One, from mining machines to properties.
When Zhang Wei first walked into a luxury sales office in Lujiazui, he was wearing a Uniqlo T-shirt and 99 yuan jeans from Taobao. The salesgirl glanced at this young man, who was touching the leather sofa in the model room, thinking that he was just another 'keyboard warrior' here to satisfy his curiosity.
"How much is this?" Zhang Wei pointed at the Huangpu River view floor plan.
"Sir, this unit has a constructed area of 380 square meters and a total price of 68 million." The salesperson deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of 'million.'
"Oh, then I want two sets." Zhang Wei took out his phone to check the Bitcoin market: "Wait, make it three sets; BTC has risen again recently."
This is a real scene that happened in Shanghai in the spring of 2021. At that time, Bitcoin had just broken through 60,000 USD, and Ethereum was racing towards 4000 USD. In a certain internet café in Xuhui District, a group of poor kids mining overnight suddenly discovered that their MetaMask wallets contained eight-digit USDT values.
These stories circulate in the crypto circle like urban legends. Some say that one-third of the owners of Shenzhen Bay One are from the crypto world; it's rumored that on the opening day of a certain seaside property in Sanya, a young man wearing a fox-head mask directly paid for thirty down payments in USDT; even more exaggerated is a villa area in Suzhou, where the owners discuss K-line charts in a Telegram group, dubbed by locals as the 'Blockchain Community'.
Two, a magical realism guide to buying a house.
I know a delivery guy named Wang Qiang who once delivered food to a luxury home in Pudong. The person who opened the door was a young man in GUCCI pajamas, and inside, there were dozens of mining machines buzzing away. "Dude, your electricity bill could cover my deliveries for half a year." Wang Qiang sighed, and the other party scratched his head: "Mainly for heating in winter; it's cheaper than floor heating."
The purchase logic of these new rich is full of performance art colors. Some people specifically buy units with super-large basements just to convert them into mining rooms; some insist on buying sea view houses in Hainan, reasoning that 'trading coins requires calmness, and it's hard to FOMO while looking at the sea'; even more absurd is a senior executive from an exchange who bought a villa in Sheshan but never lives there. When asked, he said: 'It's for cold wallet storage; physical isolation is the safest.'
On-chain data does not lie. In 2021, when a certain top property in Beijing opened, the sales director noticed a strange phenomenon: nearly half of the customers' payment accounts came from exchanges like Huobi and Binance. These buyers had a common characteristic - they had no concept of shared area but could accurately calculate how many Ethereum each square meter was worth.
Three, the blockchain training class for luxury goods salespeople.
Vicky from a luxury goods store in Guomao told me that she can now recite the full English names of all mainstream cryptocurrencies. 'Last year, a customer tried on clothes when his phone suddenly alarmed. I thought it was a fire alarm, but he said Bitcoin had dropped below his stop-loss line.' She pointed to a sofa worth 2 million, 'We call this the '1 BTC sofa'; the price fluctuates with the market.'
A complete service industry chain has formed around these new rich, with intermediaries specifically organizing 'crypto house viewing groups'; house viewing vehicles equipped with professional mining machine hosting services; a certain decoration company launched 'digital currency-themed luxury home design', including LED market walls and anti-FOMO meditation rooms; even 'crypto wealth managers' have emerged, whose main job is to explain to clients why the money that could buy Tomson Riviera yesterday is only enough for an old, broken apartment on the outer ring today.
The most magical is the experience of a certain private equity manager. He met a young man claiming to be a 'DeFi farmer' at a party, and three months later received a WeChat message from the other party: 'Bro, your managed fund only yields 18% annually? I casually mined on Curve yesterday and made that amount.'
Four, the ghost of code behind the carnival.
Of course, these stories all have a B-side. On the night of the LUNA crash in 2022, dozens of lights reportedly lit up in a certain luxury area in Shenzhen - all traders awakened by liquidation alerts in the middle of the night. A friend of mine saw it with his own eyes; just before, a wealthy individual was discussing buying a yacht, and moments later, he posted a crowdfunding link in the group with a note saying 'Heavily invested in GMT and stuck, seeking crowdfunding for Gas fees.'
There was a programmer named Li Ming who cashed out at 4000 USD ETH to buy a Huangpu River view house. During the renovation, he specifically created a smart glass wall to display the value of his holdings in real-time. As a result, before the house was finished, the number on the glass wall had already dropped by two-thirds. Now he loves to recite sentences from Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper while gazing at the river from the balcony, looking like a modern-day Xianglin's wife in the digital age.
Five, the consensus mechanism in reinforced concrete.
The stories of exchanging code for reinforced concrete are essentially a large social experiment. When a certain Sanya property advertised 'Down payment 0.3 BTC', and when on-chain data showed a mysterious address transferring 2000 ETH just to buy a Suzhou garden villa, we see not only the flow of wealth but also the migration of value consensus.
Recently, Zhang Wei started learning to surf on the private beach of his Sanya mansion. One time he said to me: 'Do you know why we like buying houses? Because after spending so much time in the blockchain world, we particularly crave things we can touch.' Saying this, he patted the Hainan rosewood coffee table beside him, which was once worth the equivalent of 50 Bitcoin but may now only be worth 20.
The wave is coming. This former internet café boy is riding the surfboard forward, while in the on-chain world, a new wealth myth is brewing in some undiscovered meme coin. Who knows how these stories will solidify in the steel and concrete of cities when the next bull market arrives?
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