Zhihu × rhythm co-produced: "crazy bitcoin" salt selected column
This column is jointly produced by zhihu and beat BlockBeats. After reading these 20 stories, it's not too late to get into bitcoin
Bitcoin appears to be experiencing a crisis of confidence.
The economic crisis that marked the end of an economic cycle was so widespread that even bitcoin, known as "digital gold," followed, losing 40 percent of its value in 24 hours, the worst 24 hours in its 11-year history, as oil and stocks tumbled. In a year when bitcoin output has halved in four years, people who had high hopes for this year's fortunes are facing a devastating blow not just to assets but to confidence in the bitcoin wealth story.
Weibo out on is of course in the "currency crash" entry, have countless how many times did the currency because of price volatility on hot search, that this would be tantamount to untold sufferings for industry practitioners to resist collapse, in the eyes of outsiders industry is just a "COINS also fell, just like the stock market."
Everyone has fantasized about getting rich overnight, and bitcoin fulfills that fantasy. In most people's minds, there has never been a simple wealth story like bitcoin. From having no value to $19,000 a coin, the price has become the only tag the outside world knows about bitcoin, rising dozens of times in a year as much as the only information about bitcoin that most people can reach. That's why every time bitcoin plunges, the term "ponzi scheme" is never absent.
The emergence of a new technology cannot bring only one side of feedback, just like the technology in "black mirror", every technology that seems innovative and new to us will always trigger a side of human nature that we have never found.
That's what happens with bitcoin.
The born out of the financial crisis in 2008, is not endorsed by sovereign credit encryption currency, price is just one of many labels, behind the wealth of the well-known story, also left a lot of people, tells the story of a lot of things, it can create a single quarterly profit of $1.1 billion a unicorn company, it can let the police admitted that use the currency case is the century of the most difficult to solve, it can make a strong currency area has 2.2 billion Facebook users began to explore such as encryption, it also can let a person crazy to use COINS to travel around the world.
Bitcoin, and the industry it has created, is changing the world bit by bit, bright and dark.
On April 1st, in the midst of an epidemic, an economic crisis and a global panic,Zhihu co-produces a series of columns titled "crazy bitcoin: the untold story behind wealth" with BlockBeats", which records the emergence of bitcoin and the industry from the 2008 economic crisis in the past 10 years to create a legend. These stories have both glory and desolation, marveling at the power of bitcoin and blockchain, and lamenting the weakness of human nature that cannot be controlled.
"Crazy bitcoin: the untold story behind wealth" will be divided into four chapters, each with four or five stories, to let you understand the changes brought by bitcoin from various perspectives:
Technology: what is the use of bitcoin?
Payment properties of bitcoin: he travels the world alone in bitcoin
Blockchain application: in the blockchain world, there is a cat that can sell for 1.2 million yuan
Dollar tokens: users' most important safe haven asset may be moving the market
Decentralization: I use bitcoin to pay for adult website videos
Private key: 100 meters underground, containing $10 billion in bitcoin
Policy: is bitcoin recognized?
Bitcoin mining: from obsolete to non-obsolete industries, the daily lives of these bitcoin miners
Mining companies: unicorns can also split up, seize power and Sue in order to go public
Next core technology: why did Facebook's CEO talk about China at the hearing?
The two sides of bitcoin
Bitcoin crime: husband kidnapped for 30,000 bitcoins
The financial crisis and bitcoin: how do I survive with bitcoin in venezuela?
High IQ crime: if that node plays by the rules, I won't lose money
Bizarre death: I gave him 300 bitcoins and he jumped out of a building
Zero sum: I entered at the peak of bitcoin
People: those who have influenced the blockchain industry
Ethereum founder: he's the one who really made bitcoin $20,000
Wu jihan: the guy who split bitcoin single-handedly after graduating from Peking University
EOS founder BM: are the people who once stood up to satoshi nakamoto genius or not?
Satoshi nakamoto: they were once thought to be the founders of bitcoin. What happened to them?
Pavel Durov: a gathering place for "room N"
The Microsoft engineer's blockchain journey: bankrupt, cheated, taken off the shelf, but he has believers
The father of antivirus: from the globally renowned antivirus software to a bitcoin enthusiast running for President
Today, April 1, "bitcoin payment properties: he travels the world alone with bitcoin" and "blockchain application: in the blockchain world, there is a cat that can sell 1.2 million" two stories have been online, you can search "crazy bitcoin" in the salt column of zhihu to read the column. Next, the series will be updated every Friday with a weekly story that takes you through the people and events that you thought were far away from you, but that might affect our future in another way.
The year 2020 will be tough for everyone. The word magic may no longer define what we see and hear every day. Ten years after the birth of bitcoin, the year also had a disappointing start for us. In a sense, it was also the stage summary of bitcoin.
Twenty articles, twenty true stories, take you through this decade of people and things, you may be interested, you may still not believe in bitcoin, but there is always a story that will make you sigh, the original thing you touched, actually related to bitcoin.
After 20 stories, the topic of bitcoin will never end. Life goes on. There will always be new people with new stories to influence the future.
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