Chapter 219: One Thousand Bitcoins for a Bowl of Hot Dry Noodles

On June 6, the new year's college entrance examination came to an end.

When the Internet was once again swept by the trend of score estimation and college application guidance, the South Africa World Cup opened as scheduled. The Xinghuo Video reporter team arrived in advance along with the CCTV team, and countless fans on the Internet also gathered on the Xinghuo Video Sports Channel to discuss the matter heatedly.

Wang Chengguang drove to a residential area near Beihang University during dinner time. Today was the official beta test of WeChat QR code payment. For this beta test, a group of night market stall owners, convenience stores, supermarkets and other retail groups were specially selected in reality, and they were invited to participate in the internal test with Xinghuo.

Wang Chengguang had just gotten out of the car. Wu Xiaowei was wearing a mask in the passenger seat when her cell phone rang. He grabbed it and saw it was Zhong Miaomiao. He answered it decisively. Zhong Miaomiao's voice sounded a little curious and expectant, "Brother Guang, the World Cup has started. Many people asked me who will win."

"I used to be a good news maker during the Olympics, and I predicted a lot of gold and silver medalists correctly. Now many fans are flooding my Weibo with comments."

“Should I respond?”

Wang Chengguang said happily, "You can just post a Weibo and say that you think the Dutch team can make it to the semi-finals."

Zhong Miaomiao was surprised and said, "The Dutch team? You are right? I didn't understand football and didn't watch it much before, but more than a month before the World Cup, many fans began to ask me about the situation. Many people also supported traditional strong teams such as Brazil, Germany, Italy, Argentina, etc."

Wang Chengguang affirmed, "You can predict the Dutch team first."

Da Miaomiao was happy, "Okay, if I get scolded, you have to help me scold back. By the way, many people also asked me when our national football team can enter the World Cup again."

Wang Chengguang was silent for dozens of seconds, and then complained, "You said that the national football team will be admitted sooner or later, and everyone can see that day."

After he finished talking to Da Miaomiao, Wu Xiaowei stood beside him and asked curiously, "I heard from my brother that when the World Cup starts, many gambling houses, both public and private, will start to open. Do you want to give my brother some good bets?"

Wang Chengguang was happy. "Okay, I'm more optimistic about the Netherlands this time. They can make it to the finals. Look at the odds. Let Jiang brother play by himself."

This sentence already contains too much information. Reaching the final means that the Netherlands will continue to win all the way to the semi-finals.

With all kinds of handicaps and underground gambling dens, who doesn’t have odds no matter which game it is?
They chatted and laughed along the way, and when Wang Chengguang arrived downstairs of Wang Huixia's house, a WeChat payment QR code card was already hung on his eldest cousin's cart.

Seeing this scene, Wang Chengguang felt a little dazed. After all, this was the first time he saw something like this in reality three years after traveling through time.

This familiar strangeness is a bit mind-boggling.

Wu Xiaowei looked at the sign displayed on the food truck and asked curiously, "Why are there hot dry noodles, cold noodles, and stewed eggs? Didn't the eldest sister sell fried noodles and stewed vegetables before?"

Wang Huixia came to Beijing in February last year. After a one-month or two-month adaptation period, she set up a food truck near the Beihang Night Market to sell fried noodles, stews and the like. She did not set up the stall every day, but she could earn roughly two to three thousand yuan a month, which was pretty good. She is a good cook.

Wang Chengguang laughed and said, "After a long time, we should change it occasionally. Otherwise, even the chefs themselves can't stand it because it's too mechanical."

As the two chatted, Wang Huixia and Zhang Dalong were already walking out of the corridor with a cart carrying a bunch of prepared ingredients. Seeing the two, Zhang Dalong pushed the cart over quickly, "Brother, sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Wang Chengguang smiled and said, "Let me take a look. Today is the first internal test. Although some 24-hour convenience stores and supermarkets have been open for a day, your night market stalls are only open at night. However, it is reasonable to investigate the market more."

Wu Xiaowei said happily, "Yes, sister, you will set up the stall later. Let's take some takeout first and try the scan code payment. You don't need to add friends. You can pay by scanning. No need for change. It doesn't require physical banknotes."

"I vaguely felt that this was a big deal, but it didn't seem like a big deal."

Wang Huixia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "It's definitely a big deal. At least for us small retailers, it will play a huge role. I hired someone to collect money and make change and deliver meals. Now her work can be reduced by half."

Zhang Dalong scratched his head and said, "My cousin's skills are getting better and better. How about this, I will order a bowl of hot dry noodles later and pay with Bitcoin. How about I give you 1000?"

"Last month, someone in North America bought two large pizzas with 1000 bitcoins. I bought a bowl of hot dry noodles with bitcoins, which is considered to be keeping up with the trend!"

