribution to the Bitcoin world, it is not the big guys who speculate in the currency, but the nurturers of the currency ecosystem. Those people claim to have earned thousands of dollars. Have you ever thanked these evangelists when it was times tens of thousands?
2014~2016 The sad years of the currency circle
On December 5, 2013, the People's Bank of China and five other ministries and commissions issued the "Notice on Preventing Bitcoin Risks."
From this day on, Bitcoin began to officially enter the downward channel.
Many Bitcoin startups are struggling, and a large number of entrepreneurs have left the circle.
When Bitcoin was trading at 4,500, Bitcoin entrepreneurs gathered together to play skewers.
When the price of Bitcoin is 3,500, you can go north to Shenzhen and Hangzhou to find a group of people to hang out with.
When Bitcoin was in the market in 2000, many Bitcoin entrepreneurs began to sell coins to make a living.
When Bitcoin was trading at 900, no one talked about Bitcoin anymore.
Thousands of horses and horses were silent, and there was no light.
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This is what "Wan Fangzhong" who was active in the Guangzhou currency circle said in 2014: The so-called wealth myth is just chicken soup in the adult world. There are only jokes in the currency circle, not myths. The big guys will tell you that you made tens of millions, but they won’t tell you that you lost nothing when you speculated in coins. Compared with the myth of sudden wealth, I see more cruelty in the currency market.
In May 2014, Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, came to China to spread his Ethereum philosophy. I still remember the scene at that time. Some people were drowsy after listening to it, while others (Huang Jian, Zhao Dong, etc.) were pulling the strings on the side. Few people really cared about what Vitalik said. In the group photo that was later circulated on the Internet, Vitalik was hiding in the fourth place on the right side of the back row, and his small face was partially blocked by Li Yingfei of Antminer and Yang Jianjun of Bitcoin International.
From 2017 to 2018, the currency circle is no longer the original currency circle.
During the three-year cold winter of 2014 to 2016, many companies that were pioneers in exploring various applications, from hardware wallets to ATM machines, from e-commerce to third-party payments, went bankrupt.
Once ideal, full of bitterness, this is the reality of Bitcoin’s barbaric era.
Since 2015, attention to Bitcoin has gradually shifted to blockchain, and some traditional institutions have begun to think about Bitcoin’s underlying technology, blockchain.
In 2016, everything seemed to be getting better. The capital circle and the financial world expressed a feeling of being late to the blockchain.
It was during this period that two major factions, the chain circle and the currency circle, were formed in the cryptocurrency world. As someone said: The chain circle is like the Jingyi sect of the Beggar Clan, with high-end talents, who only focus on technology, and despise the hype and profit theory of the currency circle; while people in the currency circle despise the poverty of the chain circle.
The “preacher” who should be remembered
Every time Bitcoin skyrockets, there are always some people who come out and tell the world how many times their net worth has doubled, how many billions they have earned, and then boast that they are enjoying themselves all over the world. Of course, the final point is to use your RMB Give it to me, and I will let you double it 100 times, so that you can also become rich and free.
But after the currency price returns, you will find that these myths quickly disappeared. Many of this wave of myths come from the post-90s generation and the VC investment circle.
For the people who eat melons, whoever makes money is their role model, and they never care about the truth behind the "myth". Whoever’s token earns 100 times is worthy of worship without understanding the essence of blockchain technology at all.
Think about it carefully, why do they tell you that they make so much money? Why do they tell you if it is so easy to make money?
In the ecosystem of the currency circle, of course there is no need to reject currency speculation, but apart from these bubbles floating on the surface, there are actually more people who deserve our attention and gratitude.
In 2015, when Bitcoin was at its lowest point, Wanxiang Group held high the banner of "blockchain" and established a blockchain laboratory, which gave the currency circle a shot in the arm. We should thank Xiao Feng and Shen Bo.
A poet who has been doing Bitcoin charity since the beginning.
Wang Fuzhong, who competed with Lang Xianping in "Financial Eyes", found it not easy for an economist to support Bitcoin.
The earliest scavenger in the currency circle, "Bitcoin Cover", is still passed down as a myth.
"Bitcoin, the King of Currencies" was preached on Weibo in 2013.
Bit Yangyang's video interviews were much more famous than Erbao in the early days.
A Martian who became the owner of Baidu Bitcoin Bar in order to spread his ideas.
A "journalism science student" who writes many excellent contents and a "VV sauce who doesn't show off her cuteness".
And Mo Buyi was the first to do BTC123 navigation.
The Bitcoin information website P2PBUCKS is spread all over the world.
There are many others I don’t know who began preaching during that controversial era.
Today, countless experts and celebrities have emerged, weaving magical stories one after another that cannot be found on Baidu.
On March 5, 2018, Sina Technology launched a#Blockchain50column, claiming to bring together experts in both blockchain and economics, including an expert named Chen Sijin.
After the news came out, it caused an uproar in the currency circle, because everyone in the currency circle knows that Chen Sijin has been a "bit hacker" for many years. Sina Technology set him as #blockchain50人, and he is considered to be the industry's biggest joke. , this is the extent of traditional media’s awareness of blockchain.
The currency circle has a strong social ethos, with clear likes and dislikes. This industry has been despised and criticized by countless people, so it is extremely sensitive. The currency circle is not opposed to criticism, but those who are self-righteous criticism, especially those economists who are in name only.
Sometimes, Bitcoin is a touchstone to test a person's ability to think independently and learn.
The most famous Bitcoin hacker is Lang Xianping. When the CEO of BTCC talked to him on a TV show, the most famous saying was: "You give me Bitcoins, but I don't want them." Today, he is so stupid. Give the blockchain conference platform.
There is also a famous Bitcoin hacker named Lao Duan. He was once one of the earliest participants in Bitcoin. After providing platforms for various altcoins, Bitcoin was wiped out. After that, he became a Bitcoin hacker for life. This kind of person is not Not a few, once they don’t get on board, they stand against Bitcoin.
Chen Sijin is also a well-known person in the currency circle with extreme hatred. He has been slapped in the face so many times and still insists on his consistent bearish attitude. This time he actually entered #blockchain50人#, which shocked the people in the currency circle.
There are also Ma Guangyuan and Ye Tan. In 2013, they talked a lot about Bitcoin in "The Threesome". It was obvious that they didn't understand Bitcoin at all. Today, they have begun to show their status as blockchain experts on various occasions.
Wu Xiaobo, who has always been considered to keep up with the times, showed his lack of mathematical logic when facing Bitcoin.
"Xiao Lei's market outlook", which is now very popular in the currency circle, was also a big hit with Bitcoin back then.
The most famous Bitcoin hacker in the media is Caixin reporter Li Xiaoxiao, who later spoke out for Ripple.
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I don’t think Bitcoin is perfect, nor do I think the currency circle has any halo.
On the contrary, Bitcoin has too many imperfections, and there are also many shameful things in the currency circle.
What this circle needs is criticism rather than praise, but all criticism should be based on understanding.
Conclusion
Bitcoin: I have no enemies
The ten years of Bitcoin have been a decade full of controversy and a decade of wild growth.