Are you curious about free money-making software?

　　If you have any doubts, this article will take you to explore the truth!

　　Can you earn money by watching videos? Can you earn money by reading news? Can you earn money by walking? Can you earn money by playing games? How do they make money? What is the underlying logic of these apps?

　　Are you really scraping the wool of the app? What do they earn money from? Are free money-making apps really doing charity?

　　What is internet mining? What is Online casino and How to find it? And how does blockchain subtly cheat you?online casino help and The most exciting gameplay

　　For 400 years after Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ was created, no one paid attention to it, why did it become known to everyone overnight, and its value was already as high as 3.4 billion US dollars at the beginning of the last century when it just entered the public view. Is it really because people’s artistic appreciation ability has just been tapped, and they have seen its artistic value?

　　Why is the value of limited edition sneakers getting higher and higher? What is the connection between them and blockchain? And what is the subtle connection between them and the essence of Online casino and How to find it?

　　Note:

　　1. Some nouns in the following content have been replaced, but the meaning remains unchanged

　　2. The content of the article only represents some of my opinions, purely driven by curiosity and idle talk.

　　The article is very long, please be patient and read it, hoping it will be helpful to you!

　　Some app versions that can earn money by watching videos, some app versions that can earn money by reading news, some app versions that can earn money by synthesizing pets, some app versions that can earn money by singing, some app versions that can earn money by walking, some app versions that can earn money by answering questions, and some app versions that can earn money by guessing idioms, etc.

　　Although the forms are various, the principles are similar.

　　The above apps are just a drop in the bucket of free money-making software, with hundreds of millions of downloads, and tens of thousands of red envelopes spent every day, who is supporting this huge expenditure?

　　My own personal experience, a few years ago I also downloaded a similar software, which is a synthesis game.

　　The game mode is very simple, drag the animals to upgrade, two level 1 animals upgrade to one level 2 animal, two level 2 animals upgrade to one level 3 animal, and so on. The higher the level, the faster the animals produce gold coins, and the gold coins produced are exchanged for a corresponding amount of money according to the game rules.

　　If you want to increase the amount of coin production, there are two ways:

　　①Watch ads to accelerate coin production for 60 seconds

　　②Get a large amount of gold coins immediately by inviting new users

　　→Since there is no recharge entry in the software, the functions are relatively simple, initially I thought the red envelopes I earned all came from advertising fees

　　→In a faint and ambiguous way, it seems as if a complete logical cycle has been formed:

　　→If users want to get more gold coins, they should bring in new users→

　　→The increase in new users can attract more advertisers→

　　→With more advertisers, there will be a continuous stream of advertising fees→

　　→The advertising fees will support the software ‘Survive’→

　　→Users of the software ‘Survive’ can keep earning gold coins→

　　→If users want to get more gold coins, they should bring in new users→

　　At first, my understanding of free money-making apps was that they could make money without recharge. The impact on me was just to consume time and electricity, just a shearing sheep app.

　　Perhaps, many people think this way.

　　So far, do you think you have seen through this game?

　　No!

　　The show has just begun, and what you think is just what the software company wants you to think.

　　Firstly, this is by no means a simple ‘shearing sheep’ game.

　　Most people think that the software’s revenue comes from advertising fees, so using ‘labor’ to exchange for Renminbi seems to be natural.

　　This is where they are more advanced than other money-making apps. Early free money-making apps require users to register as new users of an app, bind a bank card, undergo real-name authentication, and even do things in their own name, etc., their purpose is obvious.

　　However, the early money-making software has relatively strict requirements, and the withdrawal process is relatively complex. The video earning software mentioned at the beginning of the article actually has a real money-making model. They do not rely on deception, but only need users to move their fingers, watch videos, and play games to make money, which greatly reduces users’ vigilance.

　　The early promotion of the software is accompanied by the slogan ‘No recharge needed, login to receive red envelopes’, and most beginners basically believe in this software. Each user also indeed receives a cash red envelope of several to several tens of yuan.

　　But are there really good things that fall from the sky? After a few people get the money, they worry about being deceived and withdraw from this ‘shearing sheep game’, but the vast majority still cannot resist the temptation and continue to ‘shear sheep’.

