Bitcoin Veterans

The price of Bitcoin soared that year and blossomed in the exchanges at the beginning of the year. Too many chips were left. Don’t say who is right or wrong. I just want to dream of rising with you again!

Surpassing gold and silver, it is the gift you gave me. It has risen and fallen for several times. You sing and dance for you. Satoshi Nakamoto has aroused people's deep longing. As soon as the interview was announced, the market fell into an abyss!

Love and hate happen in an instant. Recharge and withdrawal are two different worlds. Love and hate are both vast. I ask you when you will blame Satoshi Nakamoto for hiding in the world. Who knows that my love is cold in my heart. I am drunk on the platform and dreaming about returning to Bitcoin. Buy another one!
————《Leek Drunk Coin》

At the beginning of the new year, Bitcoin surged forward, first regaining lost ground and occupying 7,000 points, then soaring straight up, breaking through and setting new highs, and directly climaxing at 8,888 points, making all Bitcoin followers ecstatic and intoxicated. Seeing that 10,000 points are just around the corner, as long as it is captured, for the "18,000 Party", it is simply a wonderful feeling of "getting a high position, riding a fine horse, enjoying delicious food, and having sex with a beautiful woman".

Unfortunately, before they could savor the excitement of the climax, a document from the central bank caused the price of the currency to plummet like mercury. The currency traders were simply "regretting that their parents didn't give them two more legs" and couldn't run faster in the market... Moreover, some platforms were stuck and could not log in as soon as the market came, and everyone could only watch the plunge and do nothing. The most pitiful are the leveraged players, who can be said to be "crying on both sides of the strait, and their positions have exploded to the sky."

As the saying goes, "If a tiger or a rhinoceros escapes from its cage, or a tortoise or a jade is destroyed in its box, whose fault is it?" Many people curse the central bank for meddling in other people's affairs, but the industry's blind optimism is something that should be reflected upon.
A tall building rises from the ground. No matter how beautiful and dreamy the castle in the air is, some problems will arise one day.

New players are beating their chests and stamping their feet, being treated as leeks and harvested cleanly. However, veteran players are calm and composed, looking sideways at the various aspects of the cryptocurrency circle.

Bitcoin players before 2013 can be regarded as veterans. I have written a lot about this before. Today, I will take a different approach and take a bystander’s perspective to talk about several Bitcoin veterans who entered the market 13 years later.

They are both loyal fans of Bitcoin and active evangelists of Bitcoin. What wonderful life experiences do they have?

Everyone, please pay attention.

1. Wang Bo

“An old horse in the stable still has a thousand miles to go.”

(I tried my best to sell books)

For some people, life is over after the age of 25, and they just repeat themselves and can basically be buried; while for some people, no matter when, they are always on the road of exploration, exploring new things. The former are the majority of mediocre people, while the latter are rare, but they can burst out the greatest glory of life.

Wang Bo can indeed be called a veteran, both in terms of age and seniority.

Being over fifty is indeed a very old age in the cryptocurrency circle. You should know that most Bitcoin players are middle-aged and young people. In fact, those born in the 1980s are the main force among the main force. There are actually not many people born in the 1970s. Wang Bo is actually in the early 1960s.

When I first met Wang Bo, I could tell that he had a simple and honest temperament like the Terracotta Warriors. After asking him carefully, I found out that he was from Sanqin. As a geological exploration expert at the Northwest Design Institute, Wang Bo often travels around the country, goes deep into barren lands, and obtains first-hand geological data. The hard work under the wind and sun has added a lot of vicissitudes to him, and wrinkles have appeared on the corners of his eyes and eyebrows. The wilderness is often sparsely populated, giving him plenty of time to think about life.

