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Chapter 254 Global Broadcast Begins

For Qiao Yu, his live streaming marketing work ended after posting a Weibo post.

But for the Character Leap live broadcast team, marketing this global simultaneous live broadcast event has just begun.

Investing traffic on Weibo is just the most basic operation. Next, we will distribute tasks in different traffic pools.

However, Zihudong already controls one of the largest Internet traffic pools in China.

After the task was issued, naturally countless bloggers of all sizes began to help promote it.

In fact, after reaching a preliminary cooperation intention with Zheng Xiwen, ZiFuLeap had already carried out a wave of publicity.

This is also the reason why Yanbei University's official website is so lively today. In an era where traffic is king, the driving forces behind it are everywhere.

So strictly speaking, this is already the second wave today.

While others were busy, Qiao Yu was not idle either. He was doing the final check before the test officially started with Chenlong Chaoyun and the engineers and researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology.

It is mainly some pre-deployment work, including software operating environment, network security, system disaster recovery and recovery plan, etc.

After all, global live broadcast is not only to suppress Microsoft's arrogance, but also to put itself on the fire.

It would be quite embarrassing if some messy problems occurred during the live broadcast and they were in a mess, and had to admit that their own quantum simulation computing technology could not cause any problems to the cryptocurrency trading system.

After all, the other side had already proved the existence of quantum supremacy through Shor's algorithm more than ten years ago. We can't let those high-tech companies on the other side make a fool of themselves.

The most important thing is not to make Microsoft look like a laughing stock.

It turned out that the engineers who stayed up all night were still very serious, and it could even be said that everyone was very excited.

The manifestation is that the preparation work was very thorough, at least Qiao Yu couldn't find any fault with it.

Soon, the time finally came to ten o'clock. The live broadcast officially began.

The cameramen in Qiao Yu's office were also fully prepared, including the live broadcast software installed on Qiao Yu's computer, which was temporarily used to direct the test operation.

Although you may not understand the images of those professional software on the computer, but without them, this live broadcast will not look so professional.

Of course, this kind of live broadcast is not a formal TV program, and Qiao Yu is not a serious guest, so there is no need to be so professional.

So when the live broadcast officially started, Qiao Yu finally remembered to ask: "By the way, this is a global live broadcast. Should I speak Chinese or English?"

"It doesn't matter. No matter which language you use, we have simultaneous translation and a dedicated subtitle team."

"major!"

Qiao Yu gave a thumbs up and then said, "Hello, everyone, I will use Chinese to explain this test most of the time, but I may use English for some parts.

But please note that I use English not because Chinese cannot explain the professional terms I want to express clearly, but simply because we need to take care of the employers who invited us to do the quantum era transaction security test. After all, they paid for it.

Therefore, using English to explain some technical details can help them understand more accurately how big the gap is between them and us before we officially enter the quantum era. "

Afterwards, Qiao Yu calmly operated the computer twice in front of the camera.

In fact, unlike what many people imagine, Qiao Yu does not need to operate too many things. It is already the AI ​​era. The hardware may not have been automated yet, but the software has already been configured.

And of course there is a team of engineers in the background who monitor the operation of the software and are ready to deal with any unexpected situations that may occur at any time based on the code manual that was compiled overnight.

Therefore, it can also be understood that Qiao Yu’s most important job in this live broadcast is to perform on stage.

Fortunately, no one will have any objections.

Not to mention that Zheng Xiwen has already publicized that this job can get high overtime pay, which is enough to motivate everyone.

The fact that almost all the theory and technical details of this operation were provided by Qiao Yu was enough to make all the engineers involved in the operation willing to serve as supporting roles.

Most engineers who are engaged in computer research in recent years are holding their breath.

I don’t want to say anything like that. The main reason is that the other party suddenly started a technology war, and suddenly this product can’t be bought today. And that product can’t be used tomorrow…

God knows how much overtime they have to work just for these trivial matters. The most annoying thing is that in most cases, they still work overtime for free.

Of course, you can’t blame the other party for working overtime for free. But just thinking about how much overtime you have to work that you don’t need to work is enough to make you hate them.

This is a day of pride in every aspect. Even if it can make the workers on the other side work more overtime, it will be good.

Although revenge is not advisable, it is better to lose both sides than to lose alone. So I feel relieved that I didn't get paid for the overtime today. If I got paid, I would feel even happier.

……

“What you see now is that we are analyzing the transactions on the three major cryptocurrency exchange platforms in the United States through formal channels. The first thing we need to do is to collect information and analyze the security architecture of the exchange…

Of course, there is more to it than what you have seen now. In fact, before conducting this test, our engineering team has done a lot of preliminary work.

For example, we have obtained and analyzed the public security reports, white papers and protocols of the three major exchanges, and learned about the encryption algorithms, key management strategies, authentication mechanisms and other information they use.

After obtaining this information, we will analyze it through the software we have set up, and intelligently formulate the means of quantum attack simulation, such as simulating the generation, storage and use of secret keys, etc.

I need to emphasize here that although the three major exchanges invited our team to conduct the test, all transactions on the exchanges were the same as usual, and no interfaces were opened for us..."

……

It has to be said that the early publicity measures of Character Jump were very successful. Or perhaps today's test was already topical enough, and the live broadcast effect was very good.

As soon as the live broadcast just started, the number of people in the official Doule live broadcast room in China alone instantly exceeded 100,000, and was approaching 200,000.

You know, today is not a holiday. It is a scary number that so many people can come in at 10 o'clock in the morning.