　　Just think about it, the development and post-operation of a software product requires an investment of several million yuan, and the vast majority of free money-making software is led by small companies or micro-enterprises that have just registered.

　　The company boss invests a huge amount of money and wants to let tens of millions of users make money ‘free’. If you were the boss, would you do this?

　　Someone might think, can’t traffic be exchanged for money? This outdated idea was originally used by software companies to deceive people. To know, the profit-making methods of apps at present are only two, advertising and online product sales (including recharge).

　　Then someone might think, since no products are sold, it is obvious that profits come from advertising fees.

　　However, many people ignore the problem at this level of advertisers.

　　You simply equate the company’s revenue to advertising fees, but have you thought about it carefully?

　　If you are an advertiser, would you place your ads on the ‘free riders’ who download the software just for the sake of getting free money and have no interest in your ads? Even if Douyin pushes ads, they will be accurately pushed based on big data analysis of each user’s preferences. But what does this software rely on to obtain your personal preferences? Is it by watching ads or by upgrading small animals in games?

　　Perhaps at the beginning, some projects with excessive profits, such as games shouting ‘Cut 999 once, login to receive a full-level gift pack’ or some advertisers for private lending, may invest to increase exposure, but the software cannot survive a day relying solely on these small investments. So, what does the software company rely on to support tens of millions of users?

　　Unless the software vendor has enough capital to subsidize profits, even using the huge benefits brought by the software to support the continued operation of the app!

　　Do you think your user value is really just the advertising fees you get as a software traffic acquisition? You come for the freebie and the cheap deals, but in the company’s eyes, if you don’t exceed the value of the ‘freebie’, then this business is doing charity. Unfortunately, software vendors are not fools!

　　Earning advertising fees with the software is just a cover, and the real rules of the game are about to emerge!

　　Blockchain is the ultimate play in this game!

　　These so-called free money-making apps are wolves in sheep’s clothing, all claiming to use blockchain technology to create a world-wide Virtual currency. Then, with various marketing methods, they lure people to invest, boost the value of the currency (for the sake of simplicity, let’s understand it as the in-app currency exchanged by the software, but it is fundamentally different), and then the official sells the currency for cash and runs away.

　　This was a common trick five or six years ago. And their excuses for running away have become all too familiar, such as hacker attacks, network outages, shutdowns for repairs, company bankruptcy, and so on. I won’t list them all here.

　　However, their escape has little impact on most users. For users immersed in making coins, they have almost no losses.

　　However, a small number of users see that the company is playing with blockchain, and they also know that the software’s corresponding Virtual currency market value will skyrocket, so they keep buying. Finally, the software vendor suddenly cashes out and runs away, leaving these people stuck at the highest point, with losses ranging from several thousand to tens of thousands of dollars. This is the first step for the software vendor to make money – cashing out at a high price!

　　So, what is blockchain? News often reports on blockchain, and how does blockchain carry out fraud?

　　Next, let’s talk about blockchain in detail!

　　Popular science articles won’t burden everyone with a bunch of professional terms, such as distributed databases for identifying, disseminating, and recording information in an intelligent peer-to-peer network, or decentralized online record preservation systems, etc.

　　Putting aside the professional definition, let’s explain blockchain in one minute.

　　Just like later generations evaluated the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, among the myriad of ancient and modern poems, it seems that people think the more mystical the verses are, but they don’t realize that the amazingness of the verses lies in returning to simplicity and conforming to nature!

　　In simple terms, the blockchain is a transparent and open public ledger, where everyone’s money, who transfers the money to whom, and how much is transferred, among other detailed information, is recorded in the blockchain.

　　Let’s take a simple example. Suppose there are three users ABC, and here are their initial property numbers.

　　The blockchain records how much money user ABC has, as well as the flow of money. For example, when we make a transfer, A transfers 35BTC to B, and B transfers 0.01BTC to C, all of this will be recorded in this block.

　　Each block must have corresponding identification to mark the front and back.

　　Thus, the long chain composed of tens of thousands of blocks is the blockchain

　　Seeing this, some people may ask, if the blockchain doesn’t seem to have anything special, why is it considered the ultimate play?

　　If the function of the blockchain is just data storage, then it is too small to underestimate it. In the blockchain, to ensure the authenticity and validity of the data, some algorithms are usually used to verify whether it is real and reliable.

