Chapter 219: Food Stamps
However, just like where industrial upgrading will exist, virtual mining, as a "secondary industry", has not long since its birth to give rise to the tertiary industry of P-coin reselling business and the financial industry of P-coin deposit and loan futures.
Of course, some of these businesses are officially launched by Bee, such as P coin deposit and loan, users can get a virtual P coin credit card after application review, which can overdraft a certain amount of P coin in advance, consume in advance, and then repay the debt through hang-up mining.
However, the P currency trading and even futures business between users are completely operated by the third-party platform, because it is limited by the special attributes of the P currency itself, and it cannot be used nationwide.
Of course, because these projects are not very profitable, the bees disdain to do so, and just provide trading tools like the country builds the stock market, and then let the participants pay for their own profits and losses.
The output and consumption process of P coin is actually to decompose and split some tasks that can only be performed locally with the help of high-speed networks, and hand them over to other nearby computers to execute, which obviously has high requirements for bandwidth, communication delay, and network stability.
As a result, it is also as difficult to store as electricity, and needs to be used instantly, which is why Atletico Madrid gave it the name of an energy coin.
In a bee swarm network, someone is mining and producing P coins, and someone must be spending P coins to use the acceleration service.
The age structure, hobbies and even the nature of work of users in different regions will lead to the output and consumption of local P coins are very different, and the production capacity can not be increased infinitely due to the demand constraints, and the demand is also limited by the production capacity and cannot be squandered at will, and the two sides limit each other to the smallest one.
And unlike electricity, it can also be sold in other places through the ultra-high voltage transmission network, and it is difficult for P currency to achieve long-distance transportation and transfer of goods like other commodities due to network conditions, and the result is that the small market of P currency around the country is fragmented, and the production and sales volume and price are very different.
In this sense, P coin is more like the food stamps that had to be issued when the country was poor in the past, and there are even some older "miners" who have used food stamps to call it food stamps. In this land, more than 2,500 cities and counties, and even some towns and townships, as well as some large enterprises, factories and mines, farms, schools, governments, government agencies, and other units across the country once issued a large number of grain stamps that belonged only to their own localities and departments, and even cloth stamps, meat stamps, bicycle stamps, watch stamps, and so on.
Of course, P currency and grain stamps are still different, grain stamps, vegetable stamps, coal stamps, these things are because the productive forces are underdeveloped, the supply of materials is tight, the state has to make overall management, strictly restrict residents' consumption, and achieve quantitative supply. For each urban resident, according to age, gender, job content, job level, arrange different supply indicators, regularly and quantitatively issue the right to purchase various consumer goods every month, and then pay soft sister coins with tickets to obtain the corresponding goods.
In fact, food stamps or something are just the right to buy commodities, and the price of commodities still needs to be paid with soft sister coins, and the price of goods calculated by soft sister coins is actually very low, because this price does not include tax, and the value-added tax, which accounts for 60% of the national tax revenue, will not be introduced on a trial basis until after 1979, and the price of the second product is specified by the Planning Commission, and the profit is strictly limited.
This low-profit, low-price model will obviously depress the country's GDP level and tax revenues, but at that time, it was a world of various public ownership, and profits were the tail of capitalism. And all enterprises at that time were state, no matter whether that sector was losing money or making money, in the end the meat rotted in the pot.
To this day, there are still many people who miss the Chinese cabbage that cost a penny, the eggs that cost 5 cents a pound, and the pork that cost a few cents a pound, and cry out miserably, "Money is becoming less and less valuable."
However, these people have forgotten when they are so lamenting and sighing, in the 60s and 70s, he can throw out eight pieces of great unity (the third set of 10 yuan soft sister banknotes, because the pattern is a representative of workers, peasants, businessmen, students and soldiers, meaning the great unity of the people of the whole country) boldly said, "Do I want all this truck of four tons of cabbage?"