Moreover, although Fuziyuedong signed an exclusive live broadcast contract with Qiao Yu today, it authorized many of its own bloggers to broadcast this live broadcast simultaneously, and in this way, the traffic was diverted.
If the number of people in all live broadcast rooms is added together, it would be a very terrifying number. This has broken the record of the number of people online in domestic live broadcast rooms, and it broke the record directly within ten minutes of the broadcast.

The only pity is that it is impossible for Qiao Yu to promote the products.

However, it can also be seen from the background data that many people actually quit shortly after entering.

The reason can probably be seen from the scrolling comments section. Many people thought they could see the legendary hacker attack scene.

Obviously, those difficult to understand software interfaces are disappointing. But more people stay.

There are so many people in Huaxia who are interested in cryptocurrency. Not to mention that Qiao Yu’s recent popularity has not completely dissipated.

However, the live broadcast room on the DouLe international version is more popular. The traffic is much larger than that of the domestic live broadcast room, and the retention rate is also higher.

It’s not just because there are more people in foreign markets. It’s probably also because cryptocurrencies are legal investments in many countries, especially Western countries, so they attract more attention.

And for those investors, it wasn’t just DouLe that was promoting this live broadcast. The simultaneous announcements by the three major exchanges also had a certain publicity effect.

Not to mention that there are more than just ordinary people watching Qiao Yu’s live broadcast at this time.

All foreign scientists and engineers who are doing quantum computing and related research, as well as executives of the cryptocurrency trading market and technology companies involved in this research, are now watching Qiao Yu's live broadcast.

Unsurprisingly, they would only choose the international version of DouLe’s live broadcast room, because Qiao Yu is currently broadcasting live in Chinese, and the domestic version of the live broadcast room would not be considerate enough to put English subtitles.

This naturally includes John Martinis, chief scientist at Google Research.

To be honest, if we were to say who is most dissatisfied with Microsoft abroad, John Martinis would definitely be one of them.

It would be fine if they were competitors, but the key point was that he had almost finished talking with Qiao Yu. It could be said that they had reached a complete consensus.

At least from a scientist's perspective, John Martinis really didn't think Qiao Yu's request was excessive. In fact, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Qiao Yu was kind.

They are even willing to use the salary and benefits of a senior consultant to help them train a group of theoretical talents. This can really be described as selfless.

John Martinis firmly believes that with this group of theoretical talents, it will only take a few years for them to carve out their own path in the field of quantum simulation computing.

As a result, Microsoft not only jumped out to stir up trouble, but also tried to form alliances.

The most infuriating thing is that after Microsoft jumped out, the Google executives who had originally planned to sign a contract with Qiao Yu decided not to sign the contract for the time being and wait and see what happens.

He even went to inquire about this and learned that it was not entirely the decision of the company's top management. It was mainly the greedy directors on the board who began to put pressure on him.

Among them was the founder of Google. But John Martinis believed that these boards must have been lobbied by someone.

For ordinary people, it may be difficult to distinguish the messy relationships among them. But in John Martinis's position, he is very clear that the company is the company and the capital is the capital.

Especially the relationships between these high-tech companies in the United States are extremely complicated, with competition and cooperation coexisting at the same time.

The equity relationship behind it is even more complicated. From the perspective of capital, capital operation is often not just for profit, but also involves strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, capital exit and other operations.

It is not uncommon for shareholders to use their capital advantages or other levels of influence to interfere with major company decisions at certain critical moments.

To be honest, John Martinis does not like this highly complex business ecosystem. After all, in order to increase the value of capital, capital often does not care whether a company it holds shares in can dominate the market.

If dismembering or even destroying Google can bring them greater profits, John Martinis believes that the capital behind it will take action without hesitation.

Just like this time.

Obviously Google should have signed a contract with Qiao Yu first.

If Microsoft thinks it is strong, then let them fight alone. But in the end, they chose to join forces.

It is rare to see such unity among these high-tech companies.

Microsoft has been trying to seize Google's search engine market for a long time. However, the products Microsoft launched before and after did not pose a threat to Google, such as Bing...

So John Martinis hopes even more than anyone else that Qiao Yu will teach Microsoft a lesson this time.

As for whether the cryptocurrency market will crash as a result?
He doesn't care about these. Anyway, he doesn't speculate on things that obviously test his IQ.

No matter how high the stock price is pushed, at least there is something tangible to back it up. Whether it is the headquarters building or those intangible intellectual property rights, they are all tangible things that can be exchanged for money.

But what supports cryptocurrency?
This is a wealth built in the air. It is almost worthless except for wasting a lot of computing power and electricity resources during mining. The only thing that is valuable is the blockchain system.

Once the encryption system used by them can be cracked, the value of hundreds of various virtual currencies will drop to zero.

Even though the original intentions and technology of Bitcoin's developers were good, once capital got involved, the entire cryptocurrency market has become a game for capital harvesting.

So he hoped that Qiao Yu could fight a good battle this time, not only to make Microsoft feel that the loss outweighed the gain, but most importantly, to teach the capital that supported Microsoft behind the scenes a small lesson.

Don't always underestimate the latest theories and technologies. It's better to let them know that this world is not a place where you can do whatever you want just by having money.

However, John Martinis really didn't expect Qiao Yu's team to be able to hack so quickly. In just ten minutes, his team had already broken through the multi-authentication systems of the three major exchanges and obtained access to the internal private keys...

Wait, how did they suddenly control a wallet called “MasterWallet” inside Kraken…

A layman may not understand what is happening in the software.

But John Martinis was sure that everything shown there indicated that the platform security of the three major exchanges was being ruthlessly destroyed.

Wait, it has begun, the transfer operation has begun...

In just the twelfth minute, they were even able to simulate a legal transaction request!

How the hell did they do this?!

(End of this chapter)