In the blink of an eye, a quarter of 2018 has passed. To say what is the most popular during this period, it is undoubtedly the blockchain.
Xu Xiaoping said "no rumors", which brought blockchainism to us, Yuhong promoted the "3 o'clock community", and brought anxiety about the blockchain of the whole people. Entrepreneurs get together on the tuyere, dance on the tip of the knife, and after the capital enters the runway, everyone is running faster.
As ordinary people, how do we get a blockchain admission ticket?
Current status of blockchain technology
At present, there are many domestic blockchain entrepreneurial projects, but there are also many three-no projects, no application scenarios, no technical teams, and no business logic. Many experts have called for the blockchain industry to "get out of the virtual and become real", and the market is generally It is hoped that this popular technology can be gradually applied.
At the just-concluded Boao Forum for Asia, Sheng Songcheng, Counselor of the People's Bank of China and Executive Vice President of the China-Europe Lujiazui Institute of International Finance, said, "If the blockchain and virtual currency are combined, the blockchain will mainly focus on virtual currency. Blockchain will not have a future. The future of blockchain is to serve the real economy.”
Similarly, Guo Feng, a partner of Lighting Capital, also said to the media, "2018 will be the year when the blockchain is truly integrated with the real economy and explodes. On the one hand, traditional enterprises embrace the blockchain, with a single centralized management + decentralized collaboration. Blockchain applications will spring up like mushrooms after a rain; on the other hand, the chain circle and the currency circle start-up teams will begin to integrate, traditional blockchain application projects will gradually absorb the token/token mechanism, and token projects will gradually integrate with the real economy and move towards the general public. ."
Of course, we have seen some projects related to food traceability at this stage, but it still feels too far away from ordinary consumers. The main thresholds for ordinary people to join the blockchain are as follows:
First, understand. The emergence of blockchain solves a big problem left by the network - trust, immutability, traceability and other characteristics, which is equivalent to tying a safety rope to the current anonymous social network. Any failure to keep promises will have to bear great costs. In this case, playing by the rules is obviously the most cost-effective option. Coupled with decentralization, it is literally killing the giants.
Second, think. The blockchain is naturally good, but the goodness of the blockchain is different from the goodness of a specific project in the blockchain . From a global perspective, the success rate of entrepreneurship is less than 1%, and the blockchain is no exception, and it may even be more tragic. Because in the world of blockchain, it is likely that the winner takes all, only the first and not the second.
Finally, to participate, that is, to join the blockchain industry. The best way to understand an industry is to be in it, but not everyone has the opportunity to directly participate in the research and development of the blockchain. Perhaps we can participate in the blockchain by participating in some simple and easy blockchain services. Target.
How to get into blockchain
The best way for ordinary consumers to enter the blockchain is "mining".
The so-called mining does not mean that everyone changes their tooling and picks up the pickaxe to actually mine. Blockchain "mining" refers to the process of conducting mathematical operations through the computing power of computers (or mobile phones). In this process, everyone can get A certain service fee, that is, the miner's income. Taking the popular Bitcoin as an example, the price of a Bitcoin mining machine is basically around 10,000 yuan, and the higher configuration is more than 100,000 yuan, which is too expensive for ordinary people.
On the other hand, there are also many products on the market that obtain mining revenue by contributing personal WIFI traffic, calling on the majority of netizens to share and reuse the idle bandwidth. The essence of this technology is a new "mining" mode that uses the sharing mode and CDN as the bottom layer, and is supported by the immutable and traceable features of the blockchain. To put it simply, it is to aggregate the scattered idle broadband of users into powerful cloud computing resources, and to deliver unlimited node resources to the enterprise, which greatly reduces the cost of CDN, and the enterprise pays the original cost of purchasing bandwidth to individual users in the form of points. in return.
Recently, Lenovo has launched such a product, named Lecoo "Dug Jinbao" smart router S1, which collects the current sharing capabilities of the entire network, and is equipped with decentralized, authentic and non-tamperable blockchain technology. According to the workload weight, the virtual digital certificate generated on the day is allocated to the new routing equipment of the whole network. The "Gold Mining Area" plan is proposed for the first time. Users can generate their own accounts in the digital vault, and there will be an address (card number), and the income generated by router mining can be referred to the account, thus forming a positive incentive channel.
In addition, Lecoo's "Dug Jinbao" smart router S1 itself is a mature smart router product, supports 2.4GHz/5GHz dual-band concurrent function, can be switched freely according to different network usage scenarios, and supports smart home mode , seamlessly connect smart products such as refrigerators, air conditioners, and TVs. The unique four-antenna distribution design allows the connected devices to continuously send out signals, making the transmission more stable and will not cause signal crosstalk.
Why cluster routers
According to the "Statistical Report on Internet Development in my country" released by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the proportion of Chinese netizens using mobile phones and TVs to access the Internet has increased compared with the end of 2016. As of June 2017, the proportion of Chinese netizens using mobile phones to access the Internet reached 96.3%, and the per capita weekly Internet access time was 26.5 hours. At the same time, the family has become the largest network demand environment in China after the work scene.
As a result, Internet companies such as Xiaomi, 360, and Thunder have launched their own router products. In addition to seeing the huge market, the meaning of the drunkard is that the router is the first entrance to the home Internet. Controlling the router is equivalent to controlling the smart home. Of course, control does not mean intrusion. Businesses can do a lot of useful and interesting experiences for users through the entrance of the router. Some functions that cannot be realized by other intelligent hardware can be realized by routers. More importantly, the router is the source of WIFI, and WIFI is the main carrier for connecting various smart devices.
Returning to the product itself, most of the current smart routers focus on the gain function of the product, and functions such as local storage, cloud storage, and remote download are their selling points. People in the industry know that the OpenWRT system used by most routers is highly open source and is a highly automated embedded Linux system with powerful network components and scalability. This means that even for Internet companies that are at the forefront of the times, the smart routers they manufacture may not be much different from ordinary routers. The router ecosystem launched by Lenovo this time, in addition to providing basic functions of network services, also supports cloud photo album storage and high-definition video source download. routers are more valuable.
Previously, the blockchain router jointly launched by Lenovo and newifi was sold out in a short period of time after the launch, and the strategic cooperation between the two parties has achieved remarkable results. As we all know, newifi new router 3 is the first router equipped with blockchain technology in the industry, and the maturity of its technology is of course unquestionable. Lenovo's Lecoo "Dug Jinbao" smart router S1 continues the "digital gold" model. , so that ordinary people can also get access to the dividends brought by the blockchain technology, they can mine, and they can also earn points by sharing resources such as idle bandwidth and storage space.
A month ago, Chang Cheng, vice president of Lenovo Group, presided over the release of the Lenovo S5 full-screen blockchain mobile phone, and this week released the Lecoo "Nugget Jinbao" smart router S1. In the future, it is not ruled out that Lenovo will use blockchain and intelligent IoT in the future. Deploy a larger ecology.