Not to mention the little foot detective team that jumps out every minute to check the household registration and investigate your family's income, or even police tea, but it is not easy to get an 8,000-pound cabbage ticket.
Even if you can barely get an 8,000-pound cabbage ticket, a bicycle ticket, a laundry ticket, and a TV ticket are not so easy to get.
It is equivalent to saying that it is food stamps and vegetable stamps, and these stamps artificially divide the price of goods into two parts, one is the right to purchase represented by the ticket, and the other is the accounting price represented by the soft sister coin.
The rationed supply tickets issued by the state to each urban resident are actually part of the salary, and even the bulk of the salary in a sense. After all, there is no ticket in his hand, and no matter how many soft sister coins there are, he is blind.
This led to a result, at that time, there were a large number of private tickets across the country to exchange for the black market, thrifty food and clothing to sell food stamps and cloth tickets, and the son couldn't wait for the unit to issue bicycle tickets, sewing tickets, watch tickets, and radio tickets to make up the "three turns and one ring" to summon the new daughter-in-law, so he had to borrow from neighbors, relatives and friends, or take out other tickets at home to sell them on the black market and then use soft sister coins to buy the tickets he needed.
Therefore, the market economy has never been far away, the real tail of capitalism is in the cities, and cutting the chickens, ducks, pigs and dogs raised by the peasants is completely looking for the wrong target, and it is purely bullying honest people.
Talking away, the topic returns to P coins.
The biggest similarity between P coins and grain stamps is that they are both "physical bills", and one pound of grain stamps corresponds to the right to purchase 500 grams of grain of the specified variety.
The transaction of each catty of food stamps does not necessarily represent the cooking and consumption of a bowl of noodles and a dish, and the increase or decrease of each P coin must be accompanied by the transfer and consumption of computing power.
On the other hand, the relationship between P coins and bee coins and soft sister coins is also very similar to the relationship between thousands of tickets and soft sister coins back then. In the past, if various tickets in different regions need to be used across regions and categories, they generally need to be exchanged for soft sister coins through the black market, and then exchanged for the region and type of demand for this. Moreover, P coins also have annoying capacity constraints like food stamps, and cannot be spent and exchanged at will.
In fact, Bee has launched an official trading platform for P coins, but for various reasons, the functions of this platform are very simple, and it is not good or powerful.
Since last year, a little girl said on the ccvt completion simulcast, "The last time I checked the information, a window suddenly popped up, very yellow and violent, I ...... I'll turn it off quickly", the original official hope of "purifying the content of online audio-visual programs" The purpose was completely ignored, but it led to the "very good and powerful" that was originally only popular in some online forums, and it became widely known together, so that in the **** photo incident that just happened, some media even directly condensed the confessions of the female stars who leaked out of the x photos into the five words "very stupid and naïve".
Purely from a technical point of view,The entire bee collaborative acceleration technology system is of course very good and powerful,After all, it can make the old machine glow with a second spring,Let the home "broadband" really download at full speed,It is a very practical and powerful function。 However, the official trading platform of P coin is a bit pitted.
In fact, the function of the trading platform is still very powerful, which can realize the buying, selling and lending of P coins, and the transaction object can be between users, or between users and bee officials. The reason why the official platform is scolded by users is mainly because the price of P currency is not ideal for trading with the official, not to mention the official buy low and sell high, but also limit the trading volume of a certain account, and also divide users into 369 and other levels, and the transaction price is slightly different, although it is still low buy and sell high.
Many people have asked or asked bees to increase the purchase price and transaction limit on the Internet more than once, Li Jiaming and their users who are close to the water have also told Atletico Madrid about this problem in person, but Atletico can only helplessly spread their hands and say that we can't do it!
The official participation is mainly to act as a central bank, assuming the function of storing P coins, but as mentioned above, P coins are essentially quantitative computing power, and they have the same disadvantages as electricity, which are not easy to store, and there are also difficulties in long-distance transmission, so the process of official acquisition and sale of P coins is much more troublesome than the acquisition and sale of bee coins.
