"Can you trust that Bitcoin thing?You're spending your money in vain!”
In 2013, Guo Hongcai, who was opening a ** in Beijing, heard that his wife had bought a virtual currency called "Bitcoin", and he couldn't help but be furious.
However, 2013 was another glorious year after the launch of Bitcoin.
When his wife triumphantly told Guo Hongcai that his bitcoin had doubled, he suddenly woke up: the opportunity to change his fate has come!
In the next 10 years, he became a "legend" in the eyes of many people, harvested tens of billions of assets, and became a "fraudster" in the eyes of more people.
So, Guo Hongcai, who staged the counterattack of Dick Si, is he a bull or a **?
Many people say that Guo Hongcai should be called "Guo Guicai", this person is shrewd and can speak, but his Xi grades are not good when he goes to school.
In 1985, Guo Hongcai was born in the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi, because his family is a businessman, he has been in business since he was a child.
Although he doesn't care about Xi, he looks like a clever child.
In 2003, after the results of the college entrance examination came out, the score of 300 points was destined for him to fail even a third-rate school, but he was very high-minded, and he pretended to be Tsinghua University.
During that time, he came to Beijing with 10,000 yuan from his family to start a business**, rented a small house next to Tsinghua University, and went to Tsinghua University to take classes when he had nothing to do.
In order to support himself, he also sold pirated CDs on campus for 3 years.
After saving a little money, his innate restlessness made him decide to ride a bicycle alone on the Sichuan-Tibet line, which he found to be both exciting and allowed him to see the wider world.
On the Sichuan-Tibet line, he met a traveling convoy and met Jin Yangyang, a female student in the team who was studying in Sichuan.
Soon, Jin Yangyang was attracted by Guo Hongcai, who was eloquent and determined, and Guo Hongcai also liked this beautiful and cool female college student, and the relationship between the two quickly heated up.
Not long after, Guo Hongcai followed Jin Yangyang back to his hometown and directly introduced himself to Jin Yangyang's parents, saying that he was Yangyang's boyfriend, and the relationship between the two was confirmed.
In 2008, Jin Yangyang graduated from university and married Guo Hongcai.
After the two discussed, they came to Shanghai to start a business, because e-commerce was surging at that time, so Guo Hong decided to register a ** online to sell Pingyao beef in his hometown.
At first, because of catching up with the e-commerce outlet, Guo Hongcai's beef business became bigger and bigger, and the husband and wife also made a lot of money.
But as soon as something makes money, the more people pour in, and with more and more online stores opening and constantly renovating, Guo Hongcai's beef shop business is still not as good as day by day.
In 2013, the couple decided to leave Shanghai and go to Beijing for development.
That day, Jin Yangyang listened to a lecture by Li Xiaolai at an entrepreneur gathering, and Li Xiao talked about a virtual currency called "Bitcoin".
This kind of bitcoin is not the same as the artificially crafted traditional currency, it is mined by computer algorithms.
But this Bitcoin, although it is a virtual currency, has a physical **, and it is said to have a bright future.
Jin Yangyang listened to it and felt that this was simply God opening the door to wealth for himself.
After some research, she found some tricks and spent more than 100,000 yuan to buy a large amount of bitcoins, which was 300 yuan per piece at that time.
Guo Hongcai was anxious when he learned about it, this is the hard-earned money earned by the two of them, and he was actually invested by his wife on a virtual item that cannot be seen in real objects, which is simply crazy.
Next, the husband and wife started a crazy quarrel mode.
However, it didn't take long for Jin Yangyang to say that his bitcoin had risen to 500 yuan a piece, and in a short period of time, it was almost doubled.
Guo Hongcai, who has always been flexible, came to his senses in an instant: This is really a shortcut to making money.
After careful research, they decided that it was better to speculate on bitcoins than to mine them directly, so they invested a lot of money in buying computer equipment for mining.
Later, Guo Hongcai borrowed money to open a bitcoin mining farm in Inner Mongolia, with thousands of machines running 24 hours a day.
This time, they stepped on the front of others again, because there were not many miners at that time, and they could dig 100 a day when they were more, and at most, they could dig 500 a day.
With so many bitcoins, if you want to cash out, you have to sell them, so Guo Hong came up with a way to set up an online bitcoin trading platform.
Even so, the common people still don't recognize this kind of virtual currency, and Guo Hongcai can only find the big guy and ** to build momentum for him.
At that time, there was a program on Youku called "Yangyang Interview", and the host was Jin Yangyang, who specially invited financial influencers and celebrities from all walks of life to talk about Bitcoin and look forward to the prospects of virtual currency.
During that time, Bitcoin ** gained momentum rapidly, and it has risen to 20,000 coins, gradually entering the understanding of Chinese.
At the beginning of 2017, Guo Hongcai announced that he would establish a "virtual currency" training institution, and said that he would establish the "Whampoa Military Academy of Bitcoin".
Seeing Guo Hongcai's influence in China's virtual currency market, the Davos Forum also invited Guo Hongcai to participate, which further increased Guo Hongcai's reputation in the industry, and he was known as the "ghost boss in the currency circle".
Taking advantage of this east wind, Guo Hongcai was even more emboldened, and even launched an "air coin" similar to Bitcoin - a virtual currency that has no technical content and physical value at all.
This currency, as long as you register and pay, you can get a certain amount of virtual currency, once the virtual currency *** you can cash out.
Out of trust in Guo Hongcai, many of Guo Hongcai's "cadets" bought the air coins he launched.
At the beginning, many people made money because of it, but many people couldn't stop after making money, and directly invested all their savings into it, and ended up losing all their money.
With the increasing number of people entering and leaving the platform, more and more users have suffered huge losses, including many celebrities, and it is rumored that Wang Feng has suffered greatly.
Soon, the relevant departments found that many virtual currency platforms were a wealth trap, so they banned these platforms on the grounds of illegal fundraising, but the money invested by the victims could not be recovered at all.
And Guo Hongcai, who has already amassed tens of billions of dollars, went to the United States with his family in order to avoid legal punishment and bought a large estate in Seattle.
He did not grow flowers and plants, but planted green leeks in the manor, and named it "Leek Manor".
And this kind of behavior seems to be a merciless mockery of many victims who want to make money but have nothing to lose.
People thought that Guo Hongcai, who was worth hundreds of millions, went to the United States to enjoy the rest of his life, but he didn't think about it, he was good at building momentum, and he set his sights on a bigger cake.
In October 2022, Musk acquired Twitter, and Guo Hongcai also said on social ** that he was about to become the CEO of TWIT and hoped that Twitter and Dogecoin (a virtual currency) would grow together.
If you don't look closely, his TWIT can easily be mistaken for a close relative of Twitter, but in fact, he sells dog meat on the head of a sheep to build momentum for Dogecoin.
Soon, Musk came forward to clarify that he would personally serve as the CEO of Twitter, and this farce came to an end.
And Guo Hongcai's popularity has become popular again.
Now lying in the "leek manor", is he still waiting for a new "leek" to take the bait?
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Author: Laugh at the storm.
Editor: Chi Hong.