Soon after Fiona got her GED certificate, she found a steady job and joined a cup sales company as a telemarketer.

The salary during the probation period is not very high, but the prospects are not bad, after the regularization, not only the basic salary and commission will be greatly improved, but also five insurances and one housing fund!

Fiona worked very hard, and when she first joined the company, she almost reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat.

During this time, the responsibility of taking care of his younger siblings shifted to Lip's head.

After receiving an offer of admission to the University of Chicago, Lip asked the school to stop attending classes.

Instead of going to class, Lip has a lot of time every day, in addition to preparing for college classes and doing fitness training every day.

Flipping the iPhone 4 and making a second-order seller of Chinese goods, after the process is fixed, it doesn't take much effort.

Lip found other things for himself, the first of which was to rebuild the basement of the house next door to the Gallagher House, which Lip named "Gallagher House No. 2", or "No. 2" for short.

Previously, Lip had only simply renovated the first and second floors of the house, barely enough to live in.

Lip hasn't told anyone else about the house.

Originally, in the plot of "Shameless", Jimmy's purchase of this house would be broken by Debbie, but now, under Lip's operation, Debbie is also kept in the dark.

Lip had been quietly repairing the house by himself, and he hadn't let Fiona break it.

Now, Fiona is busy with work, Ian is spending the rest of his time with Mickey except for school and part-time work, Debbie and Carl's spare time are requisitioned by Lip, Debbie is in charge of the promotion of Chinese goods, Carl is in charge of the acquisition of iPhone 4, and they have no time to care about what Lip is doing.

Only Liam has been by Lipp's side, but he is only more than two years old, and he is not good at speaking, so he naturally cannot become an informer.

With a certain amount of capital reserves on hand, there is no other way to invest for the time being, and he doesn't want to put it in the bank, so Lip began the second step of the bitcoin speculation plan - to build a mining machine and mine bitcoin by himself.

In the early years of the concept, mining Bitcoin on your own was a good business – especially with a clear idea of the future peak of Bitcoin's value.

If you calculate according to the historical peak of the value of a single bitcoin, the income of mining a bitcoin is nearly $100,000!

Investment, only an upfront fixed fee, plus a monthly electricity bill!

Lip didn't plan to build a large mine, but only planned to assemble a computer with acceptable computing power in the basement of "No. 2" - he was going to ask Victor for help in this matter, and the equipment was all second-hand obsolete goods, and the cost could be reduced to a few hundred dollars.

Lip himself is now learning about computer assembly, and can repair, assemble, add or remove parts by himself in the later stage.

After the mining machine is completed, even if the computing power cannot be compared with those professional mining machines, it will be enough for Lip to earn a sum of bitcoin every month!

Moreover, the difficulty of Bitcoin mining is not very high now, let alone a month, you can mine a sum in a day.

Lip quickly cleaned up the basement of "No. 2", re-made waterproof, ventilated and flame-retardant treatments, and added noise-reducing devices.

The renovation project was completed by Lip himself, and it only took some time, but the materials that are waterproof, ventilated, flame retardant, and noise reducing cost two or three thousand dollars.

It took two months to complete the basement renovation.

At this time, Lip's first profit on bitcoin speculation has arrived, and a part of it is used for mining machine assembly.

Lip and Victor, after working together on the iPhone 4 flash program, became friends, and after that, Lip often went to Victor to ask for computer knowledge.

As a tech nerd, Victor is not averse to having a supernatural person like Lip, who can often make all kinds of strange things, and who can be of interest to Victor, plus a friend who is smart and can communicate smoothly with him.

What's more, under Lip's suggestion, Victor engaged in the iPhone 4 flashing program, after he upgraded to version 6.0, the cumulative number of downloads has exceeded 10,000 times, bringing Victor $100,000 in revenue.

Victor owes a lot of favor to this favor.

Reasonable, he did his best to help Lip with some small favors.

Bitcoin mining machine does not have high requirements for CPU, computing power is mainly reflected in the graphics card, the United States is a big country of electronic waste, the number of graphics cards eliminated every year is incalculable, Lip easily got a batch of eliminated second-hand graphics cards, and assembled the mining machine by himself.

Anyway, he doesn't have high requirements for the computing power of the mining machine, and the reason why he engages in the mining machine is just to be idle and used for recreation.

The real speculation is still to sweep the goods at a low price on the bitcoin trading platform.

Before June, in addition to not taking two or three hours to renovate the basement of "No. 2", Lip also increased the time to practice guitar and learn music theory.

was reborn in the United States, and if he didn't get involved in the entertainment industry, he was sorry for his identity as a reborn.

Although I didn't know much about the American entertainment industry before, the only understanding I had was limited to those popular American dramas, hit movies, and hit songs.

But that's enough for Lip.

American dramas and movies require a relatively high degree of professionalism, and Lip does not plan to specialize in the entertainment industry in the future, so he has not invested too much energy in this area.

At most, when you have more spare money in the future, you can invest in a few movies to play.

Lip focuses on the music market.

As the world's largest and most important music market, the United States now accounts for one-third of the world's total output value every year, and the output value in 2010 was as high as $4 billion!

If it is regarded as the output value of the performance market, the scale will be expanded by more than ten times!

The total box office of the American film market in 2010 was only $10.5 billion.

Of course, if you count the income from merchandising sales, video rentals, and other aspects, the total size of the American film market is not much smaller than that of the music market.

Lip doesn't care about the size of the U.S. music market in general, he just wants to copy a few hit songs and get a piece of the pie.

In addition, Lip is going to combine Kevin, Ian, and Carl at the right time to form a band, and he will come up with a few songs and everyone will do things together.

Lip has always been interested in touring the American band, and wants to have an in-depth exchange with those girls who are called "Guo'er" in China and "flesh and skin" in the United States.