　　In this case, we first need to understand two concepts: hash algorithm and internet mining

　　The hash algorithm is to summarize the input data to get an output of constant length, and as long as any content is modified, the output result will be greatly different.

　　For example, if I input CSDN nine star and CSDN nine star#, the corresponding hash output will be completely different

　　Input CSDN nine star 4665be8a503eadf7f83c4a376d5379dfea690ca9CSDN nine star#ec45ae11ca10313210c21617ae75ae7d2120bcc5

　　Due to the complexity of the hash algorithm, hash algorithms are usually used in the blockchain to identify the file information of each block to ensure its uniqueness.

　　For example, when we download the Windows 10 operating system, we will see a string of hash summary (SHA1), which can be used to uniquely identify the file, just like everyone’s ID number.

　　To better understand, I use a relatively simple hash encryption program to demonstrate

　　Then start testing the SHA1 encryption result

　　Its essence is a base conversion, but the blockchain operation is more complex, as it will add message padding.

　　Firstly, divide the message into m processing blocks, then set the initial value for the hash. Finally, generate the message digest after processing the data, and then use the corresponding hash function to generate the hash value.

　　Although it sounds simple, calculating valid data actually consumes a lot of computing power, of course, this is a different story. Let’s get back to the topic of internet mining.

　　Internet mining, simply put, is the process of generating a block and linking it to the blockchain.

　　Taking B as an example, as mentioned above, the hash algorithm will generate a unique hexadecimal string identifier for each block.

　　Then we convert the hexadecimal to binary output

　　The rules of the game B hope that you can perform a second hash on this binary number to get a new combination, and make the first n digits of the final output result all 0. (In this experiment, n is up to the 73rd digit, which may be larger in actual practice, requiring greater computing power)

　　Then, with each additional digit in the sum behind the block hash value, a new set of binary results will be output. If you find the corresponding combination (block hash value + 871412813), you can obtain the corresponding B as a reward.

　　This tedious calculation process is the essence of internet mining. Different Virtual currency mining methods are similar but have different difficulty levels. Although mining programs can speed up the mining speed, the computing power of each computer is very limited.

　　1T hashing power can produce 0.00000656 B per day, which is a globally public data. The hashing power of one 3080ti is about 240-280M, and if we calculate it at the highest 280M of the entire network, it would take 57,817,731.7 3080tis mining simultaneously in a day to possibly mine one B.

　　Assuming that B’s hashing power reaches 23.6 billion hash collisions per second, it is equivalent to the number of mung beans in more than 200,000 football fields filled with mung beans. Even with such a large amount of hashing power, it takes about 10 minutes to collide with a hash value. At this speed, even if the computer is mining 24 hours a day, it will take at least 3 months to mine one B. In reality, it takes as little as a year to mine one B, and it takes a few years if it’s slower.

　　As for electricity costs, you can imagine it. Whether it’s a 3080ti or a mining machine, it’s not inferior to those high-power household appliances in the family. This is clearly a considerable expense.

　　Looking at this, why do we say that blockchain is the ultimate play of free money-making apps? I’m sure everyone has the answer in their hearts.

　　The essence of mining is to merge a small block into a large blockchain, which requires a lot of hashing power, and mining with graphics cards or mining machines has become very common.

　　Of course, the cheapest miners are still the users of free money-making apps. As the saying goes, ‘raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a day’, red envelopes are not given for free. Some software developers modify the internal operation mechanism of the software, and they only need to take a small amount of money as a red envelope bait to the users’ hands, and there will be several tens of millions even hundreds of millions of miners willing to mine voluntarily. In this way, it can also achieve the effect of mining with mining machines.

　　Do you think that’s the end? The great drama of software developers making money is just beginning!

　　When discussing mining earlier, we mentioned hashing power.

　　The scope of blockchain fraud is really surprising. Once, during a conversation with a relative, I learned that he was making money through an app called ‘some screw technology’. At that time, I didn’t pay much attention. I just took a quick look at the app’s personal homepage, and saw ‘some screw coin’, ‘TLBC’, ‘hashing power’. No doubt, it’s another mining software!

