Chapter 221 Influence
Zhang Jun has not had a good rest since Samad posted on Twitter.

People from all walks of life came to him to ask about the situation of Alpha Technology.

After the Da Mao hacker group successfully used the Haohan-I quantum computer to complete an attack on the core system of a large bank, the core employees of Quantum National Shield and even the entire company were brought under supervision.

"Previously, some domestic professors approached us to discuss whether the Haohan-I quantum computer could be used in the field of code breaking, and we have also done some exploration.

Including the top two universities in the country, they have come to discuss cooperation before.

However, with a single unit priced at 5000 million RMB, even Shuimu or Yanda do not have the budget to allocate to the field of cryptography.

So this kind of cooperation has always remained on paper," said Zhang Jun.

“There are also many scholars in China who combine quantum computers with cryptography, because quantum computers do have unique advantages in solving certain problems.

It’s just that their research area is basically on how quantum computing can be used to encrypt passwords.

Like Academician Wang of Shuimu, she is a big name in the field of cryptography. After the millennium, she broke the MD5 cryptographic standard, making the MD5 standard obsolete in applications.

Her research on quantum computers mainly focuses on lattice cryptographic algorithms that can resist attacks by quantum computers.

Professor Han from HKUST is the director of the Quantum Cryptography Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Cryptography, and his research field is also quantum cryptography communication application networks.

We are still in a vacuum in the field of quantum computer decryption."

Even if it is a luxury product, as long as you don’t care whether it is authentic or not, China can satisfy you.

But this is not the case for China. If China is kicked out of the Swift international settlement system, it will be difficult to find a substitute and it will be difficult for international partners to adopt a point-to-point trading method.

In the past, China has been preparing to find a replacement for the Swift international settlement system, and their "Currency Bridge" project, which began in 18, is one of them.

Even if we are kicked out now, the best solution in the short term is to find an intermediary country and settle the accounts with the intermediary country one-on-one, and then the intermediary country will use Swift trade settlement.

At the same time, I am promoting my "currency bridge" on a global scale. Everyone has to do business. If Swift cannot be used, my currency bridge can be used.

When the Chinese side learned that they had delivered ten Haohan-I quantum computers at one time, handed over all their own inventory, and signed a contract for a total of 100 units, the leaders of Quantum National Shield were very dissatisfied.

I think they have no foresight and did not think before signing the contract. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

“In the order we signed with Alpha Technology, the penalty for breach of contract was set at a maximum of 30 percent.

And it is based on 30% of the actual loss.

According to the current situation, it is difficult for us to define the exact amount of loss." Zhang Jun said distressedly.

China obviously does not want to continue to fulfill this order. This is not a matter of money, but the importance of quantum computers is no longer the same as it used to be.

Once exported, what will happen if the federal government uses it on Chinese banks?
Although they were exported to Malaysia, China did not believe that Malaysia could keep the goods. The 100 Haohan-I quantum computers must have been transported back to the Federation in different ways.

The methods are nothing more than robbing openly or stealing secretly.

this is the truth.

"I have finally understood that we still need core technology. Quantum Shield has a monopoly in the field of 10,000 quantum bits. As long as room-temperature superconductivity is not opened up to foreign technology giants, they will not be able to break through this limitation.

Now it’s our turn to strangle them, and it feels so good.”

“Before, I was too superficial and thought that quantum computers were useless and far from being practical. The Haohan-I quantum computer was just a story launched by Quantum National Shield to hype up the capital market. Later, only two were sold in more than a year, which made me more determined to think so.

Who knows, quantum computers will either be a hit or a surprise. Before, the outside world just couldn’t find a use for it, but now its value has been fully realized.

I think the only thing that is a bit of a loss is that the product was sold too cheaply to the Malaysian company. The leaders of Quantum Shield are *, how can they sell their high-tech products so cheaply?

Or maybe wild boars can’t eat fine bran. Even though these domestic companies have core technologies, they dare not charge high premiums. Just like when they made copycat products before, they are still obsessed with low prices.

Look at Alpha Technologies. Their cloud is priced at $24 an hour. At this rate, if they rent it out for 365-hour non-stop operation, that is, 4380 days a year, they can earn $ million from a single Hooray-I quantum computer.

