Franklin of the Coin Circle——Bikan Team

Chapter 0 A serious question: How can we live a meaningful life?

All people with sound thinking ability and who consider themselves smart will sooner or later, systematically or sporadically, think about some questions: How can we live a meaningful, valuable, moral, and helpful life? Which of these is the most important?

I'm a bit stupid. This problem was actually added to my list of problems to be solved when I was 26 years old, and it is still on that list.

With this question in mind, I often read celebrity biographies. I just finished reading "Ben Franklin", yes, the founding father of the United States, a famous scientist, thinker, writer, politician, educator, social activist...

"He strangled the thunderbolt by the throat from the air, and restored the scepter from the tyrants to the people."

In fact, he is a businessman, a businessman who has permeated business thinking into all the above "family" identities.

What I am going to write today is not an article praising Franklin, and I dare not come to educate others on the meaning of life (I myself live in confusion). I want to praise the Bikan team which is about to turn three years old.

Is this a soft article? No, this is a hard article, and I paid a lot of money to read the old men and beautiful girls. Then this is a reading experience, after reading "The Biography of Benjamin Franklin". (The Biography of Benjamin Franklin is a good book, a book that can show us how people should live)

Chapter 1: Respect Ghosts and Gods but Keep Them Away

You may be confused at first glance at this subtitle. Don't worry, let me explain it to you slowly.

In the past few months, we who work on Bitcoin have been arguing over one thing every day. Whether to expand the capacity, how to expand, the arguments are endless. But the Bikan team is not arguing about this. They care about this very much, but they don't shout about how to do it.

I keep shouting about this, and I know why I shout about it. Two reasons: 1. I want to show my presence. 2. I am full of anxiety, and I am always afraid that Bitcoin will go the wrong way. You say that shouting about this is a waste of time and does not make money, and it hurts people's feelings. How can my words affect the direction of Bitcoin? Think about it, I am just a worthless person, an idiot.

It's strange to see those old men and young girls. They go to all kinds of expansion conferences. But they never use it to show their presence. They don't make a fuss about what to do or what to do.

Too many people who are into Bitcoin are pretentious. They always talk about being great, revolutionary, and creating a new era.

What I actually see in these various slogans is not a kind of halo-like pride, but a kind of dim inferiority.

Franklin lived in a Puritan family. His father prayed every day and revolved around God every day. But Franklin was very strange. He didn't say he didn't believe it, nor did he say he did. Someone asked him if he believed in Jesus. He said, "I don't know much about this, and I haven't done any research. But you see, I'm so old, I'll know soon." Throughout his life, Franklin had always been so frivolous when he encountered serious things. But he was very serious about those practical things. He didn't read the Bible, but he studied energy-saving stoves. He didn't pray, but he invented a catheter. He didn't shout about freedom and democracy, but he went after the British MPs to settle accounts, "You see, war is not worth it." Franklin's contribution was really not epoch-making, it seemed like they were all trivial things.

People in the United States (to be precise, the British colonies) during the time when Franklin lived prayed every day. They thought every day, "I am a sinner, can I go to heaven after I die, can God save me?" They reflected on themselves every day, reflecting on their sins.

In fact, many of us who are involved in Bitcoin are a bit similar. What great revolution, what social form..., every day they stick some useless things on Bitcoin.

From what I know about the Bikan team, they don’t do these empty things. They like to do something practical and build something useful for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

You say they made the CoinView APP, is it great? It’s nothing special, it just lets you check the market and information. The market is also borrowed, and the information is also borrowed.

You say they are making their hashrate public, is that great? It’s nothing, they are not setting up a mining farm to protect Bitcoin.

You say they always organize some activities, is that awesome? Nothing, they just add some spice to this era of entertainment to death.

They never care about the golden road that Bitcoin leads to to da moon, they only care about whether they can let you see the real-time price of Bitcoin while sitting on the bus.

They never care whether Bitcoin will save people suffering from inflation. They only care about whether they can let you see if your mining machine is malfunctioning when you are on a date.

On the surface, they seem to care about whether the blockchain is congested, but in fact, they are more concerned about whether they can develop a better-use wallet.

They seem to be crawling on the ground, as if they don't understand the true nature of Bitcoin.

Where is it?

On the surface, they didn't make any great applications, but their various functions met the needs of one user after another.