　　To put it simply, the so-called ‘some screw coin’ mentioned above is a Virtual currency. The app is essentially similar to other free money-making apps, with the same blockchain scheme and the same cheap miners.

　　Returning to the main topic, as mentioned at the beginning of the article, there are apps like Douyin’s极速版, money-making apps through answering questions, money-making apps through walking, and so on. Although they are essentially also mining, their additional functions can still be considered as competent apps. Not to mention whether mining will affect phone performance, as an app goes, they can provide users with video browsing, news reading, exercise motivation, entertainment and leisure services, and have certain social value in themselves.

　　But the significance or purpose of these apps lies more in building the value of their Virtual currency, which is what software developers truly need to do.

　　While you are foolishly earning gold coins and collecting red envelopes, those who understand the rules of the game are directly rushing into the Virtual currency market for transactions. They have been waiting for the moment when the sheeps-cutting game really opens: the opening of Virtual currency transactions.

　　So, this also answers the initial question: what do software companies make money from?

　　That’s right, the right to issue Virtual currency and produce Virtual currency is in their hands. As the value of Virtual currency increases, they gradually open transactions, manipulate the value, and reap the sheeps.

　　Someone might ask, why haven’t those small Virtual currencies seen transactions for several years?

　　This issue can be explained by the speed of mining in the past, they are not closed, but many people just don’t feel it.

　　For example, if B experiences big ups and downs, it is bound to attract media attention, and ordinary users might get to know a little about it.

　　But if you switch to other Virtual currencies like Litecoin (LTC), Zetacoin (ZET), Ethereum (ETH), and so on, their fluctuations are almost imperceptible to most people, but do you know that all of them are among the top 10 Virtual currencies!

　　Virtual currencies ranked in the top globally are like this, let alone those created by small companies.

　　Of course, there is also an important reason that manipulators choose long-term profit instead of killing the chicken to get the eggs, making a big profit and then running away, in order to avoid risk.

　　This can make the sheeps who think they are getting a free ride feel nothing, and can also stabilize a few sheeps who want to invest in Virtual currency, which is truly a two-edged sword!

　　Since Virtual currency can make money, why are there still so few people trading Virtual currency?

　　Think about it, if the model of profiting from trading Virtual currency is no problem, then why don’t Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, and Huawei, these internet giants, follow ‘the so-called blockchain’ and create Baidu Coin, Tencent Coin, Alibaba Coin, and Huawei Coin?

　　Because they know that blockchain projects under this model are all bubbles with zero long-term value. Think about it, mining consumes this country’s huge electricity, but does it provide any value to society? Its essence is to make money at the expense of most people.

　　That’s why some people on the internet call all Virtual currencies ‘air coins’!

　　So, what is the truth behind the bubble of Virtual currency?

　　In fact, they are all playing with one thing in the end – consensus, that is, IP.

　　A company sells goods by building its brand, and an individual in the workplace survives by building his personal IP. In fact, both are about improving one’s popularity among the target audience.

　　Everyone knows about Guizhou Moutai, but only a few tens of millions of people have actually tasted it, this is consensus!

　　The more people know about a company, the bigger its sales market is; the more people know about Zhang San, the broader his career map is.

　　Whether it’s corporate strategy, star effect, or neighborhood gossip and word-of-mouth, it’s all the same.

　　Although the IP thing is intangible, it is real gold and silver.

　　For example, gold, diamonds, antiques, famous paintings, and celebrity signatures, all of which are manifestations of consensus. As long as a thing reaches a consensus in the hearts of the people and is considered a symbol of wealth, it will always have buyers, just like gold and Virtual currency!

　　This also answers the question at the beginning of the article about ‘Mona Lisa,’ which was originally a very ordinary painting in the Louvre, not even worth mentioning as a treasure of the museum.

　　Until it was stolen by a thief, it was recovered two years later, and major media rushed to report on this hot topic, attracting the attention of the whole nation in just a few days. Riding on this momentum, with experts’ comments and government intervention, it became popular across Europe in just a few months, with auction prices starting at 100 million. This is what we call IP!

　　No matter what the packaging of all blockchain is, whether it’s exchanging AA coins for watching videos, exchanging AB coins for reading news, or exchanging AC coins for walking steps, their core is only one thing: to create the consensus of this Virtual currency and use various marketing methods to increase its consensus value.

