This is Yao Qianxun's birthday party?!
A week later, Ou Yunchen arrived at the party with a birthday gift.
But as Yao Qianxun introduced, there were indeed no young men and women her age here. Many of them seemed older than Ou Yunchen.
When Ou Yunchen walked into the party, he thought he had stumbled into a pyramid scheme, because they were all discussing the same thing—Tte Coin.
Yao Qianxun: "Everyone, this is my upstairs neighbor, Mr. Ou Yunchen."
Yao Qianxun had a special table for gifts, with many beautifully wrapped gifts, or even just gifts with brand logos, lying together.
Ou Yunchen: "Hello."
Yao Qianxun: "This is my master, Li Xiaokai."
Ou Yunchen's mind went "ding." If many people were unfamiliar with this name, or had never even heard of it, it was because it didn't involve them or was outside their knowledge scope.
But if Tte Coin was mentioned, they should have heard of it to some extent.
As for this man named Li Xiaokai, he was precisely the one known as the foremost of the four Heavenly Kings of the domestic crypto circle!
And when mentioning Li Xiaokai, one must say that he is the richest man in the domestic crypto circle!
Li Xiaokai: "No, I'm just an internet metaphysician, the founder of speculative dynamics."
He was indeed humorous. Many people called Tte Coin a scam and even scoffed at it.
But no matter how much external rejection and disgust there was, it couldn't change one fact.
That was that big players in the crypto circle could earn a Rolls-Royce in minutes.
Simply put, the crypto circle was like stock trading, with ups and downs, constantly delivering myths of getting rich to the "leeks" every day.
But the success of the big players wasn't just the numbers in their hundreds of millions of assets; it was the wisdom, unique vision, and charm behind them.
Ou Yunchen: "I've heard so much about you."
Li Xiaokai: "My disciple often mentions you, saying you are a very capable entrepreneur."
Ou Yunchen: "Really? I thought she'd say I'm a very capable neighbor uncle."
Li Xiaokai smiled and clinked glasses with Ou Yunchen. This was hardly an ordinary birthday party; it was a business meeting, a mutual flattery session between bosses!
Next, Li Xiaokai introduced three other crypto bigwigs: Wu Weihan, a preacher of Tte Coin; Guo Haocai, known as "Second Master Bao" in the crypto circle; and Yang Like, the first person to bring Tte Coin into China.
After shaking hands and greeting each one, Ou Yunchen finally understood who these people were and what they did.
Ou Yunchen: "How did you meet them?"
Yao Qianxun: "Hmm... I study computer science, so we researched mining together, and by chance? Hahaha."
Ou Yunchen looked at Yao Qianxun's explanation, which sounded rather forced. It was clear that it wasn't that simple.
However, Ou Yunchen had been brought into a circle he would never have had the chance to access by Yao Qianxun. Here, everyone was a seasoned miner and a fervent supporter of Tte Coin.
Ou Yunchen: "Are your classmates the same as you?"
Yao Qianxun: "Pretty much. Because they could make money, they all joined the Tte Coin army."
Ou Yunchen: "To be honest, when you moved into our apartment alone, I thought your family must be very well-off. At least a wealthy family could afford to let you live in such a high-end apartment."
Yao Qianxun laughed heartily. She neither denied nor confirmed, just chuckled, which made her even more mysterious.
Ou Yunchen: "How long have you been a miner?"
Yao Qianxun: "Around 2011, I started mining when Uncle Yang brought Tte Coin in."
Ou Yunchen: "Ten years? You were only ten years old then, right?"
Yao Qianxun: "About that. So I can be considered a little rich woman now, hahahaha."
Ou Yunchen: "Then it was his bad luck that your boyfriend dumped you. He was blind."
Yao Qianxun: "Even rich women can't get everything they want with money, hahahaha."
Ou Yunchen didn't understand the crypto circle, but he had heard many myths about it!
