In recent years, there is a word that has appeared frequently in the media and news, and its name is Bitcoin.

Now the ransomware virus about it is raging all over the world, and hackers are demanding to use bitcoin for monetary payments, which makes bitcoin popular all of a sudden.

A lot of people are talking about what the hell is this Bitcoin?

"Someone said, oh, I know what Bitcoin is, it's a speculative thing!"

Some people ask if it's a bubble, a trick, or a new technology that changes the world.

After acquiring Bitcoin, Xi Ming flew back to Yanjiao.

Because of the success of buying bitcoin, he was in a good mood, which can be described as leisurely and leisurely, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a spring breeze, and he strolled around on all floors of the Xiongming Group building.

In the hallway, two employees were walking and discussing papers with them.

Xi Ming walked behind them.

"Do you know Bitcoin?"

"I'd heard that stuff before, and that stuff I thought was a lie, a, a pyramid scheme. ”

"Why do you feel that?"

"I think it's like from ancient times to the present, money is managed and issued by the government, and Bitcoin is something that a few people have made up in the house, playing around, and trading in the game. ”

"Then why do you regret it all the time?"

"Do you know, I was in the era of other companies before, the New Year held a lottery for the New Year, and the third prize was a bitcoin, everyone didn't know what this thing was, no one was willing to ask for it at that time, but I won the lottery, and I checked it on the Internet, hey, it was worth hundreds of dollars at that time, I was quite happy, but I sold it and bought a game console to play, and a bitcoin ransomware virus ran out in the past few days, and now it's worth five thousand in the past few days, and it's still rising, I regret it to death!"

"Yes, Bitcoin is a thing with a high rate of return, I estimate that in the past ten years, except for the house in Yanjing and Shanghai, there is nothing to compare with him. ”

"yes, now Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Chinese aunts, all play Bitcoin now. ”

"Do you know how much this thing is now?"

"I know that this thing is now a digital currency, but it is from the initial stage, he already has the potential of money, Bitcoin is considered a scam, the biggest reason is that the concept of Bitcoin is too new, a bit contrary to the common sense of ordinary people to understand money, first of all, Bitcoin is a highly decentralized product, it as a previous issuer like a central bank.

There's no one to dominate it, there's no governing body, and Bitcoin doesn't have a physical entity, but a computer-generated string of code that can't be seen or touched. You say that if a stranger tells you that this string of numbers and letters is money, then everyone will suspect that they may have seen fake money, right?"

"I heard that this bitcoin was invented by a Japanese person, who has finance, mathematics, computers, and programming. Cryptography has a very strong genius, this bitcoin is calculated by computer computing power, the number of games in the world is only more than 20 million, this bitcoin because of decentralization, will not be as inflationary as paper money.

You must know that the banknote is issued by the central bank, and if you don't control it, and you print too much money, then the money will be worthless. This bitcoin can maintain its value, you see the previous Argentine inflation, that is not ordinary inflation, if you don't spend the money in the bank, the daily depreciation shrinks by half. When you go to a convenience store to buy water, you have to get a bundle of money, and if you have money, Argentines will exchange dollars and hide under their beds. At that time, they also had a high cost of surgery in US dollars, and with the advent of Bitcoin, the value was reflected at this time. And Bitcoin is safer than traditional money, because property will be frozen by the government or banks at will, if your currency is Bitcoin, no institution has the ability to forcibly freeze it, each Bitcoin has a unique key, only the person who owns it knows. And no one can trace the transaction, which is absolutely**, unlike our other payment methods that can be traced...... It is more convenient than all currencies, everyone knows that sending money across borders is a particularly troublesome matter, which includes high surgical fees, and exchange rate fluctuations, and Bitcoin is only carried out between computers, without intermediaries and without borders.

Bitcoin has created a new way to pay.

……

this day.

May 15, 2017.

