America's Road to Fame

Chapter 309 Live
"This is the case at present. The software has been launched, and what needs to be done after that is to continue to optimize. The main thing is to use streaming media video compression and caching technology, and strive to occupy the least amount of mobile phone memory and bandwidth under the premise of ensuring clarity. "

Leaving Los Angeles, William Chen continued to come to Silicon Valley. He is now at the headquarters of Meta Technology, and Sundar Pichai is showing him a project that the company incubated internally under the proposal of William Chen.

The function of this software called Live was already very common in his previous life, that is, webcasting.

Even now, the earliest live broadcast platform has appeared in the United States, but it still only stays on the PC side.After all, the development of software cannot be separated from the upgrading of hardware.

If you want to use your mobile phone to watch or broadcast live, the first problem you need to face is the speed of the mobile network.

It is still in the 3G era, and the speed of the mobile network is still unable to support relatively clear mobile webcasting. That is to say, in countries and regions with relatively complete broadband facilities, it is still possible to use a computer camera to broadcast live and use a PC to watch.

But it’s coming soon, starting from the third quarter of this year, mobile operators in the United States have started to build 4G networks, so soon, the 4G era will come, making mobile live broadcasting possible.

Naturally, William Chen will not wait for the popularization of 4G networks before entering this field. At least for now, it is a good choice to start the live broadcast industry from the PC side.

And this industry is very important to William Chen's future plans, so before that, he had already benefited from Sandal, the CEO of Meta Technology, and started to incubate this project.

By this time, the project has finally matured and can be launched into the market. At most, the live broadcast can only be done through computer equipment, and the mobile APP has been developed, but due to the lack of mobile networks, that is, smartphones It can only be used on China Unicom WiFi, and the freeze situation under the 3G network is quite obvious, unless you choose a slightly lower resolution.

This software is named Live, and it is also the first Internet project incubated by Meta Technology. It will be promoted on Twitter, HOLA and Reddit, and when users use these applications, if friends are live broadcasting or watching a live broadcast, You can choose to display the status at that time, and other people can directly click on the status of the other party to open the associated Live program and enter the other party's live broadcast room.

"For this software, you also need to contact Meta Entertainment Media Company, especially Valve Game Company. Their Steam game platform can be combined with Live to promote this live broadcast software there, and contact well-known gamers on Twitter to invite them Use Live to broadcast live.”

"In addition, find someone to do some research. When the props function is enabled on Live, users can buy props in Live through PayPal to reward the anchor, and we then divide the anchor according to different props. Well, the share in the early promotion period The ratio can be properly tilted towards the anchor, as long as we don’t owe money.”

Chen William will choose some tricks of the live broadcast platform in the future, choose the ones that can be used now, and explain to Sundar, such as ranking the anchors, recommending more resources for the popular ones, and signing the potential anchors directly. Give a favorable sharing contract...

In short, the biggest purpose is to maximize the promotion of the Live broadcast platform as soon as possible and attract more anchors and users.

The conditions for live broadcasting on mobile phones are not good enough now, so the most important live broadcasting categories are game live broadcasting, talent live broadcasting, and pure beauty and handsome guy appearance live broadcasting.

Of course, the related resources of Meta Group and Future Group can also be used, such as the live broadcast promotion of film companies, online interviews of media groups, singer promotion of music companies, and even Manchester United Club, which can also allow stars to communicate with each other through live broadcasts. Fans communicate, anyway to do this, they have too many resources.

William Chen finished talking to Sundar, waited for him to understand, and then answered some of his questions.

At this moment, his eyes glanced at a computer screen next to him, and he froze for a moment.

"boss?"

Sundar noticed his expression and asked puzzledly.

"Oh, it's okay." William Chen's expression quickly returned to normal. He pointed to a software interface running on the screen and asked, "What is that, is it also developed by our company?"

"This." Sundar looked in Chen William's direction, and said with a smile: "This seems to be a new gadget that has appeared recently. What is it called BitC? It doesn't make much sense. It's just a gadget. Just open to dig this BitC, I just think the concept is very interesting.”

……

After arranging to release the Live, William Chen returned to his villa in Silicon Valley. He was still thinking about the interface of the software he saw from Sundar. He had never used that software in his previous life. , but because of interest later, I saw that early interface in some popular science articles.

Now, he is no longer an amateur about computers and the Internet in his previous life. When he returned to his study, he turned on the computer and searched for information about this BitC.

Soon, he saw an article published online by someone in May of this year, whose name was——

BitC: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System……

The author of this article is Satoshi Nakamoto. Chen William set his sights on the name Satoshi, which is a Japanese transliteration, and translated into Japanese, it is さとし.

He once saw these Japanese letters on a USB flash drive. He once hoped to find an encryption expert for HOLA, so he met a strange person under the introduction of David Jones of HOLA Technology. That person When William Chen left, he gave him a USB flash drive, and that USB flash drive was conveniently placed in his study in his villa in the Upper East Side of New York.

William Chen continued to search and found BitC's program. By looking up historical block information, he finally saw that the first block, which is the Genesis block, was generated on July 7 this year.

There is only one coinbase transaction in this block, which contains a sentence, which is a news headline:
Time Magazine 05/JUL/2009 Chairman of the Eurogroup and Prime Minister of Luxembourg Juncker announced that member states of the Eurozone agreed to provide Greece with a three-year bailout loan of 1100 billion euros.

Seeing this, William Chen heaved a sigh of relief. He closed all the webpages, and couldn't help but open his mailbox, and found the contact record with Frey Hills. The last email was from him last year. Sent on October 10th:

"Sorry, Mr. William, I have unavoidable circumstances that prevent me from accepting your offer. Of course, it would be nice to meet you in person. I don't have a mobile phone, so if you're interested, you can do so tomorrow (October 2009, 10) Around ten o'clock in the morning, at the statue by the lake on the south side of Central Park, I will sit on a bench there and wait for you. Best regards."

After that, except for a reply letter from William Chen, there was no letter from him again.

William Chen held the mouse and clicked to send the letter. After typing "Hello, Mr. Frey...", he stopped, and finally deleted the typed letters and closed the mailbox.

He shook his head, what can he say at this moment?Ask him if he is Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto who created BitC?Or discuss BitC with him?Or tell him how BitC will succeed in the future?
When he thought of the physical condition that Frey Hills had told him about, it seemed that everything was meaningless, not to mention that in this world, he could really guarantee that this BitC would still be the same. Is it the usual development in the previous life?
Even if it was true, what he said now seemed to be comforting a person who had few lives left.

William Chen seemed to have returned to the Central Park that day, the breeze was blowing, the lake surface was rippling with faint ripples, and the conversation between himself and Frey Hills was still in his ears.

What I thought would never appear again appeared again, and it seemed to have something to do with me. Is all this a coincidence, or is it God's will, or is the inevitable development of things?

William Chen also became unsure.

On that day, when Chen William left Central Park, he just regarded this day as a short period of strange circumstances in his life, but many things, when he remembered again on a certain day in the future, had already been foreshadowed.

(End of this chapter)