After being in contact with the blockchain industry for 5 years, Apple co-founder Woz formally started a blockchain entrepreneurship, which allowed the outside world to see more possibilities for blockchain technology to land in real-life scenarios. With his identity as the blockchain The industry brings more attention and recognition, which is difficult for the popular DeFi and Bitcoin.
Author| Tao Hu
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Incoming blockchain
After more and more traditional business giants enter the blockchain field, many business figures have also devoted themselves to blockchain entrepreneurship, such as Steve Wozniak (hereinafter referred to as Wozniak).
Woz is the co-founder of the global technology giant Apple. In 1976, he co-founded the world's most valuable company with Jobs and Rowe Wayne. At that time, Wozniak and Jobs jointly created the first-generation Apple computer and the second-generation Apple computer. After the second-generation Apple computer became popular, it became the best-selling personal computer in the 1970s and early 1980s, and the monthly sales exceeded in 1979. With 10,000 units, he is known as the engineer who brought computers into the masses' homes. In 1985, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Reagan.
Apple's success made Woz a huge fortune quickly, but he seems to have realized the characteristics of "emphasizing righteousness over profit" very early. Out of recognition of the company’s colleagues, Woz launched a "Woz Project" within the company, selling nearly one-third of 80,000 shares under his name to company employees at a low price of $5 per share. And give each of the early entrepreneurs veterans worth millions of dollars in stocks.
But for various reasons, Woz left Apple and re-created a new business in the field of science and technology. First he founded the CL 9 company specializing in the design of universal remote controls, and then in 2001 he co-founded a company engaged in wireless global positioning system technology. The "Wheel of Zeus" company developed by China, these two directions belonged to quite cutting-edge technology at the time, and Woz also achieved good results in them.
In addition to technical work, Woz also has a very rich personal life, such as publishing many books, guest actors, and even teaching computer classes in an elementary school for ten years. He is a real winner in life.
Since 2015, Woz began to contact the blockchain field, which laid the foundation for his future career. According to media reports, Woz joined Planet Capital, a digital currency ATM operator, as a company consultant and director. The company hopes to use blockchain and other technologies to become a breakthrough in the payment industry. It can be used as both a legal currency ATM machine and a digital currency. Currency ATM machine.
Since the digital currency industry was still very early and the payment space was very limited, this company did not really develop, but Woz took this opportunity to start his exploration of the blockchain industry, and the price of Bitcoin was 800 US dollars. Bought Bitcoin at the time. " Humans created currencies and controlled them, issuing new coins (US dollars) every year. In contrast, Bitcoin is not subject to this restriction and government manipulation. Only Bitcoin is pure digital gold. " Woz said.
Woz believes that blockchain is the next major IT revolution that is about to take place, but he still shows a sober posture about the current state of the crazy hype of blockchain. In June 18th, Woz said at the NEX Technology Conference in New York that the hype surrounding the blockchain is very similar to the situation during the dot-com bubble at the beginning of this century, when a large part of the companies that promised to use the Internet to change lives quickly went bankrupt.
Nevertheless, Woz was completely involved in blockchain entrepreneurship a year later, that is, the recently popular Efforce company, which is actually reasonable. In July 19, Woz announced that he was the co-founder of Efforce at the Delta Summit held in Malta, but no further news was released for the following year. Until recently, as the news of its token issuance came to light, the details of Efforce The vision was made public.
Group photo of Efforce team attending the Delta Summit in Malta
According to official information, Efforce hopes to be the first to open everyone to participate in global energy-saving projects and enable investors to profit from it. At present, the global market for energy efficiency projects has reached 250 billion US dollars, but investors usually require energy service providers (ESCOs) to invest more than 200,000 US dollars in large amounts of capital before they are willing to implement energy-saving plans. In addition, the expected return of these capital investments is difficult to measure and requires a high technical knowledge threshold, so it is not easy to obtain financing opportunities from traditional banks.
Efforce has spotted this demand and provided ESCO with a simplified financing process. Its own professional team will evaluate the expected benefits of the energy-saving plan. After passing it, the Efforce blockchain platform will be launched for public reference. Users can use WOXZ tokens on the platform to contribute to the project. Funding. After the energy saving plan is implemented, the Efforce platform will use smart measurement tools connected to its blockchain to record the actual energy savings of the plan. These data will be allocated to investor accounts to supplement their energy balance, which can be sold or used in the future.
"In the current difficult times, many small companies are struggling. They cannot afford to switch to LED lighting, simplify production processes, and even save heat through heat insulation. Even in the long run, all of this can help them Save money.” Jacopo Visetti, Efforce project leader and co-founder, said.