For example, Yao Qianxun said she entered the circle in 2011 when Tte Coin was only around one dollar per coin.
If you thought it was great for it to rise a few thousand or ten thousand times like stocks, you'd be terribly wrong!
The myth created by Tte Coin was beyond normal human comprehension, capable of creating millionaires and billionaires in minutes!
And now, even not at its peak, Tte Coin could reach nearly sixty thousand US dollars per coin!
So, even if Yao Qianxun held 100 Tte Coins back then, she would now have at least six million US dollars in her pocket!
Ou Yunchen looked at the men and women chatting and laughing around him, and he could hardly imagine how many billionaires were among this group.
Yao Qianxun: "I'm going to say hello to my friends. Feel free to mingle, everyone is very friendly."
Ou Yunchen smiled and said it was fine, but he didn't know how to communicate with people outside his knowledge blind spot.
So, Ou Yunchen quickly took out his phone and started cramming information about Tte Coin, and also briefly learned about the stories of the Four Heavenly Kings.
Even though they were right in front of him, Ou Yunchen felt a sense of powerlessness. The more he read, the more he felt that this almost divine virtual currency made people feel ecstatic.
However, finding useful information amidst the dazzling online information was not an easy task.
Another interesting aspect of Tte Coin worth noting was a new product derived from virtual currency in recent years—blockchain.
In simple terms, blockchain is a shared database. All information is recorded, traceable no matter how far back, and the information is transparent and completely public.
The reason Tte Coin is loved by so many might be the contribution of blockchain. It laid the foundation for a trustworthy cooperative mechanism and has broad application prospects.
As he watched, Ou Yunchen was indeed attracted by the blockchain.
Li Xiaokai: "Mr. Ou, is this your first time encountering the crypto circle?"
Ou Yunchen awkwardly put down his phone. He had to ask for advice from someone knowledgeable. What a golden opportunity!
Ou Yunchen: "Yes, I've only heard of it before. My understanding is limited to knowing that Tte Coin is a very profitable virtual currency."
Li Xiaokai: "That's right. Some people trade real estate, some trade stocks, and we people trade cryptocurrencies."
Ou Yunchen: "Teacher Li, although I understand Tte Coin, how should I learn about blockchain?"
As soon as he heard someone call him teacher, Li Xiaokai became very enthusiastic, as if he had returned to the era when he was vigorously promoting Tte Coin.
Under Li Xiaokai's explanation, Ou Yunchen gradually realized that although the government strictly controlled this thing, a lot of inspiration could be gained from it.
What Ou Yunchen found interesting was that blockchain might solve the problems caused by third-party intermediaries in the financial industry. If transactions could be directly peer-to-peer, a large amount of intermediate fees could be saved, and transactions could be completed quickly.
As Ou Yunchen raised his questions, Li Xiaokai, drawing on his years of experience and understanding, provided Ou Yunchen with feasible development directions and told him how to solve the current problems.
Li Xiaokai: "Do you know Visa? Cross-border payments usually take 3-5 days. But Visa launched Visa B2B Connect, based on blockchain technology, to solve the problem of payments between global enterprises more cheaply, faster, and more securely."
"Furthermore, Visa has partnered with Coinbase to issue the first Tte Coin debit card, and Citibank has piloted a cryptocurrency called 'Citi Coin,' all of which are based on blockchain."
Ou Yunchen listened very attentively. The problems he wanted to solve might be solvable through continuous technological improvement, but without the help of these big shots, it would likely be mere wishful thinking.
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"It would be great if AtL could be the first enterprise to take the plunge!"
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Even after Yao Qianxun's birthday party ended, Ou Yunchen's mind was still replaying this sentence.
He should apply blockchain to AtL, and he also had a premonition that blockchain would become a core development element for future enterprises!
Ou Yunchen held the business card from Li Xiaokai in his hand. He didn't know if this would be an opportunity to discover a new world, but he decided to knock on that door!