Bee coin is bound to the exchange rate of soft sister coins, in fact, it is a token, as long as it is not bound to gold coins, it can be exchanged for soft sister coins at any time, or from soft sister coins to bee coins, of course, the necessary handling fees are not less, after all, people's bank online banking remittance service is not free.
In essence, the computing power used in a certain area can be quantified, and the transmission and storage of P coins can be much more troublesome. After the user starts mining, he will continue to generate computing power and be automatically packaged into various acceleration services by the system, and sell it to other users within a certain range in the surrounding area to obtain P coins.
Because there are always people mining and some people accelerating, from the perspective of the whole network, in fact, the sum of P coins in the accounts of all participants is just one zero, which is determined by the unstorable characteristics of computing power.
In order to avoid the situation that insufficient demand will lead to a decline in the production of P coins and the cost of electricity in vain, the bees themselves will also join in to act as a bank and reservoir for P coins, purchasing a large amount of computing power to spend P coins during the low peak hours in the early morning and morning, and opening their own servers to sell computing power to recover P coins during the peak hours of the afternoon and evening.
Because of the defect that P coins cannot be transmitted remotely, Bee has to build computer rooms near cities with a concentration of users across the country to act as a reservoir of computing power, and decompose and split some of the company's computing tasks that need to use supercomputers and put them on user computers for calculation.
Therefore, Atletico Madrid calmly told the students that bees buying low and selling high seem to be profitable, but in fact, they were wronged, in fact, the operating cost of this system is still very high, after all, the construction of a large number of regional computer rooms brings a lot of maintenance costs and management costs.
And due to the requirements of system reliability, each acceleration service is not undertaken by a single computer. This effectively prevents the computer participating in the collaborative acceleration from accidentally dropping offline, which can lead to the user who is enjoying the acceleration service falling from the cloud.
"It seems that when we buy P coins, we buy 10p for one gold coin, and then sell 1p one gold coin to you, which seems to have a 900% profit, but in fact, this is nonsense! In order to ensure the stability of the service, we also have to prepare redundant backups at the same time, and sell you a P coin, and we will consume several P coins in vain. Therefore, the sales volume of P coins is always a fraction of the purchase of P coins, and the gross profit is far from reaching several times, and there is a 30% of the death, plus the cost of computer room construction is actually not a loss. Atletico said.
"Then why are you doing this p-coin business?"
"Build a harmonious society, strive to save energy and reduce emissions, and reduce e-waste!" said Atletico Madrid with the most righteous expression and tone: "The biggest benefit of this business is that it can reduce the new demand for computer performance in the whole society." We let the old machine fight for another three to five years to reduce the number of computer replacements, so as to reduce the generation of electronic waste from the root. ”
Although on the surface, because of the P coin craze, many people are crazy about hanging up the electricity bill, but the whole society's expenditure in the computer field should be reduced, after all, there is no need or less to buy new equipment.
Of course, the bees came up with this system not really to save energy and reduce emissions, as Atletico said, but only a collateral effect.
In fact, because there are many people who specialize in mining to make money, the computing power of the entire bee colony network as a whole is free, especially in the early morning and morning. During this time period, a large amount of computing power and bandwidth purchased by bees at low prices were digested by bees themselves, some of which were used for the development and operation of software and games, and some were used for the operation of fishing net search engines. With the help of a large number of private resources, bees have greatly reduced server expenses and bandwidth expenses.
As for the computing power supplied to the majority of users during the peak hours at night, most of it is provided by Bee's regional servers, which can greatly improve the stability of the service, unless there is a large-scale power outage such as the snow storm in February, which can usually ensure the stability of the acceleration service.
As for the acceleration services used by individual users, most of them are used in various network acceleration services to meet the high-speed download needs of ordinary users.
