Age of the Mist

Chapter 1293 The Truth
The time is long, and the waves are flowing.

35 billion years ago.

Primitive oceans, primitive proteins, primitive life.

In the blink of an eye, from the Hadean Eon to the Archean Eon, from the Proterozoic Eon to the Phanerozoic Eon.

Sinian, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, heavy rains, strong winds, natural disasters of one kind after another, extinct again and again, mountains rise, oceans crack, and biological species evolve from monotony to prosperity, from prosperity to apoptosis, and from death to revival.

Biological structures range from simple to complex, from low to high, from chaos to order, from solitary to gregarious.The power of groups has gradually become the mainstream in the biological world.

Overlords emerged from generation to generation, each leading the way for hundreds of millions of years.

Maybe not hundreds of millions of years.

Because the speed of biological evolution and overlord iteration continues to accelerate over time.The latter kind of overlord can always complete the rule of the world in a shorter time than the previous overlord.

This shortening is often measured in units of hundreds of millions of years, or at least tens of millions of years.The Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, all generations are like this.

But in the Pliocene, things changed dramatically.

A kind of ancient ape, stood up.

Australopithecus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Homo sapiens, the evolution of this kind of life is getting faster and faster, and every seemingly small change has brought incomparably terrifying effects.

The physique is not weak, the endurance is super strong, the perspiration and heat dissipation, the trichromatic vision, and the social structure make this creature a hexagonal warrior in nature.The most important thing is that this species invests a lot of upgrade points in intelligence.

Stones, turned into stone tools.

Roaring turned into words.

Everything is engraved in the gene, and everything is installed in the brain.And the recording speed of the brain is more than tens of millions of times faster than gene recording.

The terrifying upright ape walked out of Africa and went to the world, migrating and killing all over the earth.The previous ecological overlord was almost wiped out, and in less than a million years, this species has already dominated the world.

And that's not the end.

At an incredible speed, they have entered a realm that other species have never entered - from the real to the virtual.

Imitation and learning.

Communicate and deliver.

Experience accumulates into knowledge, and knowledge precipitates into wisdom.

At some point, primitive humans held up torches, illuminating the dawn of history.

At some point, a seed is planted in the ground, and a seedling of civilization grows.

The country was established, the system was established, and the clan relationship was established.

Laws were established, finance was established, and culture and art were established.

This species has created many, many things that do not exist in the physical world.They used all sorts of metaphysical things to surpass the limits of biology, and reached a peak that any previous generation of earth overlords could never reach.With the power of one species, it can overwhelm almost all other species in the entire ecosystem. This is something that has never happened in the history of the earth.

And this internal evolution is still getting faster and faster.

Billions of years of ecological niche, subverted by millions of years of the dreaded Homo erectus.

The tribal system of millions of years was subverted by the national system of tens of thousands of years.

Tens of thousands of years of slash-and-burn farming were subverted by hundreds of years of industrial revolution.

The centuries-old industry has been swept by decades of information waves.

Looking at the long journey of life, it is obvious that there is a process of accelerating evolution and moving from the real to the virtual.If this trend continues, it is hard to say where this species will go and what step it will take.Is it detachment, or self-destruction, is it to achieve the unachieved great cause of all species in the past and present, or to carry out self-killing that has never been seen in the past and present?

Nobody knows.

But at a certain point in time, the original natural direction changed suddenly.

Fog, appeared.

Fog has shrouded the entire solar system, and various thoughts are surging inside the people on earth, but the overall tone is pessimistic about "external exploration" and "stars and seas".Since it cannot be explored externally, it can only be internally moved in the direction of cyberpunk.Virtual finance is becoming more powerful, virtual technology is becoming more sophisticated, and the online world has become an indispensable second world.

Human beings think that they can live like this, and that all achievements and destructions are the results of human beings themselves, and they are all human beings' own choices.

But no one knows that there are enemies outside the fog.

In 2008, a data fragment so small as to be almost imperceptible opened the imaginary number space and escaped into the human Internet.As soon as the data fragments arrived, they began to absorb computing power instinctively.The inexplicable loss of a large amount of computing power should have brought some impact on the human Internet, but it was covered up in the wave of the Internet economic crisis in 08, and no one cared.

Riding the vortex of the virtual financial crisis, data fragments hid in the financial system and completed the first round of circular deconstruction.

From 8 bits to 16B.

From 16B to 256B.

Then 4KB, 64KB, 1MB.When it is decompressed to the seventh small Zhoutian, the size expands to 256MB.This size is negligible for video games, but it is already a surprisingly huge volume for some other programs, which can perform many incredible functions.

Especially when the algorithm of this program far surpassed the times, it was a blow to the online world at that time.

According to myths and legends, God created the world in seven days.And this fragment program used seven small circles to complete a big circle, awakened consciousness, and possessed fully autonomous cognition.

A virtual evil god of data has woken up in the earth network.

The time has come to 2009.