He was the chief editor of the national "Engineering Surveying Specifications" and was also responsible for the Qinghai-Tibet Railway and West-East Gas Transmission Survey Project. He is currently the person in charge of the inspection of the Gongbei Tunnel of the Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macao Bridge. In addition to his job in geological surveying, his greatest pleasure is investment. He has been studying stocks, futures, precious metals, bonds, real estate and other investment products for more than 20 years and has been invited to give lectures at universities several times. When he first saw Bitcoin, he was extremely excited and determined at first glance that it was definitely a high-quality future asset. From then on, he couldn't stop. He used the idiom "crazy" to describe his love for Bitcoin. He plunged into the currency circle and studied while investing.

"I am old, and I cannot deeply understand many technical things, so I need to learn more." He always looked ashamed and reiterated his words of humbly seeking advice, which made me feel ashamed when I heard these words. Imagine if you were over 50 years old, had abundant assets and a happy family, and held an important position in the department, but you were willing to get involved in a field from scratch and keep learning?

In fact, he is so humble that in order to promote Bitcoin, he gathered a group of people and wrote a book called "How to Invest in Digital Currency" to explain his own views and gather everyone's views. It consists of hundreds of thousands of words, which are full of inspirational and passionate words.

"The digital currency market is too chaotic right now." Whenever he talks about the market, he sighs. "Many people don't even know what Bitcoin is, but they just rush in and buy it. In addition, the country's supervision is insufficient, and there is a lack of legal legislation, which leads to rampant scammers."

“I have bought all the Bitcoin books on the market, and the more I read, the more disappointed I am. Except for a few high-quality books, most of them are junk products that are just for show, with a lot of conceptual errors… So I came up with the idea of ​​‘giving digital currency a proper name’ and ‘guiding investors to look at digital currency rationally’. I specially collected opinions from the currency circle, called on well-known people in the industry to write articles, compiled them, and actively communicated with Dong Yafeng, the editor-in-chief of the Electronic Industry Press, in order to create a high-quality book.” Speaking of the upcoming book, Wang Bo was full of confidence, “I firmly believe that content is king, and this book will be a bestseller!”

He once measured the vast deserts and towering mountains and rivers of his motherland with a rigorous spirit; now he wants to carefully turn to building a lighthouse to show everyone the brilliant achievements that digital currency may make in the future.

I hope this book will be a success!

2. Shi Lei

"The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky is high enough for birds to fly."

(The elegance of Wei and Jin Dynasties in the circle of friends)

"To play with Bitcoin, you must start as a leek." I remember when I first met Shi Lei in early 2016, I took Yingying with me, Shi Lei took Jiuyi with him, and the four of us sat around the hot pot, talking about Bitcoin. Shi Lei smiled and picked up a piece of mutton, saying so.

He has a festive round face, a small goatee on his chin, and a medium build. His appearance is ordinary, the type that you can't recognize if you throw him into a crowd. However, as soon as you meet him, you can detect that his words and deeds are quite Wei and Jin style.

Shi Lei is actually a very persistent person, and we can guess some clues from his name: one stone is not enough, so add three more stones, and he can really be regarded as "hard and solid as a rock."

Once you have determined the direction, you should keep going. This is true for life and investment. Shi Lei practices the concept of "persistence" in this way. His main job is in the game industry, and he has witnessed the rise of New Century Games. In his own words, "In the early 2000s, who was making games? But I came to Beijing at that time and finally stood firm."

He said this lightly, but everyone can imagine the scene of the gaming industry making huge profits.

The gaming industry is a fairly open one, and it is normal for people in the industry to be bold in exploration. Shi Lei is naturally keen on new things. After coming into contact with Bitcoin, he couldn't stop investing in it. He poured money into it in various ways, and if he did the math, he could be considered a big investor.

"I've tried everything, but I just didn't find Bitcoin satisfying enough, so I tried Litecoin futures. As a result, more than 200,000 Litecoins went bust..." Shi Lei grinned, "Futures are really not worth playing with. I learned my lesson and finally became wise."

Indeed, it sounds a bit painful. If the person involved really doesn't feel pain, then it would be a lie.

