The top student must be diligent.

Chapter 143: The shock of the cryptocurrency circle

2 month 28 day.

HKUST, Dormitory 3, Building 313.

The four roommates got together again today.

Ye Cheng and the others were very excited to see Xiao Yi again. They pestered Xiao Yi and asked him a lot of questions, such as the details of his proof of the twin prime conjecture and how he came up with the method to develop it.

Xiao Yi had no choice but to put down his research temporarily and tell them what happened.

Listening to Xiao Yi's experiences, Ye Cheng and the others became even more excited, as if they were there themselves, as if they were Xiao Yi and they were the ones pretending to be cool.

"By the way, what about the Landau-Siegel zero-point conjecture?" Ye Cheng asked again: "I saw a chat in the group before, saying that Professor Zhang Yitang gave a report at the School of Mathematics last week. Brother Xiao, why didn't you go?"

"Oh, it was Chinese New Year at that time, so I was too lazy to go."

Xiao Yi waved his hand.

He also learned about Zhang Yitang's report. He heard that the final evaluation was very good and received praise from quite a number of participating scholars.

In the past two days, Zhang Yitang also called him specifically and said that he was ready to return to the United States. He had several major reports to give there at the three top mathematics schools: Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT.

Zhang Yitang also said on the phone: "When the time comes, they may ask some questions about the circle expansion method. If they stump me, I may need your help."

In response, Xiao Yi just smiled and said, "Of course no problem, but I don't think there is any problem that can stump you."

Zhang Yitang laughed: "There are so many questions like this. After all, I am not omniscient in mathematics. I don't know as much as you do."

"..."

Judging from the time now, Zhang Yitang is probably already on the plane. I hope that when he goes there to give his report, he won’t encounter any questions that he can’t answer.

Otherwise, according to the time difference, who knows what time it is on my side when he makes the report.

Seeing Xiao Yi's indifferent look, Ye Cheng and the others couldn't help but feel pity for him.

"This is such a great opportunity to show off, but you just gave up, Brother Xiao."

Xiao Yi rolled his eyes.

"This is called academic exchange, how can it be called pretense? What a vulgar word!"

Then he changed the subject and said, "Besides, it's not like I haven't issued a report before."

"It's just a zero-point guess~"

He shook his hands, his face showing no concern.

Ye Cheng and the other two fell silent.

Damn it, they’ve been tricked again. Why do they have nothing to do but look for trouble?

"Brother Xiao, you must treat us to dinner today!"

"You promised us a big dinner when you came back."

Xiao Yi was stunned for a moment, remembering what happened before, and then he waved his hand: "Okay, okay, let's go now, you can eat whatever you want today!"

"Great!"

Ye Cheng and the other two immediately jumped up excitedly and started to prepare.
Looking at their expressions, Xiao Yi shook his head. They were so ignorant that they even called him godfather.

However, at this moment, his cell phone rang again.

At first glance, it was Luo Mingchuan calling.

As soon as the call was connected, Luo Mingchuan's extremely excited voice came from the other end: "Boss Xiao, good news! The number of users on Yishui Bit has exceeded 50! And I estimate that it will continue to rise in the next period of time. I don't know if you have paid attention to the forums in the cryptocurrency circle. Now to percent of the discussions are about Yishui Bit!"

After hearing what the other party said, Xiao Yi was immediately more fortunate that he had asked the other party to take charge of the next matters in advance. With 50 users, God knows how troublesome it would be if he were to handle it.

It's just 40% of the shares.

"That's good. Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Luo."

"It's not hard, it's not hard at all. After all, it's what we do in this industry." Luo Mingchuan laughed, "Then I won't bother you, Mr. Xiao. If there is any good news next, I will tell you."

"it is good!"

After hanging up the phone, Xiao Yi heard Ye Cheng ask, "Brother Xiao, who is Mr. Luo?"

"Oh, nothing, just one person, and I started a small company with him." Xiao Yi waved his hand: "Are you guys ready?"

small company?
When Ye Cheng and the others heard this, their eyes widened.

"Brother Xiao, you have become a small boss?"

"Now I'm going to give you a good beating."

"Let's go!"

With that, they all left the dormitory.

……

On the other side, Jinling, Luoming Data Center.

Luo Mingchuan hung up the phone and walked into the computer room next door with a happy look on his face.

Just by providing some data services, you can get 40% of the shares. It’s really a big profit!
Thinking of this, the smile on his face became brighter. As for the current computer room, it is the server he prepared specifically for Yishui Bit. All the data is stored here. As for computing power, as a mining software, it basically does not require much computing power. After all, all of it is distributed on those mining machines. They only need to be responsible for storing various data generated during the mining process.

