Capítulo 768: Chapter 252: Global Broadcast Begins_2

Of course, this is not all that everyone has seen now. In fact, before conducting this test, our engineering team has already 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 they use, key management strategies, authentication mechanisms, and other information.

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

I need to emphasize this point: although this test was invited by the three major exchanges for our team to conduct, all transactions within the exchange are as usual, and no interfaces were opened for us…”

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We have to say that the early promotional measures of Character Leap were very successful. Or perhaps today’s test itself was topical enough, and the live broadcast effect was excellent.

As soon as the broadcast started, just the number of viewers in the official DouLe live room in China instantly exceeded 100,000, directly approaching 200,000.

It is important to note that today is not a day of rest. For so many people to swarm in at ten in the morning is already a frightening number.

Moreover, although Character Leap signed an exclusive live broadcast contract with Qiao Yu today, it authorized many of its own bloggers to simultaneously re-broadcast this live stream as a way to spread the viewership.

If the numbers from all the live rooms were combined, it would be an extremely terrifying figure.

This has already broken the record for the number of online viewers in domestic live rooms, and it broke the record within the first ten minutes of the broadcast.

The only pity is that it is not possible to have Qiao Yu promote products.

However, we can tell from the back-end data that many people left shortly after entering.

The reason can probably be gleaned from those rolling comment sections. Quite a few people expected to see grand scenes of mythical hacker attacks.

Clearly, those software interfaces that are difficult to understand were very disappointing. But more people stayed.

In Huaxia, there are already so many people interested in cryptocurrency. Not to mention that Qiao Yu’s recent popularity has not completely dissipated.

However, even hotter is actually the international version of the DouLe software live room. The traffic is far greater than the domestic live rooms, and the retention rate is higher.

Not only because there are more people in foreign markets, but also because cryptocurrency is a legal investment project in many countries, especially Western countries, so the attention is greater.

And for investors, not only DouLe is promoting this live broadcast. The three major exchanges simultaneously issued announcements, which also had a certain promotional effect.

Not to mention that at this moment, those paying attention to Qiao Yu’s live broadcast are not just regular people.

All overseas scientists, engineers working on quantum computing and related research, as well as executives of tech companies involved in cryptocurrency trading markets and related research, are currently watching Qiao Yu’s live broadcast.

Unsurprisingly, they would choose to watch on the international version of DouLe, because Qiao Yu is currently streaming in Chinese, and the domestic version of the live room doesn’t thoughtfully provide English subtitles.

This naturally includes Google Research Institute’s Chief Scientist, John Martinis.

To be honest, if anyone overseas is most dissatisfied with Microsoft, John Martinis is definitely one of them.

It’s one thing that they’re competitors, but crucially, he’s already almost reached an agreement with Qiao Yu. It can be said that a consensus has been completely reached.

At least from a scientist’s perspective, John Martinis genuinely doesn’t feel that the requirements proposed by Qiao Yu are excessive. In fact, the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that Qiao Yu is being generous.

He’s even willing to take a senior consultant’s salary and benefits to help them cultivate a group of theoretical talents. This can truly be described as selfless.

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

Yet Microsoft not only jumped out to stir things up, but also engaged in the practice of forming alliances.

Most infuriatingly, after Microsoft jumped out, Google’s executives, who had originally planned to sign with Qiao Yu, decided not to sign for the time being and to watch the situation unfold.

He even specifically went to inquire and found that it wasn’t just a decision by the company executives. It was mainly due to pressure from those greedy directors on the board.

This includes one of Google’s founders. But John Martinis believes these board members were definitely lobbied.

To ordinary people, it might be hard to distinguish those messy relationships among them. But at John Martinis’ level, he knows very well that companies are companies, and capital is capital.

Especially in the United States, the relationships among high-tech companies are complex beyond words, with competition and cooperation coexisting.

The equity relationships behind them are even more intricate. From a capital standpoint, capital operations are often not just about making profits, but also involve strategic alliances, mergers, capital exits, and other maneuvers.

Shareholders often use their capital advantage or influence on other levels to intervene in major company decisions at critical times, which is not uncommon.

To be honest, John Martinis does not like this highly complex business ecosystem. After all, capital is often not concerned whether the company they hold shares in can dominate the market if it means profit maximization.

If disassembling or even destroying Google could bring them greater profits, John Martinis believes those behind the capital would not hesitate to act.

It’s like this time.

Obviously, Google should have been the first to sign a contract with Qiao Yu.

If Microsoft thinks they’re so capable, then let them confront alone. But instead, they chose to stick together.

It’s worth noting that such unity among these high-tech companies is rare.

Microsoft has long wanted to seize Google’s search engine market, not just for a day or two. It’s just that the products Microsoft has launched haven’t threatened Google, such as Bing…

So, John Martinis is even more eager than others to see Qiao Yu show Microsoft the ropes this time.

As for whether the cryptocurrency market will collapse as a result?

He doesn’t care about these things. Anyway, he doesn’t trade those obvious tests of intelligence.

Stocks are things whose prices may be pushed high, but at least there’s something tangible to underpin them. Whether it’s the headquarters buildings or intangible intellectual property, they are real things that can be converted to money.

But what supports cryptocurrency?

It’s wealth constructed on an airy castle, and aside from wasting considerable computational power and electricity resources during mining, it’s almost worthless from the outset. Its value exists solely in the blockchain system.

Once the encryption system it uses becomes vulnerable, the value of hundreds of virtual currencies will instantly become zero.

Even if the developers of Bitcoin had good intentions and technology back then, once capital got involved, the whole cryptocurrency market became a capital harvesting game.

So he hopes Qiao Yu can fight a beautiful battle this time, not just making Microsoft feel it wasn’t worth it, but most importantly, giving a small lesson to those capitals supporting Microsoft.

Don’t always underestimate the latest theories and technology, It’d be best to let them know that the world is indeed not merely a place where money can make things happen at will.

John Martinis didn’t expect that Qiao Yu’s team would be so fast in their invasion, that just in the short ten minutes, his team already broke through the multi-layer authentication systems of the three major exchanges, gaining internal private key access rights…

Wait, how did they suddenly take control of a wallet named “MasterWallet” within Kraken…

Laymen may not understand the scenes unfolding in the software.

But John Martinis is sure that everything displayed represents the ruthless destruction of the platform security of the three major exchanges.

Wait, it’s started, the transfer operation has begun…

In just the twelfth minute, they can even simulate legitimate transaction requests!

How on earth did they manage this?!