America's Road to Fame

Chapter 6 Is there an economic crisis?

"William, are you still home?"

It was Paris who called, and William Chen just got into the car at this time: "I'm here at Building 666, and I just did some things of my own."

"Great, I'm going to Fifth Avenue too, can you wait for me, I'll go right away." Hearing William Chen's answer, Paris said happily.

"I'm getting ready to go home, Paris, what's the matter?"

"It's like this. There is a party to attend tonight. I want to buy some clothes. Can you accompany me?"

What Paris said gave Chen William a headache, because he knew that once the two of them publicly appeared in the store on Fifth Avenue, the rumors about the two of them would soon be published in those tabloids, and it would be widely circulated. Not what William Chen wanted to see.

Thinking of this, William Chen immediately said to Paris: "I'm sorry, Paris, you know I'm not in a good state recently, I want to go home and take a rest first."

"William, are you okay, is it because yesterday we..." Paris really focused on William Chen's body, but this guess left him speechless.

"No, Paris, it should be my recent sobriety. I may not have said it. I reflected on it before and thought that I should stay away from alcohol, so I was ready to go to the AA to collect my sobriety badge."

Many people can see scenes in American dramas where someone takes out his alcoholic badge.These people are all because of alcoholism, and joined AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) in order to quit alcohol, which is the Alcoholics Aid Association, also known as Alcoholics Anonymous.

Members who join will attend parties to share their experiences and thoughts about quitting alcohol, and then the association will award them a quitting badge of honor.This badge represents a member's achievement in quitting alcohol, whether it is 24 hours, a month, a year or even ten years, there are corresponding badges for quitting alcohol.

Chen William currently hopes to improve the bad impression his predecessor left on others, so quitting drinking is a good first step. After all, he did not have any alcohol addiction in his previous life, and he rarely drank, so if he quit drinking, It doesn't have much impact on him, and it can give people a positive impression of being rehabilitated and reinvigorated.

"Really? William, it's great that you can do this. It would be even better if you could stay away from other dubious women. They only have your money in their eyes. Look at it now, those goddamn women Are all the women gone, I have already advised you to discipline yourself."

Sure enough, after hearing William Chen's words, Paris swept away the disappointment when William Chen could not go shopping with her just now, and said happily.

"Uh, Paris, I will try my best to stay away from these things. I'm so sorry today, can I stay with you some other day? By the way, who will be at the party tonight?"

"They are all acquaintances in New York. I don't know who they are, but Kim and Ivanta should also go." Paris thought for a while and said.

Kim should be another very well-known American celebrity, Kim Kardashian.She has a good relationship with Paris. Although many people in the United States are fascinated by her exaggerated figure, William Chen is definitely not among them. He always thinks it is too weird and doesn't like her very much.

But Ivanta, thinking of the woman with the appearance of an angel and the figure of a devil in his mind, William Chen felt a little moved.

And now is an extraordinary period, and I have to pay close attention to this woman, Paris, so that I don't accidentally ruin my big business.He didn't regard her as his girlfriend in the first place, the two of them were nothing more than friends, so if she had anything to do with others, William Chen would just break up with her at worst.

But the key now is that Paris is bound to my Future Bank. No matter what happens to her in the future, I can't let her do anything wrong in the half a month I have borrowed from the Future Bank, or the consequences will be very serious. serious.

So after figuring this out, Chen William said to Paris: "It's a pity that I can't go shopping with you. I'm really guilty. Paris, how about this? Let's go to the party with you."

William Chen's thoughtful words moved Paris immediately, and she said softly: "William, if you don't feel well, don't force yourself, there is still a chance next time, your body is important now, I really care Regret, I shouldn't be able to control myself yesterday, and you..."

Uh, big sister, can you please stop being associated with this thing, it makes me feel like *incompetent*.

William Chen was speechless for a while, and said: "I'm not as delicate as you think, but I'm still getting used to the process of staying away from alcohol. It's mainly about psychological adjustment. Well, it's settled, Paris, I Go home first, then you can go directly to me."

When he got home, William Chen opened the panel of Future Bank again. The [Account] panel still had a real available limit of 0. He had already borrowed out the amount of 5000 million US dollars. If he wanted to increase the amount, he had to wait until the current loan was repaid. .