"Later, I started buying Bitcoins. I would buy whenever I had spare money. I bought from four or five thousand to over a thousand." Shi Lei said with certainty, "Bitcoin is definitely a good thing. I started recommending it to other people, but people didn't understand and thought I was an idiot. Later, I bought it silently on my own. I haven't counted the specific amount, but now I have probably spent three or four million, right?" When he said this, the price of the currency was still more than two thousand.

"You need to have courage and guts." When he said this, his eyes were wide open and bright. "In three to five years, people will understand how wise this investment is. They will see it and I will not move coins back and forth. I will just keep buying and hoarding them, waiting for them to appreciate in value."

His actions reminded me of a poem written by Tang Bohu: Others laugh at me for being too crazy, I laugh at others for not seeing through. As an investor, how many people dare to be so persistent? How many people deposit a large amount of funds on Bitcoin assets?

That day, we ate hotpot, sang songs, and chatted a lot. Then we went our separate ways. Before leaving, he asked me to write an article for him when the price of the coin rose to five thousand.

Time flies, and more than a year has passed in a blink of an eye. The price of the currency has rolled to a new high, but my article has not arrived as expected. I am ashamed, but a few days ago I asked my journalist friend who works at the Beijing News to interview him. I should be able to see his views in a new in-depth report in the near future.

Of course, his recognition of Bitcoin will certainly not stop at just buying the coin.

"After I finish the current project, I will develop a game related to Bitcoin." Shi Lei said in the QQ group.

The first domestically produced Bitcoin game? It is indeed worth looking forward to.

3. Lightning

"I firmly believe that I can achieve financial freedom."

(Are you clearing out the stock?)

Lightning is actually a shaft person.

The so-called axis means it is not flexible enough.

Of course, Lightning didn’t think so. He thought he was quite flexible. He ordered all the books recommended by Luoji Siwei, bought seven or eight business lectures from the “Get App”, and even bought a vegetable cutter and a cooking machine…

Lightning started buying coins in early 2014. He got into it right away, and his execution was amazing. He invested all his five years of work savings in Bitcoin, and made a cold wallet. He wrote the private key on a piece of paper, put mothballs in it, sealed it in an iron box, and gave it to his father, asking him to keep it well within five years and not to return it to him within this time limit.

He then resigned and joined the cryptocurrency circle, moving from Beijing to Shenzhen. He followed Martians, joined FC, and later started his own media to promote Bitcoin.

It is not easy to promote Bitcoin. He once held a thick stack of flyers and distributed them to everyone he met at the subway entrance; he also drove thousands of miles to carry out offline promotion; and he also updated articles on the official account every day.

It makes people feel hard and tiring just looking at it.

However, it can be seen that he sincerely hopes that Bitcoin will develop better and better. His persistence in Bitcoin is even greater than that of others. Back then, he and Xiaoxiao supported each other and walked to the credit card merchant to cash out the credit card at a high amount, and he also gritted his teeth and insisted on buying a few more Bitcoins...

He also encountered adventures that ordinary people could not imagine. For example, after an offline promotion, a stranger found him and hoped that he would continue to promote Bitcoin. He handed him a bank card and said that this was the promotion fee. After the man left, he checked the balance of the bank card and found that there was one million in it.

From then on, Lightning worked even harder to promote the product, and recorded every expense conscientiously without embezzling a single cent.

As a Bitcoin evangelist, Lightning is quite competent. He works very hard and spends a lot of time to think over an English word.

But when will he take his life seriously? He is tall and thin, and he can't grow any weight. His cooking skills are so poor that he bought a vegetable cutter and a stir-fryer, and the dishes he made are really unbearable. Wherever he went, the housing prices skyrocketed... and he missed them all.

I don’t know if he is single now, but in today’s world, houses are hard currency after all. Even his mother-in-law wouldn’t be able to stand explaining Bitcoin to his girlfriend, right?

Bitcoin can last for thousands of years, but life is only once. When will it end?

Financial freedom is certainly something to look forward to, but when will it happen? In one year? In three years? In ten years?