Wang Huixia was confused. "What Bitcoin?"

Zhang Dalong's mouth was wide with laughter. "Brother Guang asked me to buy it. I reserved 100 for each of you and waited for the price to go up. Today I will use my own stock to buy you a bowl of hot dry noodles! Big sister, you have to let me catch up with the trend."

Wang Huixia opened her mouth, reached out and patted Zhang Dalong, "Just mess around, but it's up to you."

They are all family. Who would really charge money for a bowl of hot dry noodles from relatives? Besides, she also knows that this cousin from her third aunt's family has become successful and is happily living off her relatives.

Zhang Dalong's smile widened. "I've been wandering around Beijing these few days, and by the way, I asked my brother if the Xinghuo Mobile Phone Factory is hiring this summer. I don't want to go, but I'm asking on behalf of many of my schoolmates. If you want to recruit, they won't go to other companies..."

"Xiao Zhou is still in confinement after giving birth, and my little one is almost one month old."

His girlfriend Xiao Zhou was found to be more than a month pregnant at the end of August last year, and gave birth last month of May this year.

Wang Chengguang was speechless. "If you want to ask about this, can't you just make a phone call? I can't make it during the summer vacation. Lei Jun just started to contact various international chip, touch screen, camera, sensor and other manufacturers last month to make a comprehensive comparison and negotiate prices, etc."

“It would be good if it can be implemented in October this year.”

Although the factory workshops for chargers, charging cables, mobile phone metal casings, headphones and other low-tech products have been built, they can start production now by recruiting a group of employees...

But you can't produce too much of this stuff.

If too much production is released, the supply will far exceed the demand. Even if the entire factory starts production and assembly in the future, it will only depend on how many mobile phones are assembled and how many small parts and accessories can be manufactured three to five times as many.

They chatted and laughed, and when Wang Huixia had packed up the food cart and was about to push it to the night market, Zhang Dalong was still running around. He also wanted to try something new and have some fun.

Wu Xiaowei asked curiously as they walked, "Does Dalong really want to pay for this bowl of hot dry noodles with 1000 bitcoins?"

Wang Chengguang shrugged. "Let him do whatever he wants. I'm not sure how many he has mined in Hong Kong Island. I told him not to mine too much. It's useless to mine too much. I think he probably doesn't hold more than 10,000."

On May 5 last month, North America officially had its first real-world transaction between Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Zhang Dalong followed suit and bought a bowl of hot-dry noodles with 22 people, creating a very trendy gimmick.

It was not until the end of the year that the price of this thing reached 0.3 US dollars per coin.

At the end of the year, Zhang Dalong can lament that he once spent 300 US dollars, almost 2000 RMB, to buy a bowl of hot dry noodles...

In the summer of next year 2011, this thing was hyped up to 32 US dollars per coin. One thousand coins were 32000 US dollars, which was equivalent to more than 20 RMB to buy a bowl of noodles. Then it plummeted back to 0.01 US dollars per coin.

Even if Wang Chengguang is also a capitalist, compared with things like the cryptocurrency circle, he is still a bystander with a painful and volatile outlook. ………………

Night falls over Shanghai.

At a convenience store near an Ele.me delivery station near a university, Jack Ma bought a few bottles of water, smiled and took out his Apple 3GS, opened WeChat and scanned the code to pay.

After a simple deduction, the cashier even heard a notification sound that a few yuan had been deposited into the account through WeChat. Jack smiled and asked, "Boss, is this WeChat payment easy to use?"

The boss was very happy and said, "It's very useful. It saves a lot of labor costs. I don't have to worry about the change anymore. I used to save a lot of change from retail business. The most troublesome thing was to exchange it for 100-yuan bills and the change."

"It's so easy now. I sold more than 600 yuan today and the money was directly transferred to my bank card. I never dreamed that the QR code payment function launched by WeChat Pay would be so convenient..."

"That Xinghuo Wang is indeed a college student, a top student. This is so convenient. Hey, why do I feel that you look familiar? How many times have you come to my store today?"

Jack's expression became a little more ugly, and he smiled, "Isn't it a good thing to patronize your business?"

After chatting with the retail store owner for a while, Jack left the convenience store with a heavy step. All of this should have been his!

The original trajectory was around 2011, when Zhifubao took the lead in promoting QR code payment and collection on PC, as well as offline QR code payment and collection on mobile APP.

Only after this line between heaven and earth was opened up did it quickly sweep across the country.

Now he can only watch Wang take away everything. It's so fucked up. When he is about to reach the delivery station, Jack Ma regains his fighting spirit and focuses on the world of Ele.me.

Ele.me already has more than 170 million consumer users, more than half of whom have used WeChat wallet to pay for food orders.

