I will not discuss the terrible state of those two delivery companies; everyone in the United States knows how terrible they are. I also tried to communicate with Goldman Sachs, hoping they would reform these two delivery companies, but it was still ineffective. Later, I simply proposed that Wanbaoge build its own delivery company, similar to Eastern Amazon. If we had acted immediately at that time, we could still have suppressed Eastern Amazon.
But those bastards at Goldman Sachs interfered again. I had previously asked them for help in reforming FedEx and United Express, and they pretended to be deaf and dumb, taking no action. However, when I was about to build my own logistics system, they jumped out and directly vetoed my proposal in the board meeting.
I was so angry that I questioned why they wouldn't allow us to build our own logistics network. Guess what they said? They said that the competition in the logistics industry is very fierce now, and Eastern Express has already encroached on half of the market share of FedEx and United Express. If I were to establish a company to compete at this time, wouldn't that take away business from the other two delivery companies?
FedEx, United, and Wanbaoge are all companies under Goldman Sachs. We shouldn't engage in vicious competition with each other; we should support each other. Therefore, Wanbaoge is not allowed to build a logistics network, and we are forced to use the express services of United and FedEx.
At that time, I was so angry that I asked them, what if Eastern Express takes away all the business from United and FedEx?
Then he told me that FedEx and United Express have the support of a large amount of government business and would never go bankrupt, so I shouldn't worry needlessly. Bezos's face was a bit numb as he spoke.
From that moment on, I knew that Wanbaoge would never win. But I had invested almost all my wealth in Wanbaoge, and I couldn't leave. In the end, I could only watch as the company's accounts and merchants one by one left Wanbaoge and moved to Eastern Amazon, and then Wanbaoge announced the suspension of services, as you see now. My life for the past few years has become a complete joke! Bezos's tone was full of sighs. If he hadn't experienced it personally, who could believe that his life would be so tragic and ridiculous, and that Goldman Sachs would be so absurd?
In our America First Group, you will not have any incompetent teammates! Madame Versailles concluded, Because you will be the president of the America First Group in the future, and no one except me will interfere with your operations. And you know me, I have no great interest in operating businesses; I will only give you the general direction, and how you do it is entirely up to you!
Yes, I understand! These words were like heavenly music to Bezos's ears. Could there really be such a good boss in the world?
Since the boss was so straightforward, Bezos decided not to be petty either. He also very readily expressed his attitude, agreeing to accept this new job, which earned him Madame Versailles's praise.
The two parties quickly reached a consensus on cooperation.
Alright, I'm about to head to that event. The company's human resources department will handle all subsequent work with you. I hope to see you in your office the next time we meet! Madame Versailles said with a smile.
I hope so! Bezos nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, Madam, will my future work involve consolidating existing business or helping the company explore new markets?
This question is quite important for Bezos because if his future work only involves maintaining and consolidating the existing market, Bezos feels he probably won't be able to do it for long, as he will quickly become bored by the lack of challenges.
It will involve both maintaining existing markets and exploring new ones! Madame Versailles said with a smile, seeing through Bezos's thoughts.
That's good. I wonder what specific areas of business? Bezos asked with some excitement, eager to prove his capabilities in this new market.
Do you know about BtB? Madame Versailles asked back, and Bezos naturally shook his head in confusion. However, Madam didn't say anything more but simply left, leaving Bezos alone and confused in the underground parking lot.
When Bezos returned home, he was surprised to find all his family members waiting for him. Each of them looked at Bezos with comforting eyes, as if wanting to console their deeply hurt relative.
Bezos was also very touched. He hugged each of his family members and then smiled, saying that he had found a new job and would start working again tomorrow.
This made his family members, who had prepared all sorts of comforting words, suddenly unsure of what to say. He had just lost his company, and then he found a new job so quickly.
Just as his family members were about to ask about Bezos's new job, Bezos instead asked them what this BtB thing was. Of course, everyone was confused and had no idea what Bezos was talking about.
Naturally, Bezos didn't expect any of his family members to understand BtB. After all, if he himself didn't know, there was little hope for these useless members of his household.
Fortunately, there is something called the internet in this world. What happened next shocked Bezos even more, because he couldn't find any information about BtB on the internet.
Could this be a super secret that the FBI has suppressed! Bezos was a little excited, so he started asking some of his friends. Finally, through a friend who managed a tech forum, he finally got information about BtB.
It turned out that BtB was not suppressed because it was too secret. On the contrary, it was because BtB was still a niche item, not getting any attention on the internet. Information related to it only existed on extremely professional technical forums, and these technical forums often had functions to block crawler software from accessing their website data, so even using search engines like Google, one couldn't find information about BtB.
It was also thanks to Bezos's friend, who had recently discussed BtB with someone and learned a little about it, that he provided Bezos with the relevant information.
With his friend's guidance, Bezos finally found all the information about BtB on a professional computer technology forum, the p2pfoundation website.
That's right, all the information, because the entire content of BtB was contained within two posts.
The first post was from a member whose username was a string of garbled characters, who proposed a brand new idea on the forum. That is, by using specific algorithms and solving methods, one could obtain data units.
Because these data units were unique, with the packaging of the internet and decentralized storage technology, they possessed the basis to become electronic currency.
Compared to legal tender, BtB has no centralized issuer; instead, it is generated by the computation of network nodes. Anyone can participate in creating Bitcoin, and it can be circulated worldwide. It can be bought and sold on any computer connected to the internet. Regardless of location, anyone can mine, buy, sell, or receive Bitcoin, and outsiders cannot identify user information during transactions.
According to this author, BtB would be the perfect currency in the network world, possessing various advantages over traditional sovereign currencies, being extremely suitable for payment in network scenarios, and potentially becoming one of the super-currencies that could be used globally in the future.
This post was met with enthusiastic discussion as soon as it was published. Because the financial characteristics of this post were much stronger than its technical characteristics, many technicians indicated that they did not understand the latter half of the post.
Of course, some members who had a slight understanding of finance enthusiastically posted their comments. These comments were extremely polarized. Proponents praised this currency to the heavens, calling it the most perfect network currency in the world.
Compared to this currency, network payment methods like Western Mustang Wallet, which still rely on US dollars to exist, were utter garbage.
Opponents, however, fiercely mocked the entire plan, saying that BtB, this damned thing without any actual assets as collateral and no endorsement from any credit institution, would only be a real miracle if it could truly circulate as currency.
But regardless of how fierce the debate was, it at least represented that a group of people were very interested in BtB, so the second post appeared.
About a month and a half later, on January 5, 2009, someone manufactured this theoretical currency... It wasn't actually that difficult; one only needed to design an automatic calculation tool and a distributed database tool to start manufacturing BtB.
On the first day of manufacturing, this programming member created 200,000 BtBs. More members mocked him below, saying, "Alright, you're a millionaire now, figure out how to spend these BtBs!"
When Bezos read this post, according to some members' comments, over 4 million BtBs had already been mined in the entire database.
However, these people also stated that BtB became very difficult to calculate afterward. Previously, it could calculate thousands of results in a minute, but now, it took an hour to calculate one result, making many people lose interest in mining. The fun was dead.