Not only can they make back their investment in a year, but they can also make hundreds of millions of RMB from you.

Look at them, look at you, I really don’t want to say whether the management of Quantum Shield can open up the situation.”

Various media outlets have long publicized the details of the RSA hack, not to mention the role played by Chinese technology. The Chinese people are fond of this core technology.

The shareholders (leeks) of Quantum Guodun are even more excited: the opportunity to make a profit has come.

The veteran stock investors in the stock forum are almost tired of pressing their computers.

They were even more angry about the fact that all the production capacity for the next ten years was sold to Malaysian companies, saying that Quantum Shield was too bad at doing business and had no vision at all.

Little did they know how happy they were when the announcement was made, believing that the leadership of Quantum Shield was capable enough to sell its products in Malaysia, a remote place like this.

However, things did not develop at all as investors expected. When the market opened the next day, Quantum Guodun announced that it would delist.

After the importance of quantum computers has been thoroughly confirmed, China does not want the outside world to know how many quantum computers they produce a year, which companies these quantum computers are sold to, and what technological progress they have made in the field of quantum computers.

These details must be disclosed to the public when the company goes public.

The delisting of Quantum Guodun was a bolt from the blue for shareholders. They had thought it was an opportunity to turn things around, but it ended up being bought out all at once. Not only could they turn things around, they were not sure they could even get their money back.

After a day of fermentation, the global capital market ushered in an unprecedented avalanche. Things were not at all as Goldman Sachs predicted. They thought they could control the situation, but in fact they could not control it at all.

Goldman Sachs hoped to start with Europe and Japan and reap the banks in these two places. As a result, the first to avalanche was the most financially prosperous federal country, and all bank stocks in the federal market plummeted.

Bank stocks, which were already overwhelmed by the interest rate hike, collapsed across the board.

The federation was forced to come out and claim that due to the complexity of the current situation, information security could not be guaranteed and all types of trading systems were at risk of being breached by a major power at any time, so they chose to temporarily suspend trading for three days.

Seeing that the US stock market took the lead and set an example, other countries quickly followed suit. From Europe to Japan and Korea, stock markets around the world fell into a period of silence.

There have been many cases in the history of U.S. stocks being suspended due to war, weather and other reasons. For example, during World War I, the New York Stock Exchange was closed for nearly half a year.

After the end of S2, US stocks have been suspended from trading, but this is the first time that all-day trading has been suspended for three days.

And in the federal announcement, it was claimed that trading would be temporarily suspended for three days, and the subsequent suspension time was to be determined.

This is an unprecedented event, and the Federation's leading position in science and technology has once again been widely questioned by the world. "In the past few years, Chinese companies have been able to embarrass America in the field of advanced technology. Whether it is perovskite batteries or topological semimetals, these exclusive technologies of China have made America's proud technological leadership seem so embarrassing.

For this reason, American has begun to invest heavily in these areas in an attempt to catch up, while also making efforts in the field of artificial intelligence to demonstrate its technological advantages through various artificial intelligence applications.

But this time, Alpha Technology from Malaysia announced that the RSA cryptographic system had been hacked, and through public cloud services, it let the world experience how much damage the hacking of the RSA cryptographic system would cause.

The core equipment used in this, a quantum computer with 10,000 quantum bits, can only be produced in China.

This is another fatal blow to the Federation. The Federation's presence in the field of high-end technology is getting weaker and weaker, and its advantage in the field of artificial intelligence is not enough to offset it. China has mastered advanced quantum computer technology. Can your artificial intelligence defend against China's attack using its technological advantage? "

The French media were keen to add fuel to the fire.

The third brother is the one who most hopes that the eldest and second brother will fight.

The second one might sell technology to them, but the first one is so stingy that not only he won't sell technology to them, he's also obsessed with reaping the benefits from them, not only money but also your business.

“As quantum computers reach 10,000 qubits, all traditional encryption methods will no longer be trustworthy, as I will prove in a future blog post.

It is precisely because I see this future that I believe BTC is the future.”

With cryptography experts like Samad supporting BTC, BTC experienced another round of surge, rising another 7 percentage points on the day.