To him, Bitcoin is more like a heavy cross that makes it difficult for him to walk.

Lightning chose to believe that Bitcoin will eventually rise to $100,000, and his will was extremely firm. Of course, I also believe that Bitcoin will eventually rise to $100,000, but I hope he can clear his Bitcoin warehouse, unload his burden, and travel around the world with peace of mind.

Although I also know that this is his life and others should not interfere.

Of course, in the end I still shouted: Lightning has cleared the warehouse.

I hope everyone can shout out loud.

4. Cockroaches

“Tea for sale! Tea for sale! Buy tea with Bitcoin and get 20% off!”

(My face is too dark, please blur it)

This cockroach is of course not the cockroach that everyone wants to kill, but the cockroach that sells tea. The cockroach is his humble name, called: the amorous cockroach. He is called cockroach for short, and his real name is Ge. He is from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and he is really an outlier among the cryptocurrency players.

"I'm just a small trader, selling tea leaves in my spare time to make some money." The cockroach typed a smiley face, laughing, "Life is hard, boss, would you like to buy a bag of tea?"

In fact, cockroaches live a very carefree and comfortable life. They are in their thirties, live in a small villa in Hangzhou, drive an Audi car, go fishing in the ditch when they have nothing to do, and then go home to hug their wife and children happily.

This outfit may seem too casual, but don't say that Cockroach is not doing his job properly. He is a salesperson in a large state-owned enterprise. Selling tea occasionally is just a side job. If you talk about work seriously, he is also an outstanding employee who has been to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to receive awards.

"I don't deserve it, it's awarded to the company, it's just an empty title." The cockroach didn't care at all, "Boss, would you like to buy a bag of tea?"

Cockroach also bought and hoarded Bitcoins, but was fooled and lost all his money, including the principal and interest. He burst into tears and slapped his thigh when talking about it: "I was fooled by the Bitcoin Piggy Bank and lost all my coins. Wang Cong (founder of the Bitcoin Piggy Bank) looked quite honest, how could he do such a thing?"

As he spoke, he sighed, and then returned to the topic, "Boss, you see how miserable I am, why don't you buy me a bag of tea to help me?"

Cockroach is keen on Bitcoin. Whenever there is something happening in the cryptocurrency circle, you can always see him posting some funny and funny Bitcoin messages. Of course, he never forgets to add his own "West Lake Longjing" tea advertisement. Bitcoin payment discounts are indeed real. Recently, Cockroach lamented: Consumers will not pay for the tea of ​​money-loving oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, but will pay for the tea of ​​music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea. It seems that in the future, selling tea will also require telling stories and selling feelings.

In fact, the foundation of Bitcoin is merchants. Without commercial circulation, the value of Bitcoin cannot be reflected at all. Since 2013, Cockroach has been selling tea unremittingly, which can be regarded as an "outstanding contribution" to the "prosperity" of the Chinese currency circle. Otherwise, where can you find other merchants who accept Bitcoin payments in this corner of China? Do you really have to fly to Hong Kong to experience the Starbucks that accepts Bitcoin payments? Who will reimburse the round-trip airfare...

If you like Bitcoin, you don’t necessarily have to buy, sell, or hoard it, or start a Bitcoin business. Ordinary people have their own ways of supporting Bitcoin. The cockroach stood guard at his “Bitcoin tea stall,” shouting, “Boss, buy a bag of tea, there’s a 20% discount for Bitcoin payment.” It’s hilarious, and it really adds a weird and beautiful landscape to China’s Bitcoin.

Finally, let me share my personal experience. His tea is really good, fragrant and delicious. You can try it.

Bitcoin has gone up and down, but these veterans have always stood firm. They are the lowest level of the Bitcoin circle, but they are also the most solid barrier. They may be well-known or unknown, or they may be in high positions or hidden in the city, but they are all using their own little practical actions to present Bitcoin to people in various forms.

A veteran of Bitcoin, he deserves the respect of all Bitcoin players.