Chapter 900 High-speed Rail Line 2
Entering April, this round of BitC’s bull market has officially begun.
In fact, BitC’s rise has already started since its first halving last year. BitC conducted its first halving on November 28 last year.
Before this halving, the price of BitC was less than $1, and now it has risen to more than $35. If the original trajectory of time and space is followed, the highest price in April will exceed $140, and the first of this bull market Phase C price will be over $260…
Of course, the current price of BitC is over $70,000, and there is still huge room for growth.
When he got here, Barron remembered something he heard from his friends in his previous life——
When he went to his friend's house, he mentioned that the price of BitC at that time had exceeded 60,000 US dollars. Then his friend suddenly said: "I bought a lot of BitC on Taobao many years ago. It was very cheap at that time..."
Hearing this, he suddenly became excited:
"Really or not, then you are rich! How much did you buy?"
"Uh...just one box."
Just when he was confused, he saw his friend dig out a box from under the bed in the bedroom, and he suddenly felt that things were not that simple...
Sure enough, after my friend opened the box, he saw it was full of "gold coins" printed on it...
Of course, this is just a joke.
But having said that, let alone 2013, even more than ten years later, even among young people who have not been particularly exposed to this, I am afraid they still know very little about BitC, and many people do not understand this. What is it?
At the same time, the promotion of USDA at this time is not yet smooth - although some exchanges invested by Mt. Gox and Matrix Capital and Distributed Foundation have changed the pricing method of BitC and other coins to BitC/USDA trading pair, but because BitC’s current trading scale is not large, including its main markets the United States and China, there are not many users who directly purchase USDA.
After all, in the American market, you can directly use U.S. dollars to make purchases, without the need for an additional USDA conversion procedure.
As for the Huaxia market, you must know that because the supervision is not strict yet, you can now directly use Hua coins to purchase on the exchanges there...
But Anchorage is not in a hurry, because it will not be until the end of this year, after the People's Bank of China and five other ministries and commissions issued a document requiring the prevention of BitC risks, that the direct use of Chinese currency to purchase BitC will be blocked, and then the scope of use of USDA will be expanded.
At least now in some countries where the US dollar is not the official currency, USDA is still quite popular.
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After entering April, the decline in international gold prices began to accelerate.
In September last year, the international gold price reached a historical high, exceeding US$1,900 per ounce. At the beginning of this year, although the international gold price fell below US$1,700 per ounce, it still fluctuated overall in the past three months. Situational.
But after entering April, the international gold price began to fall below 1,600 US dollars per ounce. By mid-April, its price had a direct tendency to fall below 1,300 US dollars per ounce.
As Daisy and Barron analyzed before, the global economy began to recover in the first quarter of this year, which made investors expect that the United States will reduce its quantitative easing policy and the Federal Reserve will reduce its debt scale. In addition, previous investment in gold futures Funds have the idea of leaving the market at a profit. These many factors have led to this wave of decline in international gold prices.
For the funds under the DS Group, because they had already held short orders in gold futures as early as last year, the current drop in gold prices has also made their profits very considerable.
At this time, Barron had returned to London with Bonnie. As for the other women, because they did not need to devote themselves to work like Bonnie, most of them still stayed on Lanai with their children. After returning to London, Barron met with Prime Minister Cameron. The main content of their discussion this time was the plan for Britain's second high-speed rail line.
Britain's first high-speed railway, High Speed Rail Line 1 (HS1), connects St. Pancras Station to the British end of the Channel Tunnel, with a total length of 109 kilometers. It makes London and Paris only two hours apart.
It was also the construction of High Speed Rail Line 1 that led to the reconstruction of St Pancras Station - these were mentioned when Barron invested in Argent Real Estate Group and carried out the King's Cross renewal plan.
The British government approved the second high-speed railway in the UK, namely High Speed Rail Line 2 (HS2), last year, on January 8, 2012.
At that time, it was expected that the first phase investment of high-speed rail line 2 would reach 32 billion pounds. Construction was expected to start in 2016 and the entire line would be put into operation in 2033.
As for why it took four years for such a high-speed railway to start construction, this is due to Britain's "institutional problems."
In fact, British people have long been unable to bear the fact that British trains are delayed if there is a little wind and are canceled immediately if it rains! Many people are looking forward to this project.
However, as soon as this project came out, Britain was divided into two groups, supporting and opposing groups, and they were quarreling with each other.
Supporters believe that building high-speed rail can create thousands of jobs and stimulate economic growth.
After the high-speed rail is completed, it will greatly reduce transportation time, increase transportation capacity, and make commuting between cities more convenient.
This can also balance the economic conditions of the south and the north, which is a very beneficial thing.
According to the plan, Britain's High-speed Railway Line 2 consists of three sections of railway lines, namely the London-Birmingham High-speed Railway, the Birmingham-Manchester High-speed Railway, and the Birmingham-Leeds High-speed Railway, with a total length of approximately 500 kilometers.
In the design, Line 2 high-speed trains will run at 220-225 miles per hour (about 360 kilometers). When completed, the travel time between London and Birmingham will be shortened from about 1 and a half hours to 49 minutes; compared with Manchester or Leeds The time between flights is reduced to 80 minutes, and the time between major cities in Scotland is reduced by approximately 3 and a half hours.
By connecting with High Speed Rail No. 1, the European high speed rail network can be extended to the hinterland of Britain.
The opposition says the HS2 project should never have started.
High-speed rail lines will occupy a lot of farmland, which some people believe will damage farmland and the natural environment.
Some people are also worried that the construction of high-speed rail will dig up the remains of many ancestors, destroy the tombs, and subject the deceased to degrading treatment.
After all, according to British or European "tradition", strict environmental assessment and environmental protection standards are usually implemented when launching large-scale projects.
Britain is a country that implements private land ownership. If the government wants to build a high-speed rail, the first problem is to purchase land from the landowners. The land required to build a railway far exceeds the area required to lay rails, and large tracts of land are also required to store construction materials and machinery.
Some British people and environmental groups are worried that building HS2 will damage the environment and bring huge costs. In addition to the ancient pear trees in Warwickshire, HS2 will pass through approximately 350 animal habitats, 67 ancient woodlands, and 30 rivers. , 24 scientific research stations and hundreds of ecologically sensitive areas, HS2 will have an impact on many protected species such as the great crested salamander.
Therefore, as of now, more than 70 groups in the UK have protested against this.
They believe that instead of spending huge sums of money, it is better to improve the existing railway system, and that building high-speed railways will damage the environment and beautiful natural landscapes...