You should know that the price of BTC has already reached the $12 mark, and 7 percentage points is already an exaggerated number.

This time, with the surge, countless short sellers who thought it was time for a pullback were wiped out.

Samad reaped the benefits of global cryptocurrency short sellers through this battle.

Also making money by doing counterparty business, Chen Yuanguang earned 10 billion, and Goldman Sachs probably earned several hundred billion.

But the damage Goldman Sachs has caused to the federal financial situation is beyond the reach of hundreds of billions of dollars.

In other words, no matter how much Goldman Sachs earned, the Federal Government as a whole suffered at least ten times the loss.

Goldman Sachs was happy, but the federal government was unhappy. However, the federal government could not do anything about Goldman Sachs.

After the third day, Israel took the lead in launching an attack. They believed that the company that provided quantum computer services to the Russian hacker team should be held responsible for their losses.

They believe Alpha Technologies should compensate Israel National Bank for all its losses.

This is not enough. They also hope that China will pay compensation because the quantum computers were sold by Chinese companies.

The Federation called on China to disclose its quantum computer technology at the United Nations, believing that all financial systems are currently facing an unprecedented crisis.

Only quantum encryption can save the precarious financial security. As one of the important forces in the world, China should shoulder its own responsibilities.

Of course China would not agree. Why should I make my technology public? Not to mention that it is related to China's room-temperature superconductivity, so it is even more impossible to make it public.

China said, don’t even think about it, we will provide quantum encryption services to partners around the world who are willing to cooperate in the future.

That’s right, China not only hopes to take the opportunity to launch an international monetary settlement system to replace Swift, but also hopes to become a bodyguard for global financial business.

I have an absolute advantage in the field of quantum computers, so based on this advantage, we can develop quantum encryption and provide security services to various countries' transaction systems, bank settlement systems, national identity authentication systems, etc. There is nothing wrong with that.

Previously, the Federation accused China’s communications equipment of having backdoors, so this time I became its bodyguard.

What does this mean? This means that before China only wanted to sell you the door lock, but now China wants to directly sell you the door and the bodyguard.

Of course, the Americans would not agree. In their view, this is like throwing the chicken to the weasel. How can the chicken survive?

But the paradox now is that if you don’t use quantum computer encryption, your protection is like a layer of paper that can be broken with a slight poke.

What worries the Federation even more is that quantum computers can be used for both defense and offense. China's quantum computers have a generational advantage. Does this mean that if the two sides go to war in the future, the Federation will be able to see everything clearly?

All transmissions are subject to interception.

In some key technologies, China's accumulated technological advantages have gradually begun to cause a federal collapse-style crisis of trust.

“Hello, Mr. Samad, I am Nandal, President of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific.

Even though he was talking to a cell phone, Schneider remained respectful.

He knew very well what this man had done in just three months. The other party had increased his capital from 5000 million US dollars to 100 billion US dollars, a full 200 times increase.

This is an absolute miracle, and everyone will admire this achievement.

The other party has become a legend in the cryptocurrency circle.

"Hello, Mr. Schneider, please tell me how Goldman Sachs would like to cooperate." A voice with a strong AI flavor came from the other end of the phone, which made Schneider even more curious about Samad's true identity.

"We hope to buy out your quantum computer orders and purchase your current 10 Horizon-I quantum computers," said Snander.

After listening to this, Chen Yuanguang knew that they couldn't refuse.

Not to mention Goldman Sachs, Malaysian officials are also eyeing these ten quantum computers.

The physical equipment is lying in the Nusajaya campus in Johor. It cannot be hidden, even with Alpha Technologies’ current strength.

If you have to sell it sooner or later, the only thing you can do is to sell it at a good price.

"Make your bid."

Schneider breathed a sigh of relief. As long as they were willing to sell, that was good.

Although the Federation was unwilling to sell, it would find ways to seize it, but Schnander did not want to offend the other party.

"5000 million dollars a piece."

“Too low, these are the only 10,000-qubit quantum computers you can buy right now.

If I sell it to the Russians, I believe they will be willing to offer a higher price."

(End of this chapter)