It has been halved again. Is there anyone still in Beijing?

24-04-19 17:50

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Original title: 《Another halving, is there anyone in Beijing? 》

Original source: All is air

Unlike other industries, the cycle of the Crypto industry is determined by the block height, just like the Olympics and the World Cup, every four years.

The first Bitcoin halving #210,000 block height

$12 2012-11-28

Coincidentally, every time Bitcoin halved, I was lucky enough to be called to attend the party. At that time, I was still a Web2 practitioner, and I looked down on these things that were all air. At that time, the Crypto industry was very poor and could not afford to rent expensive venues. Under the dim lights, the most joyful loser later became a super boss.

Ten years ago, I had 100,000 fans on Xueqiu. My fans were all leeks who were keen on speculating in A-shares. The bosses in the Crypto industry all tried to please me, an Internet celebrity. I remember that on the fifth day of the first lunar month in 2014, I sent out red envelopes of 5 big cakes on Xueqiu. It was considered a small contribution to the promotion of big cakes. In order to thank us, the sponsor boss booked the Pure K on Gongti West Road and organized us to sing together. That day, I met Yijie for the first time. Even after many years, Yijie still remembered that she had sung K with me.

Second Bitcoin Halving #420,000 Block Height

$649 2016-7-9

The 2016 halving was spent in the office at the time, "Technology Temple". At that time, there were activities almost every day in Technology Temple, and the venue had to be booked a long time in advance. After all, it was an era of mass entrepreneurship and innovation.

Among so many activities, the most impressive ones were BTC Beijing and a resident performance by a talk show startup team. I always think that the talk show people are too noisy and their level is not as good as mine. I worked overtime in Technology Temple at night and was forced to listen to a lot of talk shows. The talk show actors were not very famous. There were Zhou Qimo, Yang Li, and Boss Shi... In short, none of them spoke as well as I did.

Later, when the regulatory authorities came, Boss Shi was still giving a talk show on the stage, and a group of uniformed staff rushed into the Technology Temple and successfully cracked down on this illegal performance organization that did not have a performance license. As someone who works at the Technology Temple, this was really great news, and we were back to peace.

The organizer of BTC Beijing is a foreigner named Woody, who is an absolute Bitcoin Maximalist. His workstation is next to mine, and I often chat with him. He is particularly optimistic about Layer2 based on Bitcoin. He participated in the earliest Bitcoin L2 project. How to describe the popularity of this project? In 2016, the A round of financing raised 55 million US dollars, and the lead investor was Tencent. Yes, you read it right, it is really Tencent. In 2021, it received another 100 million US dollars led by Tether's parent company... The cumulative financing has exceeded 500 million US dollars, but there is still no TGE. This company is called Blockstream, and the L2 it made is called Liquid Network, which can be regarded as a king-level project of that era.

At that time, CCTV particularly liked to report news about Bitcoin, and Woody would be invited to Big Pants to preach to everyone. At that time, Beijing cared about talk shows, not Bitcoin…

The third Bitcoin halving #630,000 block height

$8636 2020-5-11

The subsequent halving parties became more and more grand, and the venues became more and more luxurious. I still remember that on May 11, 2020, Xu Yinglong and Liu Genghua, bosses of Collins Capital, called me to have dinner together at Yunji Siheyuan in Caishikou. At that time, there were many bigwigs in Beijing. I remember that the most dazzling companies on that day were Huobi and PayPal Finance. I hid from the camera from beginning to end, for fear that people would find out that I didn’t have Bitcoin.

Actually, many people don’t know that I had depression at that time. I was a person who was not me in seconds. After I got sick, all I saw was air and stopped updating. Since then, I started to receive treatment. With the help of doctors at Beijing Anding Hospital, I slowly got out of depression and mastered a set of methods to control relapse. About a year after I got sick, I completely got rid of the drugs and felt like I was reborn.

If you have friends who are troubled by mental illness, you can find me. I am willing to share all my treatment experience with you. The key is one sentence: believe in modern medicine. Let me reveal here that the cost of my entire treatment process was less than 600 yuan, and the bulk of the cost was to register a VIP number at the special clinic of Anding Hospital.