The media has reported that a computer ransomware virus is spreading around the world, and 99 countries have been infected by the virus. The most serious areas are concentrated in the United States, Europe, Australia and other regions, and have also entered China from abroad.

North Korea escaped under this large-scale attack and defended a pure land. Because it's closed to the country!

CCTV News Report: A large-scale outbreak of worm ransomware infection in the world has hit nearly 10,000 computers in 99 countries in just a few hours. The United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, Germany, Turkey, Italy, China, the Philippines and other countries have all been attacked, and the attacks are still spreading.

This ransomware exploits vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows system to gain the ability to spread automatically, infecting all computers within a system within a few hours. According to 360 statistics, the virus attacked 4,000 times per hour yesterday night.

According to the Cyber Security Agency, Eternal Blue is the first instance of the civilian use of the NSA's cyber arsenal. It automatically scans the Indos machine on the 445 file share port, and can encrypt and lock all disk files without any action from the user, and then hackers can remotely control the Trojan and extort a "ransom" from the user.

The 'ransom' needs to be paid in Bitcoin.

Virtual currency payments are fragmented and difficult to trace, making them very popular with hackers.

The ransomware, named "Eternal Blue", disguises itself as an Indos system file, and once infected, most file types on the computer are encrypted, and then extorted $300 or $600 worth of bitcoin from the user. The virus affects all Indos operating systems.

The first to be attacked was the UK's NHS (National Health Service) system.

According to a report by the BBC and N, more than 16 hospitals in the UK were attacked on a large scale yesterday, the system was paralyzed, scheduled surgeries were forced to be cancelled, and ambulances were forced to transfer to other hospitals. The hackers demanded that the hospital pay $300 worth of bitcoins to get the keys and reopen the files. If the payment is not completed within three days, the ransom will be doubled.

Eighty-five percent of the computers of a Spanish telecommunications company were infected with the malware. At least 1,600 U.S. organizations, 11,200 Russian groups received attacks.

In addition to the hardest-hit areas of worm infection in China, the all-in-one card system was paralyzed, and 6,500 other Chinese organizations and enterprises were attacked.

At present, China's major universities have entered the graduation defense time, and many students' office files in their computers are unfortunately "recruited" and cannot be opened, including graduation thesis, graduation design and defense ppt, etc., all of which are locked. Students who have been hit by the ransomware virus are very anxious, and many have even begun to redo their graduation theses and defense PPTs overnight. According to the statistics of relevant agencies, at present, more than 5,000 machines in China are remotely attacked by the NSA's "Eternal Blue" hacking weapon every day.

Hacker Kevin explained in a Weibo article the reason why the domestic education network bore the brunt,

Due to the previous outbreaks of worms spread by port 445 in China, operators have blocked port 445 for individual users, but the education network does not have this restriction, and there are still a large number of machines exposed to port 445.

Not only was the education network attacked, but the public security local area network was not spared. At present, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions have been unable to handle vehicle inspection, license plate and other businesses, and the entry and exit processing in Xiangshui area also needs to be suspended.

When an employee of a gas company in a city in Sichuan Province went to work, they found that the company's gas system server was infected by a ransomware virus, and all key data and information were locked, resulting in the entire system being unable to operate normally. The hackers left their email contact information on all the encrypted files and demanded that the gas company pay 4 bitcoins to unlock the password.

Hackers create a virus, that is, ask for bitcoins!

This bitcoin instantly hung like a gust of wind to the general public, and it was originally a thing that only elite people knew, but suddenly became a well-known thing.

Next, as long as the Japanese, South Koreans, and Germans announce the legalization plan of Bitcoin, Bitcoin will usher in a bigger wave of crazy skyrocketing!

Xi Ming seems to see that tens of billions of wealth are beckoning to him in the future!

[ps, my friend's book "Reborn Super Banking System" tells the story of the banker's contrarian rise and calling for wind and rain, 600,000 words, if you are interested, you can read it]

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