As soon as he entered the computer room, a staff member came up to him and said, "Boss Luo, the capacity of this computer room is running out."

Luo Mingchuan's eyes widened: "What? That's not enough?"

The staff member nodded and said, "Yes, the number of users has suddenly increased by more than 100,000 just now. I guess another mining farm has gone all-in."

"Fuck you." Luo Mingchuan immediately shouted, "Quick, quick, open the backup computer room, in case there's another wave..."

Before he could finish his words, another employee exclaimed, "It's full! The server is full!"

"Ah?" Luo Mingchuan's eyes suddenly widened. It's full already?

"According to the IP address, this batch of newly connected mining machines came from Sichuan Province! It should be the address of Bitmain!"

Bitmain...

Luo Mingchuan’s eyes went dark.

This is the largest Bitcoin mining farm in the country... no, it should be the world's largest Bitcoin mining farm. Even the famous Antminer in the cryptocurrency world is developed and sold by Bitmain.

What Luo Mingchuan is beginning to worry about now is whether his data center, which is only worth a few hundred million yuan, can really afford to supply data of this scale?

If the current pace continues, wouldn't it be equivalent to exchanging this data center worth hundreds of millions of dollars for this 40% stake?

He suddenly felt that he was at a disadvantage.

However, in the end he still shook his head helplessly. What was he thinking? If he really needed to invest the entire data center in it, the final profit would definitely be terrifying.

Therefore, he doesn't need to worry about this matter at all.

Suddenly, another employee came running over and shouted, "Boss Luo, people from Bitmain called us to ask what's going on here. They can't log in to Yishui Bit."

Someone else shouted, "Boss Luo, there are overseas IP addresses trying to log into Yishui Bit. Now even people abroad know about it. What should we do?"

Luo Mingchuan finally came back to his senses, and immediately shouted: "Now, everyone go to the backup computer room, turn on those servers, and prepare to connect more servers. Maybe even the backup computer room will soon be insufficient."

“As for overseas IPs…”

Luo Mingchuan had a headache again. Was he going to build a data center abroad?
……

This day is a memorable day for people in the cryptocurrency circle.

Various related forums have become abuzz with discussion.

The discussion about Yishui Bit has spread among almost everyone.

【Bitmain has officially announced that they will put half of their original Bitcoin mining machines into Yishui Bit. According to its internal staff, their mining algorithm is at least 60% less efficient than Yishui Bit.】

【I also heard that Bitmain has started to change algorithms on a large scale. 】

[It is said that Yishui Bit’s server crashed, and Bitmain even called to ask what happened.]

[It’s so funny, luckily I went all in early, all in is a kind of wisdom. 】

[It’s incredible. How powerful is Yishui Bit’s algorithm? It has directly changed our entire industry. ]

[Do you think Xiao Yi is joking with you? Once a genius makes a move, you will know whether he is good or not.]

[I heard that some industry insiders analyzed that Xiao Yi's algorithm must have used a mathematical method called parity check classification sieve in mathematics. This method seems to have been invented by Xiao Yi. He also used this method to prove the twin prime conjecture in mathematics, which was the big news in January and was even on the hot search at the time.]

[It’s just an algorithm, how great can it be? I won’t say anymore, I have to go to Yishui Bitcoin to mine]

【I'm coming too】

[Can you believe it? Someone used Yishuibit to mine solo. He only had three mining machines. After two days of mining, he actually mined a block, 6.25 bitcoins! ]

【what? 】

My passionate horse

[Stop talking, I'm going to go solo now. This overwhelming wealth will eventually be my turn, right? ]

[I heard that the news has been known abroad, and they are probably trying to connect to Yishui Bit. I just don’t know if they also need to use a VPN to log in to our domestic software. ]

……

As time went by, Yishui Bit's fame gradually spread from China to abroad, and gradually created a stir around the world.

There are various people who have developed their own mining algorithms and began to try to come up with the same algorithm from the perspective of classification screening. However, no matter how hard they think, they cannot come up with an algorithm that can match it.

Perhaps, they could not imagine that Xiao Yi's algorithm was not just classification and screening, but also included the circle method.

If they could understand Xiao Yi and Zhang Yitang's paper "The Non-Existence of Landau-Siegel Zeros", they might be able to learn something from it, but obviously, this is basically difficult.

However, for Xiao Yi, no matter how popular Yi Shuibit is, it has nothing to do with him.

After handing the matter over to Luo Mingchuan, all he had to do next was wait for the money to come in.

He, on the other hand, devoted all his energy to the research of computational materials science.

Whether it is doping simulation, molecular dynamics simulation or mechanical simulation, the computational model needs to be rebuilt.
However, for Xiao Yi, these things were not that difficult to complete.

In this way, half a month passed.

(End of this chapter)