　　The tasks in those free money-making apps are nothing more than trying to make you recognize their virtual currency (Virtual currency) and subconsciously enhance its value.

　　Only by reaching this premise can the manipulators sell at high prices later, and only with strong capital flow can the software continue to operate.

　　Finally, when the manipulators leave the scene and there is no follow-up marketing, the IP value of the virtual items dissipates, and only the tokens in the hands of retail investors depreciate day by day. This is the destiny of Virtual currency!

　　Consensus, which does not exist objectively, is completely transferred by human will.

　　Just like how the post-80s generation invested in stocks, the post-90s generation invested in coins, and the post-00s generation invested in sneakers, none of them are not capital games under the consensus economy.

　　By now, do you think you understand blockchain better?

　　NO! There is still one last act in this capital game!

　　Since the manipulators make a small amount of money through advertisers and another part through mining and speculating on Virtual currency, what is the remaining part?

　　Selling shovels!

　　That’s right, it’s called ‘selling shovels.’ In simple terms, it’s not allowing users to mine directly with their hands, which is inefficient and makes it difficult for the manipulators to make money. Instead, they first make you buy a shovel produced by themselves, and then mine for them to maximize profits.

　　Although it sounds incredible and even funny, how much money can ‘selling shovels’ make? Who is so foolish to work for them after buying ‘shovels’?

　　The reality is that many people! Not to mention macro data, let alone the blogger himself, there are a dozen friends around him who ‘buy shovels’. Some of them have been deceived and have no result after appealing in various ways, and some of them admit their defeat.

　　When talking about this, some people may be curious, what is a ‘shovel’? What is the ‘selling shovels’ doing?

　　Then let’s talk about the ‘shovel’ next

　　During the boom period of Taobao store opening, some people are selling various Taobao courses, auxiliary store opening software, and store operation courses on the Internet;

　　During the boom period of Baidu search, some people are selling SEO tutorials, website owner tools, and website construction tutorials on the Internet;

　　During the boom period of micro-commerce, some people are selling tutorials on selling goods in朋友圈, micro-commerce auxiliary tools, and micro-commerce traffic attraction courses on the Internet;

　　During the boom period of short videos, some people are selling short video training courses, teaching you to make money easily through short videos.

　　During the boom period of new concepts like blockchain and the metaverse, some people are selling blockchain and metaverse courses, claiming that some people have made millions of yuan through the metaverse.

　　It is not difficult to find that they all have a common characteristic, taking advantage of the popularity to vigorously promote their products, making people mistakenly believe that after learning the tutorial, they can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month.

　　This is what is called ‘selling shovels’!

　　This ‘selling shovels’ method is much easier than the previous one, after buying the course, the cabbage A didn’t make any money, is he blaming himself or blaming the direction of development of these emerging concepts?

　　The answer is obvious, although all kinds of shovels emerge in endlessly, but what never changes is that the same group of people are playing with ‘blockchain and IP’. (Of course, it is not excluded that some institutions are genuinely imparting knowledge)

　　Let’s take the metaverse course as an example, the people who pay attention to it are usually three types

　　Professional people in the blockchain industry and investors who follow the frontiers of technology

　　Who is playing the role of the ‘cabbage’ is already very clear, whether it’s opening a Taobao store or a short video course, although they are different, even unrelated, but the hands behind them are the same.

　　By the time this consensus is passed on to the latecomers, the early birds have already prepared for profit and withdrawal, and the latecomers are all the suckers in this game. This is the case in the stock market, the cryptocurrency circle, and those eye-catching money-making projects on the market.online casino entrance and Latest Address

　　Whether it’s opening a Taobao store, doing search engine optimization, micro-commerce, short video, or the metaverse, blockchain, and so on, these are indeed new concepts for people at that special time node. These new concepts have indeed shown their strong vitality at that special time node, but people’s understanding of these new concepts is still lacking.

　　The amazing part about the manipulators is that they usually bring their courses into the public eye before a consensus is formed on the concept. No one knows when the next ‘shovel’ will appear? In what form will it appear?

　　This article is inspired by the moment, what I see and think may just be a drop in the ocean, here it only represents my personal opinion, shared with everyone.