When William Chen opened the [Events] page, he found a new event - [Investment Rewards for Newcomers]

Congratulations to new users who have borrowed for the first time. Please start your investment. We will give corresponding rewards according to the user's investment results.Please participate in the event in time.

There is a [Participate] selection box below this passage, Chen William immediately chose to participate, and then a notification box popped up: You have participated in the event, please pay attention to the event status.

Now it seems that the bank's activities in the future will all appear randomly, and William Chen doesn't know what the rules will be.However, since there was already an event, he naturally hurried to participate. Thinking of the gift package for newcomers before, he had some expectations for the reward of this task.

Opening his eyes, he thought about his future plans. Now that he has started investing, he will wait for the harvest in half a month.

However, although he has always convinced himself of the correctness of the Eye of the Future, William Chen will still feel a little apprehensive in the face of the unknown after he actually takes action. After all, he cannot settle down until the dust is settled.

What if, just what if, the report shown by the Eye of the Future did not come true?William Chen thought of this question, and now he has discovered that the world he lives in is still quite different from the world in his previous life, just like Paris' age, and those photographed in his previous memory. Movies seem to have never been heard of in the previous life.

As for the girlfriends who had dated in the previous life, only one or two had heard their names in the previous life, and they had no impression of the others. Either they were unknown all the time and finally disappeared in the entertainment circle, or they were two worlds again. of differences.

By the way, BTC!William Chen's eyes lit up, thinking of the two years before his rebirth in his previous life, the hottest topic was BTC. At that time, its price had historically exceeded 6 US dollars per coin. Even Musk, the richest man in the world at the time, They all bought a lot.It is now 1, BTC should have just been born, and it is far from entering the public's field of vision. It is only circulated among a small number of programmers in Silicon Valley, as a small circle of games.

And now those people are using computers to mine in their spare time, because the number of participants is very small, and the output of BTC has not experienced the subsequent three halvings, so the difficulty of mining is still very low. That mining program uses a computer to mine some and save them, even if only 10 pieces are kept, it will be billions of dollars in wealth after more than ten years!
William Chen became excited. He turned on his computer and searched for information about BTC online, but found nothing.Is this thing really so unpopular now that there is no discussion on the Internet?
It seems that when waiting to go to Silicon Valley, I have to ask someone.Chen William remembered that in his previous life, he was interested in this. He specially found the white paper of BTC and studied it for a while. He knew that it was launched in January 2009 and started Genesis Mining.It's been half a year now, so it shouldn't be possible to find even a little news on the Internet.

"There are legends that the creator of BTC, Nakamoto C, used to be a bank practitioner. Because of the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, the Federal Reserve issued a huge amount of money to rescue the market, plundering the wealth of the people, so he hopes to create a decentralized currency that will never be issued... ..."

William Chen was thinking about this question, muttering to himself, but heard a voice from beside him:
"What subprime mortgage crisis?"

He turned his head to look, and it turned out that Uncle Tom came in at some time and looked at him strangely.

"Oh, Uncle Tom, I'm talking about the economic crisis of the past two years, and I'm considering whether the impact has passed." William Chen didn't want Uncle Tom to hear about BTC, a new thing that he couldn't understand, and cause any trouble. Come, so he said casually.

"Economic crisis? Has there been an economic crisis in the past two years? Why don't I know. William, are you okay, is it here..." Tom pointed to his head and said, "Due to alcohol injury? You must go to the hospital with me tomorrow Check it out, promise me, William, be careful."

Seeing Tom's concerned expression, William Chen was stunned.No economic crisis?How could Uncle Tom not know such a big thing?
He immediately opened the webpage and searched for "subprime mortgage crisis", but did not get any useful results. He continued to search for the economic crisis, but the results he got were all things of the last century. F**k!William Chen couldn't help scolding, the subprime mortgage crisis really didn't happen in this world.

He slowly recalled that it seemed that his predecessor had no memory of the subprime mortgage crisis in his vague memory.However, because the memory of his predecessor was too vague, and he also thought that he didn't care much about economics, so he didn't think about it.

Moreover, his No. 666 building has a high vacancy rate and the recent increase in real estate valuations. He has always subconsciously believed that it was the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis and the recovery of real estate after the crisis. Now he finally understands that this world So far, there has been no subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.

(End of this chapter)