Chapter 2
Chapter 2
22 years old winter.
His long and long military career was over.
“Loyalty! Sergeant Jinhu Kang was ordered to discharge! Report this!”
When he finished reporting his discharge to the battalion commander, he realized that he was finally discharged. Officers and troops followed him to the guard post to see him off.
The officer patted my shoulder and said.
“It was a lot of trouble. Even when I go out in society, I am as healthy as I am now.”
“······Yes.”
Health is crap.
A healthy body came here and became a bone disease.
* * *
I got on the bus and headed home.
The house changed several times while I was in the military. The current house is a semi-basement studio in Heukseok-dong with a deposit of 5 million won and a monthly rent of 400,000 won.
When I went down the stairs and opened the front door, I was choked with moisture and musty smell. I opened the window to ventilate.
I wanted someone to buy a house like this, and that’s me.
Isn’t a quarter and a half better than this?
When I put down my luggage and looked around, there was a small folding table on one side of the kitchen, and a tablecloth was placed on it.
I opened the dining table.
There were bowls with lids, five sheets of 10,000 won, and a cell phone. And there was a note on it.
“Congratulations, my son.
Mom is out of work, so she’s eating and resting.
I leave my pocket money, and I meet my friends.
see you later tonight
-Dear mother->
“Looks like you went to work today.”
A few months ago, I was told that I was working at the customer service center of Lite Department Store in Gangnam through a person I knew. I can’t leave my seat on the day my son is discharged from the military.
I sat down on the floor and ate cold rice and cold soup.
* * *
when i was young
My family lived in a two-story detached house, and on weekends we used to go out to eat in a luxury sedan.
Although he wasn’t very rich, he seemed to have lived a decent life.
My father was the president of the company. It was a small factory with about 10 employees. It was a business that he started with his bare hands and developed throughout his life.
My father told me to take over the family business, and I went to Hankuk University’s business school.
After graduating, I was planning to help my father grow the company.
Things changed around the end of the first year.
The original contractor suddenly canceled the supply contract and the company was in crisis. My father ran all over the place with the employees to save the company.
Although it is difficult to grow a company, it is easy to go bankrupt.
The final bankruptcy date.
The shocked father died on the spot of a cerebral hemorrhage.
When there was a scene in a drama or movie where a family that was doing well in an instant, I thought it was just someone else’s business.
I didn’t know our house would be like that.
From the bankruptcy of the company to Byung-hwan father I don’t know how time passed after that. The house and car they lived in went to auction one after another.
He underwent several surgeries, but his father never got up and died in the hospital.
He had to worry about the cost of living right away, and there was no way he could get the tuition.
Men have two options in this case.
One is studying abroad and the other is the military. Studying abroad was unreasonable for me, who had no money and no preparation. However, the Korean army buys it even if it has no money and is not ready, but if it is okay, it will accept it.
So I took a leave of absence and enlisted in the military.
* * *
After I finished eating, I washed the dishes and lay down in the room.
The cold air rising from the floor stabbed his back. After removing the bathroom, kitchen, and some furniture, the empty space in the studio was less than three pyeong.
Living with my mother in this small place is complicated.
I felt more comfortable when I was in the military. They fed me, put me to sleep, and gave me a monthly salary, although it was like a rat’s tail.
But when I was discharged, my eyes were dark.
At this age, I can’t afford to continue to spend money. First you have to earn money.
I turned on my cell phone and made a call to Minyoung, who is a hypermotivator.
Tutu! Click!
[Hello. Who?]“Are you Min-young? I am Jinhui.”
Then, the other person’s voice over the receiver changed happily.
[Hey! how much is this Are you on vacation?]“No, I was discharged today.”
[Oh oh! Congratulations!]I took it out of the box.
“Can you help me find a tutoring position?”
Among college student part-timers, the best part-timer is by far the best part-timer. The problem is that there are so many competitors that it is not easy to find a job without networking.
In fact, it is a problem even if you find
Because while in the military, my brain was completely formatted. I forgot everything I learned in elementary, middle and high school, so I have to take tutoring.
However, Korea University is the most prestigious university in Korea. Regardless of his teaching skills, he eats the signboard. In Korea, signage is more important than skill.
Wouldn’t it be okay to just find a seat?
[Well. Because this is also a recession these days.]“Take a look. I’ll ask you a favor.”
[Okay. Let’s have a drink to commemorate the discharge soon.]“okay.”
When I finished the call, I sighed.