They don’t seem to have created wealth for this society, but they use their wisdom to bring endless joy to Bitcoiners time and time again.

They didn't make any major innovations, but through their connection, they really created a more transparent and less fraudulent business ecosystem.

They never claim to be the "best", "first", "biggest", etc., but the things they do are always working.

They don't seem to have any great ideas, but their hard work and diligence have inspired one entrepreneur after another and become role models for entrepreneurs.

Chapter 2: Harmony Brings Wealth

Bitcoin has only been around for seven years, and it is a huge blue ocean. But in our cryptocurrency circle, there are too many bloody incidents of mutual killing.

We can get a little inspiration from Franklin's story. The Constitutional Convention of the founding of the United States was the great Continental Congress. Franklin came to the meeting every day, but he had no opinions, and he did not intervene in the disputes among the states. What did he do every day? "Don't be angry, don't quarrel, come back and talk, tell you a joke..." But his role was great. Franklin's instinct to make money through harmony and his ability to connect all parties really made the United States a great country.

Franklin was such a person. To put it nicely, he was open-minded. To put it bluntly, he had no bottom line. When the British were fighting the American colonies, Franklin went to the British Congress and said, "Why fight? It's better to do some business and make money." The French looked down on the Americans, so Franklin went to the French ministers and said, "Look, the British are bullying us. Can you lend us some money?"

The bloody things in our cryptocurrency circle, quarrels! I can’t say that quarrels happen every day, but they do happen every month.

But when have you ever seen the Bikan team quarrel with others? Not only do they not quarrel, but they are also very good at making money through harmony, just like Franklin.

You see, all the information on their Bikan APP is copied. But I have never seen any website or author scold them. It's very strange.

In our circle, exchanges are fighting each other, let's see what other people's coins are doing. One APP can deal with several exchanges. Come to my place to buy coins.

They organize activities every day, such as singing and guessing riddles. I have no idea what they are doing, but it seems like they are just having fun together and making money.

No matter how they quarrel with each other, it seems that all the bigwigs in the circle are willing to go to Bikan to sing and play the piano. It's crazy.

They don’t know how they got bank bosses, filmmakers, game developers, etc. to work with them. I don’t know if it’s because they have too much money or the beauties are too pretty. They are like a bottle of 502, able to glue together all kinds of conflicting interests or complementary ones. It’s quite remarkable.

Chapter 3: Live an interesting life

In early 2015, I saw an advertisement. In the advertisement, Bill Gates wore some very strange clothes, dressed himself up as a bird and a monkey, held a lollipop, had feathers all over his head, took a lot of photos, and said some very cute and funny words. It was pieced together into an advertisement, as if it was promoting a website.

I have forgotten what the ad was about, but I remember Bill Gates was being cute. A man worth more than $40 billion was being cute. The world's richest man was marketing based on happiness.

OMG.

Franklin was also such an interesting person. Franklin's grandson said of the 75-year-old Franklin, "Other old people are always full of complaints and dissatisfaction, but my grandfather is always smiling and humorous like a young man."

Franklin was indeed too frivolous, telling jokes and having fun everywhere, playing chess in a lady's bathroom, sleeping in the same bed with a British minister, and talking nonsense.

I often hear complaints about those born in the 90s and 00s, saying that they are frivolous, that they squat at the subway entrance, and that they only know how to play games...

Don't rush to complain, think about whether you are too serious.

Having a social life in an interesting way and earning respect among your friends is a very meaningful way to live.

It seems that these old men and young girls live very interesting lives. They always sing and play the piano in a frivolous way. They are not thinking about how to make a big news or make a big profit, but how to hold a welcoming party. They are not always thinking about great ideals, but often thinking about weaving jokes.

One time, He Yi from OKCoin organized a very memorable event. Their girls held a big sign that said "Seriousness is a disease" and gave condoms to everyone they met. It was very interesting.

Chapter 4 Conclusion

Do the most concrete and practical things, and do them diligently, instead of just talking about big principles; use interesting ways to gain social life and win interesting respect; make more money, make legitimate money, and win the life you want. Such people or teams are very worthy of praise.

Happy 3rd birthday to Bikan, and most importantly, happy birthday to those old men and beautiful girls.

Thanks for reading.

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Author: tan90d (Weibo @LightningHSL WeChat tan90d)
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