This is truly a whole new blue ocean.

Renmin University's Adong made him feel a little sick, but he also knew that Adong was launched by Wang Chengguang and Big Penguin to compete with him in the market.

Jack doesn't even take a mere boy seriously!

Ele.me is charging forward with all its might in major cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Nandu and Wuhan. In addition to having internet celebrities like Gu Jia and Zhong Xiaoqin as female riders to increase popularity of the rider team, he also plans to let Milk Tea Sister, "who became popular in Nandu and was previously promoted by Alibaba as a public welfare goddess," to guest star as an internet celebrity rider during the summer vacation.

No matter what happened in the past, Milk Tea Sister served as Alibaba's charity education ambassador for a month or two, and accumulated millions of fans.

Just then, Jack's cell phone rang. He was a little surprised when he saw it. It was a call from Milk Tea Sister.

After the call was connected, the person on the other end said weakly, "Mr. Ma, Mr. Liu from JD.com contacted me and said he wanted me to switch to JD.com and become the promotion ambassador..."

Before he could finish his words, Jack almost threw his phone in anger. Damn, his Taobao and Zhifubao teams were basically emptied out by Xiao Ma Ge and Wang Chengguang. It would be fine, but a mere Dongzi came to poach talents? ?

………………

A new day, June 6, Wang Chengguang arrived at the Xinghuo WeChat department early in the morning.

After checking, he found that there were no mistakes, whether it was the consumer payment side or the small retailers who were busy withdrawing their sales to their bank cards at the end of the day. He then called all the WeChat department employees together and said into the microphone in the conference room, "Congratulations, everyone! We have won another battle!"

"All employees in the payment and security teams have been given a first-level rating. I won't say more. WeChat will definitely go public in the next three years or so. I won't estimate how many billions its market value will be. 10% of the option pool is reserved for all the heroes!"

"Whether you want to seize the opportunity and become a billionaire overnight depends on your performance!"

As soon as he said this, thunderous cheers broke out in the conference room, especially from the executive vice president who was recruited through a headhunting company, and other vice presidents who were in charge of specific departments.

These executives have the greatest hope of getting shares in the option pool, the difference lies in how much they get. The executive vice president knows that ICBC lent Wang Chengguang 14 billion US dollars in order to buy 20% of the shares during the pre-IPO valuation.

Based on the current exchange rate, this 14 billion US dollars is more than 92 billion RMB, and the overall estimate of Spark WeChat is more than 460 billion RMB.

This is the previous valuation. When the first valuation was given at US$6 million, WeChat had only more than 1000 million users. When the second valuation was given, WeChat had just launched red envelopes and change transfers... Although the total number of registered users has exceeded 2 million.

But the bank card binding function has not yet appeared!
Not to mention the offline QR code payment and collection, which is another small step forward for society.

As long as the QR code payment and collection system successfully passes the internal and public tests offline, the executive vice president, as a working person in the workplace, will know that if you go to the bank for valuation, it will not be difficult for WeChat to break the 100 billion market value mark, and it is within reach.

A 10% option pool with a market value of hundreds of billions or more.

Amid the thunderous cheers of the crowd, the executive vice president and several other vice presidents looked at each other and said directly to Wang Chengguang, "Don't worry, President Wang, we will live in the company during the internal beta test and the initial stage of the public beta test!"

"This battle has gone smoothly until today..."

They have already reached the threshold of becoming wealthy and achieving class transcendence. Anyone who goes against them will be regarded as a murderer of their fathers and mothers.

Ordinary employees are of course also very happy. All relevant personnel have been promoted one level, which basically means that those with an annual salary of 48000 will be promoted to 64000, and those with an annual salary of 6.4 will be promoted to 8, and the 8 will continue to rise...

There are nine levels of standards, with an annual salary of 8 for the third level and 9 for the fourth level, all based on the premise of an eight-hour work week and two days off a week, no overtime or late nights, and various holidays.

Even if an overtime maniac comes, it won't work. The Spark System only allows overtime of 2 hours at most. Only a rotation-rest maniac can easily double or even triple the annual salary of their respective levels.

After all, the salary is three to five times that on major holidays.

After Wang Chengguang left the conference room, groups of employees, under the command of the vice presidents, took a rest when they needed to rest, and those who worked the night shift had their salaries doubled, and those who needed to work went to work.

The most popular one among all is Spark.

Wang Chengguang had just arrived at the door of the president's office when he received a call from Vice President Xu. The moment he answered the call, Vice President Xu's shocked voice rang out, "Where are you, President Wang? I'll go visit you. QR code offline payment, our WeChat is really going to change the times!!"

This is our WeChat, that’s right!

(End of this chapter)