Decentralization will become the hottest concept of the entire Internet in the future. But in a market sense, the Internet was originally inherently decentralized.

When the Internet entered the commercial field in the mid-90s, it quickly gained market acceptance. At this stage, the main websites on the Internet are not large websites, but individual websites with ordinary netizens as units.

There are a variety of these personal sites, the largest of which is the website that introduces itself and various BBS.

Whether in China or the United States, the Internet was first popularized in universities. When college students got tired of the internal network set up by their schools, they began to think about building all kinds of personal stations on their own, and even Yahoo, which was originally just a personal station, named Ferro and Zhiyuan's web navigation guides. It took Sequoia's venture capital to transform Yahoo from a personal website maintained by only two people to the greatest wonder of the pre-Internet era.

Even today, when Yahoo has been successful until 97 years ago, the trend of centralization of the Internet is not obvious, and Yahoo, as the largest Internet company, does not even have its own data center. The decentralization of the Internet proposed by the Koch brothers is obviously not in response to the current market situation.

They may not realize that what they envision is a new kind of Internet, and this kind of Internet, in the future, will be considered one of the directions in which the Internet is heading.

From a market perspective, the Internet is now decentralized. But from a technical point of view, when accessing any website on the Internet, you must first visit the other party's server, and this server is actually a center.

In the decentralized Internet, there is no such thing as a server. When everyone's personal computers and smart devices are advanced enough and the network speed is fast enough, all data is scattered anywhere on the Internet, and all data processing work is completed through distributed computing. The entire Internet becomes one of the largest servers, and at the same time, the privacy of each person and company is protected to the greatest extent.

The blockchain technology, which became popular in later generations, is one of the underlying technologies of the decentralized Internet.

Of course, it's too early to say this, and even dial-up networks are not yet widespread. It is still more than ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto, the father of Bitcoin, proposed the idea of blockchain, and with the current technical accumulation, there is no possibility of decentralization.

Anyway, Zhang Chen finally understood the Koch brothers' plans. In this case, there is really no risk in cooperating with the Koch brothers, but there are many benefits.

Koch Industries is a chemical group that is not much smaller than DuPont and BASF。。。。。。

Now that the biggest doubts have been dissipated, Zhang Chen happily agreed to the Koch brothers' financing request. And a buyback clause was added to the agreement, and at the time of the IPO, Zhang Chen had the right to buy back half of Sequoia's shares at $750 million or the closing price on the day of listing.

In fact, two of these four pieces of land belong to David Koch, and the price of a one-time payment is 6.5 million. Zhang Chen pointed to the land under his feet, "Of course, he bought it earlier, ten years ago he bought this house and the pier across the road for $2.89 million." The large vacant lot next to it was the land of the original residents of Palm Beach, which was sold for less than 2.3 million. The villa with the marina opposite was also bought under the mediation of David Koch, but the price was indeed a little more expensive. This villa was originally going to be sold at a price of 3.6 million, but when the other party saw that I wanted to buy all four plots, he wanted to raise the price. The price increase was unsuccessful, and he did tricks in the terms of the contract, but fortunately the lawyer could see it, otherwise there might be trouble in the future. ”

It doesn't matter if the price of the listed house increases, after all, the real estate in the United States is recovering rapidly, and the upward trend is obvious. But it's all too rare to set a trap in a contract. Those who can have an industry here are more or less characters with heads and faces, but people of this class play such small tricks, and ordinary people really can't do such shameless things.

"Who is the original owner of that villa?" Tang Miaomiao asked curiously.

Zhang Chen had a strange look on his face: "Donald Trump." ”

"Is it him?" Tang Miaomiao's eyes couldn't help but widen, "Is that the Trump who held the Miss Universe contest?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "Yes, it's him." A few years ago, he almost went bankrupt, and his property was supervised by the bank. In the past two years, his financial situation has just improved a little, and although the Miss Universe contest last year earned him eyeballs, he lost some money. ”

"Remember when we went to New York, we saw 40 Wall Street under renovation, which had been renamed the Trump Building. He plans to renovate and bet on the bank at a high price, but most of his property is still supervised by the bank, and it is estimated that the cash on hand should not be very abundant, so he sold the house to raise money. ”

Tang Miaomiao said hatefully: "If I want to say that I shouldn't buy his house, it's good for this kind of person to go bankrupt." ”

Zhang Chen smiled silently, it was really not that easy to bankrupt Trump.

Trump's business skills are quite strong, and when the real estate market crashed in the early 90s, many real estate developers who were bigger than Trump failed to survive and went bankrupt. But Trump, with his incorruptible tongue and good connections in New York's high society, actually let his creditors take the initiative to reduce his debts, thus escaping the catastrophe.

Don't look at the people in New York high society who mention Trump in public with disdain, but in fact, many of them have a good personal relationship with Trump. Most of them are also members of many of Trump's clubs.

Trump can run for president with confidence in 20 years, and it is not without dependence.

The two walked barefoot on the beach, and Palm Beach mansions lined up, but not every villa near the beach has a private beach. The beach in front of many mansions is actually a public resource, and even if it is a private beach, it is not allowed to build a fence for ordinary tourists to pass.

But after all, this is a luxury residential area, and there are few people in sight everywhere you look, Tang Miaomiao leaned on Zhang Chen's shoulder, and felt the gentle sea breeze with her eyes closed. The afterglow of the setting sun shone from behind the two of them, pulling out two long shadows.

"It would be nice to be able to do this every day. Tang Miaomiao muttered to herself with her eyes closed.

Zhang Chen said softly: "Do you like it here?"

Tang Miaomiao nodded lightly, and Zhang Chen smiled: "That's good, I'm afraid you don't like this birthday gift." Here I bought it in your name and we can all come and stay for a while every year if you like. ”

Tang Miaomiao's body shook and straightened up in surprise.

Zhang Chen took Tang Miaomiao's hands and gently kissed her on the forehead: "Happy birthday." ”

Recently, you can pay attention to gold, and if there is a pullback, you can take some funds to hedge.

In most cases, the price of building a house in the United States is much higher than the price of land, and Palm Beach is no exception.

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