In 2013, I just opened a small ** in Beijing, when my wife bought some virtual currency called "Bitcoin", which aroused my interest and concern.
However, 2013 was the time when Bitcoin was just emerging, and the market was full of excitement. When my wife happily announced that Bitcoin had doubled, I realized that this might be a chance to change my fate.
Over the next decade, I became a figure known as a "legend", accumulating tens of billions of assets, but I was also controversial because of what more people saw as "**".
However, is the "ghost" Guo Hong a cow or a **?This is a complex and profound issue.
Many people jokingly called me "Guo Guicai" because I was flexible and good at words, but I was not a good student in school. I was born in 1985 in the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi Province, and grew up in a merchant family.
Although I was not careful enough in my studies, I showed a talent for astuteness. In 2003, when the college entrance examination score was released, I only scored 300 points, and I had no chance to enter a first-class university. But I was determined to challenge Tsinghua University, and used the 10,000 yuan given by my family to start a business**, rented a small house next to Tsinghua University in Beijing, and studied on my own for three years.
In order to make a living, I sold pirated CDs on campus, and this life lasted for three years. After saving up a little money, I decided to ride my bike alone across the Sichuan-Tibet Line, which was an exciting and eye-opening experience.
On the Sichuan-Tibet line, I got acquainted with a traveling team and met Jin Yangyang, a female college student in the team. Our relationship quickly warmed up and eventually came together. In 2008, Jin Yangyang graduated from university and married me.
In order to pursue greater development, we decided to come to Shanghai to start a business. There, I opened a ** to sell Pingyao beef from my hometown. Business was booming at first, but as competition intensified, business gradually declined. In 2013, we decided to leave Shanghai and move to Beijing.
In Beijing, Jin Yangyang attended a gathering of entrepreneurs and heard the introduction of Bitcoin. Intrigued by the prospect of this virtual currency, she invested a large amount of money to buy Bitcoin. This worries me because I think it's a risk.
My husband and wife had a dispute over this, but with the soaring price of Bitcoin, I gradually saw a business opportunity. I invested money to buy equipment for bitcoin mining and opened a mining farm in Inner Mongolia. This move puts us at the forefront of the Bitcoin industry.
However, I didn't stop there, I set up a bitcoin trading platform and spread the word through various means. For a period of time, I became a "big guy in the crypto world" with my unique influence in the Bitcoin field.
However, I didn't rest on my laurels, and I launched a virtual currency called "Aircoin", which became the focus of more people's attention. This virtual currency lacks physical value, but it attracts a large number of investors.
As virtual currency platforms continue to emerge and disappear, many people have become victims. The authorities have banned these platforms on charges of illegal fundraising, but the losses of the victims are irreparable.
And I, because I had already accumulated a huge amount of wealth, chose to take my family to the United States, bought a large estate, planted leeks, and named it "Leek Manor".
In the U.S., I didn't rest on my laurels and set my sights on a larger market. In October 2022, I announced that I would be the CEO of Twitter and would try to grow Dogecoin with Twitter. This move caused a storm, but in the end it was just a porcelain drama.
Now, I am lying in the "leek manor", and whether I am still waiting for a new "leek" to take the bait, perhaps only time will tell. Bitcoin is a turbulent investment storm, and each participant has their own struggles and choices.