My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 187 - 156: How Can It Be Considered Gambling If There’s No Risk?

Chapter 187: Chapter 156: How Can It Be Considered Gambling If There’s No Risk?

"I loved too foolishly, too naively..."

While he was musing, the ringtone of the mobile phone in his pocket sounded, and as luck would have it, it was "Cao Cao" calling.

"Hello!" Meng Lang picked up the phone.

"Ah Lang, my dad was discharged from the hospital today, and my parents said you should come over for dinner tonight to thank you properly."

"Really? That’s great news! How is uncle recovering?"

The day of the surgery, Duan Xian sent a message saying the operation had gone smoothly, and judging by the time, it was indeed about time for the discharge.

"The doctor said the wound has almost healed, and once the sternum is fused, there should be no major issues."

"That’s wonderful news! Yes, I’ll definitely come over tonight to see uncle!"

After hanging up, Meng Lang was in high spirits.

People around him were slowly altering their destined trajectories.

Everyone took it for granted, and everyone was oblivious, that a tiny butterfly was subtly influencing the fate of the world.

There were no traces of wings in the sky, but I have already flown...

Feeling a sense of accomplishment, Meng Lang felt even more motivated.

After bustling about for a few more minutes, he finally managed to fill the bookshelf completely.

Meng Lang solemnly placed the book "When a Meteor Crosses the Sky" into an inconspicuous corner of the shelf.

After scrutinizing it for a while, he nodded in satisfaction.

"Perfect!"

...

He sat back down at his desk, then turned on the computer and began today’s work according to plan—making money!

Having just spent 50 million US dollars on a risk-free "venture capital," his personal coffer had significantly decreased.

Aside from the shares held by proxy by Gao Yuan and Mengshan Pasture, his remaining liquid assets consisted of about 9 million US dollars in Bitcoin and a little over a million in RMB in his own account.

It was still short of a small target, which made Meng Lang feel insecure.

Conducting scientific research was damn costly. How could he achieve his big goals without even a small target?

His brothers were responsible for charging into the fray; how could he let his brothers run "out of ammunition and food"?

Strength and strategy are the basic forces of war.

What Meng Lang needed to do was to strive to manage the present until a hopeful future.

He logged into the "Other Shore Exchange" he had previously registered with, performed some operations, and transferred all the remaining Bitcoin from his wallet.

The Other Shore Exchange is the largest digital asset exchange for Virtual Coins in the world, with a daily trading volume that peaks over ten billion US dollars.

He chose this exchange firstly because of its relatively good security.

Secondly, its massive trading volume meant that although he held a considerable amount of Bitcoin, it was just a drop in the ocean compared to the daily turnover, making it inconspicuous among the major players.

For the sake of information security, Meng Lang opted not to use real name verification—fortunately, in 2018, the transparency of the Other Shore Exchange was not high, allowing non-real name registrations.

He opened the Bitcoin trading page, then took out a chart printed on an A4 paper.

Yes, it was the "Bitcoin price trend chart"!

From this price trend chart, it could be seen that after a surge of over 18 times in 2017, Bitcoin had plummeted from 18,000 US dollars to 3,500 US dollars between January 2018 and January 2019.

The price had shrunk by 80%, turning from a surge to a crash, making a thrilling rollercoaster ride.

Meng Lang decided to liquidate these Bitcoins, also to avoid this year’s potential Bitcoin asset crash.

He finally shifted his gaze to the "death candle" of April 10, 2018.

The reason he had waited until today was for that!

Even without comments, Meng Lang could imagine how tragic it would be to wake up to find a car or even a house gone.

In the last two days, he had been observing the Bitcoin market, which matched the price trend chart he held, so he chose today, a "good day," to make his move.

The market had just opened, he checked the current price, then directly selected a 20-fold leverage and started to short sell, bit by bit.

Not until he had put most of his chips in, reserving some capital to prevent a forced liquidation, did he stop.

The price curve remained stable, only edging down a few dollars, clearly his orders hadn’t caused much of a stir.