“Sigh.”
Do I have to work part-time at a convenience store or PC room until I find a tutoring position?
I looked at my phone and saw dozens of missed calls. All are one number.
Oh Taek-gyu, whom I first met when I was in middle school, was my best friend. Since their parents are working, they often come to my house to play or sleep.
What did this bastard call so many times?
Tirling!
I called.
“Hey, Taek-gyu Oh.”
Taek-gyu said as if he was waiting.
[I’m contacting you now. Have you been discharged?]“How did you know this number?”
[My mother told me.]“okay?”
It seems that the mother opened the cell phone and gave Taek-gyu the number.
[There is a bigger problem now than that.]“·················ogue.”
The voice over the receiver was serious.
The moment I heard it, I knew something had happened.
Is it bad?
“What’s going on?”
[Did you know that I received Bantcoin in the past?]In middle school, Taek-gyu quit the popular MMORPG and disposed of his characters, equipment, and gold.
However, the online game item trading site I used to use suddenly started to regulate transactions, and to avoid the regulation, some users traded using virtual currency that is only circulated on the Internet.
That’s Bantcoin.
According to Taek-gyu’s explanation, there is no management body in BANTCOIN. Issuance and transactions are done in a peer-to-peer manner through the network, and it is said that a specific individual or group cannot control it.
Bantcoin is divisible to 9 decimal places, and is usually expressed in BNT.
He’s been explained a few times, but it’s not an easy concept to understand.
Anyway, at that time, the Vantcoin Taek-gyu received was 11,000 BNT. At that time, 10,000 BNT was $90, so it was a little over 100,000 won.
However, by the time he was in high school, the value of the BANT coin suddenly soared.
100BNT was close to $500, and Vantcoin, which was only 100,000 won, became 50 million won!
Thinking it was a windfall, Taek-gyu tried to get 50 million won by selling Vantcoin. But there was one problem.
Ironically, you have lost the encryption key to access your Bantcoin account!
To use an analogy, it is like putting money in a bank and losing your account number and password. In the case of a bank, you can find an account with just your name and social security number, but you can’t find anything without an encryption key in Vantcoin.
‘Ahh! My 50 million won! My money!’
He lamented that it was like throwing the winning lottery ticket in the trash, and cried for days. And since then, he has completely lost interest in the Bantecoin.
“Why is the guy who started the game talking about it all of a sudden even if you bring out the ‘half’ character of Bantcoin?”
[Listen, don’t be surprised.]“What?”
[I found the encryption key.]“······What?”
An explanation came to me, perplexed.
A few days ago, while cleaning the figure cabinet, he found a USB that had fallen behind him. I thought I might have heard important data, so I dusted it off and plugged it into the computer, and it was found that there was an encryption key for the Bantcoin account in it.
I was surprised.
“Really? Isn’t it Gura?”
[Because it’s real.]So, isn’t that great?
It’s not enough to cheer it on because it’s good. However, Taek-gyu seemed to be more shocked than happy.
“What is the price of Bantcoin right now? Isn’t it higher than that time?”
[It was $1,120 as of yesterday.]For 1,120 dollars, it is about 1.23 million won.
“If 100 BNT is $1,120, it has more than doubled compared to before. It was 50 million won back then… Huh! So 1 billion?”(Read more @ wuxiax.com)
Taek-gyu said to me, surprised.
[It’s 1 BNT.]“Huh?”
[Not 100 BNT, but 1 BNT is $1120.]“·················ogue.”
I’m at a loss for words.
After a while, he came to his senses and said:
“Don’t be fooled.”
[If you don’t believe it, I’ll send it to you, see it with your own eyes.]Tiling!
I took my phone out of my ear and checked the chat. The price of BANTCOIN was shown along with a graph that drew an upward curve.
As of yesterday’s date, it was exactly $1122.
I put the phone to my ear again.
“Because you had 11,000 BNT…….”
As I was doing the calculations, I opened my mouth wide.
“Wait, maybe… 13.5 billion?”
[I don’t even know if this is a dream or real time. It is now registered on the exchange.]That was the moment.
Something appeared in front of me, like a hologram.
“Mountain Hill Bankruptcy”
“·················ogue.”
Why do you see this? What is Mountain Hill?
I asked urgently, just in case.
“Where is the exchange?”
[Huh?]“Where are you? Say it quickly!”
The answer came.
[It’s called Mountain Hill.]what?
I shouted at him.
“Sell it now!”
