Bitcoin crashed?
When Lu Zhou heard the news, he was completely dumbfounded.
He had originally planned to test whether the knife in his hand was sharp enough on Bitcoin, but before he could make a move, the entire Bitcoin market exploded on the spot, leaving nothing but a complete mess behind.
As for how he learned about it, that was rather interesting.
Most of those who had lost money could only swallow their broken teeth and keep it to themselves. No matter how angry they were, what could they do? It was not like they could storm Wall Street.
The players who had suffered the worst losses were more interesting. They took high-speed rail, planes, and maglev trains to Jinling, held up banners reading "Give Us Back Our Hard-Earned Money," found the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study, and blocked its entrance outright.
The commotion did not frighten the research geeks inside. Quite a few even stood by the windows to watch the show.
After all, the institute's security guards were no pushovers. When the security captain led his men to the entrance, they looked like a wall from afar. That menacing presence alone kept the people outside pacing around, too afraid to take a single step forward.
However, compared with the calm researchers inside the institute, the leaders of the park were far less composed. The moment they heard that the Institute for Advanced Study's entrance had been blocked, they were so frightened they nearly had to be sent to the ICU for heart trouble.
Police cars from almost the entire district were mobilized. Anyone unaware of the situation might have thought they were holding some massive counterterrorism drill.
Back in 2017, a document issued by the Hua Nation central bank had already set the tone: Bitcoin was a virtual