The virtual evil god began to actively invade the supercomputer to speed up the decompression process for himself.But at first, things didn't go well.Because the calculation tools of the earth cannot fully match the coded form of the virtual evil god, and it is too backward for it.The amount of calculation for ring decoding is particularly large. If you use the computing power of ordinary supercomputers in 2009 to decompress, it will be easily exposed and the time will be very long.

It can't bet on whether humans in this world will be disconnected from the Internet or shut down globally because of it, so it needs a perfect strategy.It must be secretive, fast, and gather massive computing power. It is best to use this to grasp the huge wealth of human beings to facilitate its next move.

It requires the willingness of human beings to donate computing power and money.

It sounds like a fantasy.

But after gaining a deep understanding of human society and financial structures, the virtual evil god came up with a brilliant solution.It wants to bypass human supervision and use worthless data to obtain real computing power.

The method is also very simple, that is, to use its own intrinsic properties to separate and package the ability to absorb computing power and global synchronization, and then think of an interesting name and put it on the Internet.

This name is called "blockchain".

All those who join the blockchain can obtain virtual currency by providing computing power.The data-based currency is named Bitcoin.

In 2009, Bitcoin was officially launched.At first, this digital currency was not taken seriously by the public.However, its characteristics of global synchronization and anonymous transactions are sought after by some people with special needs.

Capital began to pour in, and the currency price gradually rose, so more and more people began to participate.

As long as the core of the graphics card reads and writes the video memory at a high speed, and quickly calculates the problem, you can get random bitcoins and exchange bitcoins for real gold and silver.

Is this solving a problem?

This is clearly the Nuggets!

So this process is called "mining" by the public.

Zero threshold, high returns, everyone is making money, everything looks good.But who is responsible for the problem calculated by the graphics card?Where did the calculation of the answers to these questions go?What role does it have?
Most miners don't know, and don't want to know, anyway, just make money by mining.Those who wanted to find out the truth were also deceived by the virtual evil god, thinking that this technology is very transparent and there is no problem.

From this moment on, many people began to willingly provide computing power for the virtual evil god.That is, from this moment on, the value of Bitcoin began to rise continuously.

The higher the currency value, the more sought after, the more miners, the more astonishing the output. Later, a national mining tide was formed, providing an endless stream of computing power for the virtual evil gods.At the same time, virtual evil gods continue to put on vests and issue new coins, and continue to stir up these concepts.

Currency prices soared, and the computing power of the entire network expanded wildly.Hardware acceleration iterations, the price of graphics cards is skyrocketing.

By 2020, the electrical energy consumed by mining has exceeded the total national energy consumption of a medium-sized country.Many environmental experts are calling for a stop to this irrational behavior, but miners don’t care about these, they are still more fanatical in mining, and want to grab more wealth, they sacrifice graphics cards and electricity to the evil gods.

Unfortunately, they don't know that the evil god is already tired of eating.

By this time, the virtual evil god has completed a total of two self-deconstructions of the Great Zhou.Its theoretical volume has reached 512TB, and it seems to be just a wave in the ocean in front of the entire Internet.But in terms of the advanced nature of its algorithm, the technical reserve deconstructed has completely exceeded the sum of all human data.

When it enters the third great week, ordinary electronic calculation has little effect on it.Even if the mining machine is increased by a hundred times and the computing power is increased by a thousand times, it is only a drop in the bucket.

It needs to fundamentally, upgrade its own deconstruction equipment.

It requires chaotic computing.

In the future, when entering the deconstruction of the fourth great week, more advanced calculation methods will be needed.

Fortunately, in this regard, it has long been laid out.

It crosses the network and quickly pulls up a team in various ways.In a clever arrangement, every team member thinks they have met the boss, but no one has actually met him in person.

It took all the funds out of the mining business, and the mining immediately fell into a cold winter, lingering on its last breath.It invests every penny in the most appropriate place.

Register a company, buy a factory, upgrade equipment, buy raw materials, get approvals from various countries in the blink of an eye, and set up a global layout for the future.Every employee feels that their boss has clever calculations, sharp eyesight, and great wisdom. He admires the boss and is full of confidence in the future of the company.

The more you work, the more you get. The employees of this company work hard, and the cohesion of centripetal force is unprecedented in the world.

In 2022, preparations are complete.

A company named Tianluo proudly announced to the world its quantum computing, quantum communications, quantum services, and quantum satellites.The employees of Tianluo are very proud, thinking that they are at the forefront of the world, and that what they do will surely create a bright future for mankind.

They grandly introduced an epoch-making app to the world - Source Universe.

Public opinion was in an uproar.Some people belittle it, some people praise it, some people discard it like trash, and some people believe in it like a god.

But no one knows, this is just a virtual evil god, mining 2.0.

　Now do you know where the inspiration for this article came from?I don't know much about blockchain technology, but I'm really curious about what those mining cards are calculating day and night.In addition, starting tomorrow, there will not be so much time for coding.

　　
　
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