12 years ago, Japanese-American Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin. It is said that Satoshi Nakamoto himself hasn't appeared yet, but the bitcoin he created is crazy. This year, the value of Bitcoin hit record highs, first at $30,000, then at $40,000. By February 22, 20021year, the value of a single bitcoin reached a record high, reaching $58,000 each.
At this time, the total market value of Bitcoin exceeded $65,438 +0 trillion. What is this concept? The total value of Bitcoin has surpassed many famous companies in the world, ranking sixth in the world, while Tencent, which has the largest market value in China, can only be ranked second.
After February 26th, Bitcoin fell again, reaching a maximum of $44,000. Despite this, there are still many investors willing to participate, and more newcomers have joined the "mining" business. Optimists believe that the ups and downs of Bitcoin in history are too normal, but the overall value is still rising.
Bitcoin has gone up and down many times and even went bankrupt in the history of more than ten years. Some optimistic investors think that the current decline of Bitcoin is not serious, because such a decline has happened many times in history. For example, at 20 1000, the highest price soared to 1000 dollars, then fell to 150 dollars in the blink of an eye, rose to 20,000 dollars at the end of 20 17, and fell by 50% a month later.
Such a decline seems unable to prevent more investors from entering the market. In 20 14, the opening price of China bitcoin was more than 3,000 yuan, but in March, the price of 10 bitcoin exceeded 350,000 yuan, and the price of a single bitcoin soared. This attraction is huge enough that more people join the army of "digging coins".
Since the price of a bitcoin is more than 350,000 yuan, how long does it take for ordinary people to "mine" to dig one relative to the price of one kilogram of gold?
The answer may disappoint you.
Bitcoin is a product born on the Internet. As long as the home is connected to the internet, the ordinary computer at home can also "mine", and as long as it persists, it can "harvest". However, the data shows that such "harvest" is really too little, and it takes 1.8 million years to dig a bitcoin.
According to the data, if you use an ordinary home computer to "mine" and work 24 hours a day, you can only dig up at most 0.000000 15 bitcoins that day. This efficiency is really worrying, because it means that it takes 6.5438+0.8 million years to dig a bitcoin with a home computer.
In fact, before the value of Bitcoin soared and more people didn't realize this virtual product, some miners used ordinary computers. At that time, the difficulty of "mining" was hundreds of times simpler than it is now, so mining with home computers at that time was much more profitable than it is now.
However, with the skyrocketing price of bitcoin, the price of a bitcoin is even the income of many people who have worked for decades, and more and more bitcoins have been excavated, the number of bitcoins to be excavated has decreased, and the difficulty of "mining" has risen sharply. Many investors began to use more efficient and professional "mining machines".
"Mining" is crazy in some places. It is reported that Internet cafes in some places in Vietnam have all been closed for professional "mining". In addition to professional equipment, there is another place where "mining" needs to consume a lot of money, and that is electricity. According to the data, the power consumption of Bitcoin is equivalent to the sum of four European countries: Denmark, Greece, Iceland and Hungary, which is expensive.
Is it guaranteed to make money by investing so much money in the mine? The answer may disappoint everyone again. Bitcoin's "making wealth" is based on rising prices. Once the price of bitcoin falls, it is no longer so valuable, then investors may lose everything.
Some experts have warned that the bitcoin market is the easiest to be manipulated because bitcoin is mainly concentrated in the hands of some people. A virtual currency is so expensive that it cannot be separated from the hype of these people. At the same time, there is no sound and mature bitcoin market supervision mechanism in the world, so investing in bitcoin is very risky.
Therefore, for ordinary people, it is better to stay away from bitcoin and "mining", don't you think?