As for Atletico Madrid's so-called "30% gross profit", it is pure nonsense, and 70% of the P coins that disappeared were used by the bees themselves. And Bee itself is also the largest consumer on the entire P-coin network, paying a large amount of soft sister coins to buy P-coins, and these money are eventually dispersed into the hands of a large number of mining users, turning into their mining profits.
This is the ultimate reason why the price of P coin is always high, and the trading volume is not very high, after all, this is a buyer's market, or a buyer's market where the buyer doubles as a referee. The development speed of the entire P-coin market scale is completely increased according to the business expansion steps of Bee itself.
On paper, Bee's synergistic acceleration business does have less than 30% of the gross profit.
This is because Bee has purchased a lot of servers and built a large number of regional computer rooms to carry out this business. But at the same time, because of the existence of this business, Bee's other businesses, including the network disk business of the garden company, have greatly slowed down the frequency of adding hardware equipment, and the depreciation cost of equipment reduced by this alone is not a small number.
After all, if you want to use collaborative acceleration services, you need to design the software architecture to strengthen multi-core and parallel computing, which is still a big burden for most software companies and network companies.
As for ordinary users who use collaborative acceleration, they also use this function through software and games produced by Bee. Download acceleration requires Bee Computer Manager + Bee BM download tool, Video acceleration requires Butler + Fantasy TV Station, and Game Acceleration requires Butler + "Daming" client.
For this situation, bees are naturally muffled to make a fortune, and the price of Lede P currency is gradually decreasing, but the majority of mining users are suffering, after deducting electricity and network fees, equipment depreciation, and labor costs, there is basically no net profit left for a few cents. In order to save costs, few people use new hardware for mining, and most of them tend to choose second-hand high-performance hardware, and the location of the mining studio is also very important, and it must be selected around the place where young people in their 20s and 30s live to get the best profits.
On the surface, it is because there are a large number of young people living in this kind of place, they are the main force of netizens, and they are also the main force of P coin consumption, and the production of P coin is naturally close to consumers. But in fact, the higher price of P coins in this area is because there are more bee users in this kind of place, which makes bees buy a large number of P coins.
However, even so, the price of P coin has always been slowly declining, if it is not completely all the way down, there will be a small periodic rise every once in a while, many people may have withdrawn from this emerging industry.
As for the cyclical rise or something, it is completely the result of bees' "market manipulation", and most of the time bees are small increases in the daily purchase volume of P coins, so as not to stimulate the market and cause the price of P coins to skyrocket, causing the cost to surge. However, every once in a while, Bee will deliberately increase the purchase volume of P coins by a large margin to boost the market and avoid the complete withdrawal of mining studios.
It is equivalent to saying that the bee opened a small market by itself, and then sat on the bank to eat it all, so although there is a futures business on the P coin trading platform, few players who speculated on P coin made money from it. Occasionally, those who make a little money are like Li Jiaming and they follow the bees step by step.
However, this is not "insider trading" because it is not a stock market.
This is also the reason why Atletico Madrid is respectful of the stock market, after the stock market plummeted by 3,000 points at the end of last year, he once said to Fang Zhanping, who made a big profit and a small profit because he cut the meat too late: "Therefore, if you can't sit in the bank, don't speculate in stocks, otherwise you will lose no matter how you drop it." ”
It is not a secret that the bees do not deliberately publicize it, but they also do not deliberately conceal it. In fact, many people can see this from the flow of funds for the entire project. Although the bee itself is the largest supplier of P coins, it is also a larger buyer, and the bees consume the most P coins and spend the most soft sister coins. Even if the project is spun off from Bee, it still won't change Beetech's strong position as the largest buyer.
Atletico then received an email from the United States, in which he praised the idea of Powercoin, criticized the short-sightedness of Bee, and actively persuaded Bee to internationalize and decentralize PowerCoin and make it a real electronic currency. That person's surname seems to be a Japanese romanized sound, which translates to be Nakamoto s. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net