He set the profit target, ready to close the positions immediately once the profit reached the target.

Experience had proven that greed beyond a small target is the original sin!

Checking the time, Meng Lang began his patient wait.

Casually, he picked up a book still smelling of ink from the shelf, "Blockchain Technology Applications," and began to flip through it nonchalantly while brewing himself a cup of tea.

Meng Lang was very calm, even though he had wagered over 50 million RMB.

Watching the winds rise and clouds surge, calmly awaiting the clouds to unfold.

"Investment without soul," is destined to be fate...

...

"Hmm... kind of interesting,"

Meng Lang slowly turned the pages of the book in his hand.

Strangely enough, for a literature major who got headaches from numbers, he now found himself enjoying professional IT books.

"Too bad, it’s a bit rough. Not enough substance, too many filler words."

He continued reading at a rapid pace.

He understood it and even discussed it with great enthusiasm.

This might just be the "new toy phase" for a playful child who just got a new toy...

Speaking of which, blockchain is actually a very interesting disruptive internet technology.

Human civilization had evolved from an "identity society" to a "contractual society," and blockchain holds the promise of leading humanity from a "contractual society" to a society of "smart contracts."

Its real value isn’t in virtual coins, but as a trustworthy "information sharing mechanism" that makes information sharing more transparent and efficient!

Efficient?

Meng Lang was inexplicably captivated by this word.

If technological progress and massive capital investment are "force," then research efficiency is "skill."

Breaking skill with force is certainly possible, just burn money.

But if one can enhance "skill," it could leverage a small effort for a great effect, achieving twice the result with the same amount of money.

The "computer neural system model" he was currently developing was just such a "skill" to help accelerate research efficiency.

It’s just that this skill could only accelerate the research of "neural system" related projects.

Blockchain, however, offered a different kind of efficiency enhancement – comprehensive, extensive, even affecting the whole society!

"Efficient information sharing, huh..." Meng Lang stroked his chin.

Technology, too, is a form of information.

And today’s technology is bounded by national borders, which greatly hinders the efficiency of Earth’s technological development. If only there could be a borderless platform for sharing technology...

Are Earth people about to soar?

If we could introduce advanced blockchain technology to the present, could humanity’s technology in 2043 reach the levels of 2044, or even 2045?

In a sense, accelerating the evolution of technology is like indirectly delaying Doomsday, buying time for his own salvation efforts?

Remember, medical technology is also influenced by a synergy of various disciplines like computing, materials, physics, chemistry, and more.

The more Earth’s overall technology advances by a notch, the greater the hope of cracking the madness disease increases.

He stood on the shoulders of Changqing Biological, but Changqing Biological stood on the shoulders of the whole Earth...

Is he short of people and money?

Of course he is!

But what he’s really short of is time!

"So what exactly should be done? Use blockchain to create a ’CNKI’?"

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Just then, a series of transaction alerts on his computer broke Meng Lang’s train of thought.

He looked up and saw that straight downward curve...

Checking his account, he found that all his positions had closed, and a small target quietly lay in the account balance.

In just one morning, Meng Lang had earned over 50 million RMB...

"Named the market, actually a gambling den, this is just too damn thrilling!"

Even Meng Lang, who had come to view money as just numbers, couldn’t help but marvel at how quickly this activity amassed wealth.

What? Do you say Meng Lang is gambling?

How can it be gambling if there’s no risk!

He couldn’t help but open the discussion group and glanced at the already boiling various comments.

"Holy moly! Harvesting leeks!"

"What happened to one coin one villa, one coin one tender model!"

"Boundless Heaven! One day in the coin circle, a year in the human world!"

"Faced with harvest, I remain indifferent! Don’t talk to me about technical analysis, I gamble with coins with all in!"

Meng Lang couldn’t help but shake his head.

He quietly shut down the computer.

You study the market, thinking it’s finance, only to realize it’s economics, then discover it’s policy, so you study policy.

Then you find it’s actually history, you begin to study history, and in the end you realize...

It’s all damn human nature!