Episode 27 of 'Rebirth: A New Life in the Cryptocurrency World' - 'The Blaze of Computing Power and Destiny'

When Zhang Lei's mining machine caught fire,

The college entrance exam countdown clock on the wall of the server room was pointing to 47 days.

Lin Feng smelled a strong burnt odor and rushed into the sea of flames.

Twelve graphics cards sizzled in the flames like skewers,

This was not an ordinary heat sink,

But a mining machine cooling device modified from a cafeteria barbecue rack by Zhang Lei.

At this moment, it was spewing out tongues of fire wrapped with Bitcoin symbols,

Like a crazy cat roasting machine.

"The circuit breaker! Pull the circuit breaker!"

Su Tingting's screams mixed with the sound of the fire hydrant spraying,

Lin Feng felt his way to the control box in the dark,

But found that the circuit breaker had been welded shut in the closed position.

"Chu Yunting sent someone to repair the circuit last week; he tampered with it."

In the firelight, Lin Feng saw the blurry cat roasting logo on the wreckage of the machine case,

That was the model of the mining machine designed by Zhang Lei's father during his lifetime,

Now turned to ashes and metal debris.

"It's good that this broken card burned out!"

Zhang Lei suddenly emerged from the thick smoke, tightly holding an undamaged power supply module,

"My sister's dialysis fees... Chu Yunting said this batch of mining machines can break even in three days..."

Lin Feng saw the medical report peeking out from his school uniform pocket,

The edges were already charred by the licking flames.

As the red and blue lights of the fire truck swept over the ruins,

Chu Yunting's truck had quietly stopped on the playground.

Workers were digging out fragments of graphics cards from the burnt wreckage,

Like collecting trophies, tossing them into the truck.

"The computing power prison needs building materials."

Chu Yunting casually threw a stack of cash to Zhang Lei,

The stains on the bills were unknown whether juice or blood.

Lin Feng squatted in the pile of ashes, his fingertips touched a sharp metal piece,

On it was half a burnt design drawing page,

Lin Jianguo's signature flickered in and out of the firelight.

That was his father who had been missing for seven years.

Su Tingting discovered something even more astonishing in the puddle of fire-fighting water,

A piece of unburned printed paper stuck to the mud,

The unique tea-colored magnetic powder of the Hitachi hard disk shimmered in the moonlight.

That was a fragment of Satoshi Nakamoto's email from 2009:

"... Computing power should be as free as a dandelion..."

The latter part of the text was blurred by the water stains,

Resembling the unfinished suicide note his mother wrote years ago.