Compared with many blockchain projects' "attic in the sky"-style development plans, Efforce faces the field of energy-saving plan financing with obvious pain points, which is a potential high-quality case of combining blockchain technology with the real economy. Especially the blessing of Woz as the co-founder of Apple, this project has gained extra attention and trust.
Therefore, Efforce has quickly become a "top stream" project in the blockchain industry recently. Major foreign blockchain media such as Coindesk, The block, and many traditional media have conducted comprehensive reports. Under this circumstance, which exchange the Efforce project tokens will be launched on the first line is also particularly concerned by the market. After all, Efforce is equivalent to one of the very few projects with a large amount of traffic and out-of-circle effect, and it will inevitably become the exchange chasing. aims.
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Behind the accidental choice
However, the choice between Efforce and Woz was quite surprising to the outside world. It did not choose the traditionally old exchange to launch the first line, but chose a leading exchange HBTC (Hobbit Exchange) to first list its token WOZX. On December 3, HBTC officially opened WOZX token trading. It has so far risen by more than 30 times without a significant correction. It has become the token with the highest increase since December among the first- and second-tier exchanges. This means that Efforce has unexpected choices. For the inevitable reason, the promotion of this currency listing cooperation has achieved good results for both parties.
It is understood that HBTC Exchange is a business of Binhe Group. The group also has two major businesses: Binhe Cloud Technology Service and HBTC Chain (Hobbit Public Chain). It has become the world's leading blockchain financial information technology service provider. At this stage, blockchain financial technology has been provided to more than 300 well-known companies around the world.
In terms of exchange business, HBTC is the world’s first 100% asset reserve certification platform. It currently maintains a good level of security records, transaction performance, transaction depth, and business types, providing customers with coins, contracts, OTC, All-round services such as options and wealth management. At the same time, HBTC exchange's original HBC platform token model has also attracted a large number of users' recognition. Daily income data of the platform is released and HBC repurchase is carried out. Thousands of users have locked up 1000HBC to become Captain Hobbit.
At the same time, HBTC also has a good vision in the selection of high-quality projects. WOXZ is just the latest case. In addition, many high-quality projects such as NEST, Unfi, DF and so on are first launched on HBTC, and HBTC has become one of the first gathering places for high-quality projects. , Bring huge wealth effect to platform users.
Stimulated by the surge in WOXZ tokens, HBTC's recent trading volume has also risen sharply. According to statistics from Coinmarketcap on December 10, HBTC's 24-hour spot trading volume reached 51.3 billion yuan, ranking third, second only to Huobi and Binance.
In terms of cloud services, Binhe Cloud has become the world's largest crypto asset trading platform technical service provider, helping over 320+ customers to build cryptocurrency trading systems around the world, and can provide customers with various system services such as spot, contract, and option. The assets under custody currently exceed USD 6 billion, covering 15 million users worldwide.
In terms of public chains, HBTC Chain is the first decentralized public chain focusing on cross-chain custody. It has realized heterogeneous cross-chain and supports cross-chain custody of more than ten mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, LTC, and DOT. And transactions, and the protection of assets can be improved through private key sharding technology. At the same time, the Hobbit public chain has also developed a cross-chain DEX SaaS service, which provides decentralized OTC functions, supports NFT asset transactions, and can meet the secondary development needs of many participants through an open multi-layer API protocol.
"The next bull market must be driven by cross-chain applications." HBTC founder James Ju said that cross-chain not only allows the interconnection between chains, assets and assets, but also the traditional world to connect blockchains and use A more effective channel for blockchain.
According to the plan, the HBTC Chain mainnet is planned to be officially launched in December, focusing more on decentralized and secure asset circulation and exchange in the early stage, and will focus on the direction of digital asset derivatives in the future, providing users with one-stop decentralization The safe chain digital asset solution has become a new generation of DeFi ecological infrastructure.
Judging from the above results, it is entirely reasonable for Woz and Efforce to choose HBTC to issue their tokens for the first time. The exchange is good in terms of transaction depth, user base, compliance, and security. The performance is also in line with Efforce's cutting-edge temperament, which brings more effects to the cold start of the project.
On the whole, as the result of HBTC exchange's deep cultivation and continuous efforts in the industry over the past years, the rise of WOXZ tokens has also brought HBTC exchange into the eyes of users inside and outside the blockchain industry on a large scale. HBTC will also have the opportunity to take advantage of this cooperation Raise its position in the industry to another level.
However, the more important significance of this incident is that Woz's official entry has allowed the outside world to see the specific possibility of blockchain technology landing in real-world scenarios, and with his identity to bring more attention and recognition to the blockchain industry , This is difficult for the popular DeFi and Bitcoin.
Therefore, the next specific development of Efforce will be particularly worthy of attention. As a case of combining blockchain technology and encrypted assets to solve real social pain points, its development is bound to inspire more blockchain technology applications. , To promote the common progress of the industry.
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