Daily life of an American TV drama agent

"No, absolutely not!" Sheldon's little face suddenly turned pale. He once again thought of the horrific experience of being imprisoned and almost urinating in front of a whole room, and he was agitated: "Okay, okay, I'll think about it again." Think of another way.”

"What else can you do? If I remember correctly, Stewart's comic shop was in poor business before the fire. If it weren't for the distance, his business would have been robbed by the First Bookstore."

The First Bookstore is a store next to Hollywood Boulevard. Although it is called a bookstore, it actually focuses on comics. Especially after the recent popularity of Marvel movies, they have specially placed statues of Marvel heroes and other figures at the door to attract customers. , becoming the hottest comic book store in Los Angeles.

Stewart's store had a good business before, but was squeezed by this new No. 1 bookstore and began to decline.

"Then I'm going to spread rumors about the First Bookstore, saying that the toilets in their store are unclean and can cause people to get sexually transmitted diseases." Sheldon looked sinister, and his idea caused several other friends to nod frequently, and everyone nodded again. Together they turned their inquiring eyes to Ron.

Ron was simply defeated by the genius business acumen of these scientists and rolled his eyes: "To be honest, if you are talking about scientific research, such as physics, you are the leaders in the industry. If I am qualified to judge Nobel If you win a prize, I will give each of you a trophy."

Ron looked at the several scientists in front of him. Everyone he glanced at raised their chests proudly. Immediately, Ron's following words knocked down their newly arrogant arrogance:

"However, I don't think you can do business well. Let's not talk about whether your rumors can be effective. Even if they are effective, the other party can at most disinfect the entire store a few times and the impact can be eliminated immediately.

But what about the comic shops for you otakus out there? You may gain a small wave of popularity due to the influence of rumors, but after the other party completes the countermeasures, new customers will return to the No. 1 Bookstore soon, and all your investment will be wasted. So, you really Are you willing to spend all your savings just to own your own comic book store? "

Is the United States a country of excessive consumption? That’s true; the vast majority of Americans have no savings? This is true.

But it should be noted that this is not the state of all Americans. There are always exceptions to everything, especially the scientific gang headed by Sheldon. For them, first of all, work can bring them enough salary.

In fact, Caltech’s salaries are among the best among similar universities.

As for Sheldon and others who are at the top of the scientific food chain, although they cannot become rich with their school salary, they are at least properly middle class.

What’s even more rare is that among these people, except for Rajesh, the spoiled rich second generation of India, their consumption desire is even pitifully low. Basically, as long as they have something to eat and comics to read, they don’t even mind at all. Live with mom, or share a house.

In this regard, even Rajesh, who is as rich as the Indian version of Iron Man, has no special obsession and lives in rented apartments.

Therefore, Sheldon and the others are the rare Americans who have savings.

After listening to Ron's words, the four heads shook together. They didn't understand business just because they didn't understand business, but it didn't mean they were stupid. There was no fool who could do scientific research.

"Guys, are you short of money now?" Ron began to reflect on whether he was too stingy with these cute little guys, which made them want to do business.

Although each person only has a research subsidy of one thousand US dollars per month, and even Ron's monthly allowance for Sheldon's meal is more than this amount, but at least Ron bought them new scientific research equipment to play with?

Those precision instruments are not much cheaper than high-end sports cars.

"NO." "YES." Two nodded and two shook their heads.

Needless to say, one of the people shaking his head must be Raj, but what surprised Ron was that Howard was also shaking his head.

"Howard, Rajesh is spending money lavishly, why are you making fun of him?"

"Uh..." Howard's face turned red and he gritted his teeth at the end: "The main reason is that I want to make more money to improve my family status. You know that with a wife who can make so much money, I want more money every night. How much physical effort does it take?”

Howard's wife, Bernadette, worked directly in Pfizer's drug research and development department after graduating with her doctorate. In addition to her ordinary salary, which was already twice as high as Howard's, she also received drug dividends and scientific research subsidies.

In particular, the drug-mouth dividends directly benefit from the selling prices of drugs developed and marketed by the scientific research department. This is equivalent to the fact that for every drug she develops, as long as it is bought by patients, Bernadette can make a little money from it.

"I can do it for you."

The Indian put his hand on Howard's shoulder, and Howard slapped his hand away: "Get out!"

"Okay, so I can tacitly agree that you all want to make more money?"

Leonard's performance was very Buddhist: "Lack of money is not a problem, but if you can make a little more, who would say no?"

Sheldon was even more indifferent: "YES, although most of the things I want to buy have not been invented yet, if I can have more money, I can buy a few more comics."

"Okay, let Uncle Ron teach you how to make a fortune step by step." Ron smiled mysteriously: "Making money is actually not too difficult. First of all, the first step is to develop your own potential, that is, to make money yourself. Change the things around you into money, such as you, brothers, I see a huge wealth in you, this money is quite huge, at least enough to buy a good car for each of you, except Sheldon~"

"How is it possible?" Everyone exclaimed together.

What Leonard and the others exclaimed was how could they have such a fortune without them knowing about it, and what Sheldon exclaimed was why he didn't have it.

"Everything is possible," Ron looked at the increasingly confused scientists, filled with pride: "Do you need me to give you a little tip?"

"OK, you can just say one keyword."

"One keyword is enough. My keyword is Bitcoin. How about it? Can you think of anything?"

"Wait a minute, I remembered, didn't we dig some Bitcoins a few years ago?" Leonard said in surprise: "I heard that the price of Bitcoins has increased now, Ron, how much do they cost now?"

"I'm not sure about the latest market price, but it should be about US$5,000 each."

"What did you say?!" The four people's eyes widened.

"I said it's almost five thousand dollars each," Ron said calmly, "Brothers, are you ready to make a fortune?"

There is certainly a reason for Ron's calmness, because he knows that although the price of Bitcoin has reached a sky-high price of US$5,000 each, it is actually far from its highest price in history.

Before the Bitcoin crash before Ron crossed over, it had reached a sky-high price of $68,928.9 per coin.

Of course, that was already very later in 2021, and now, it is only 2017.

Although this round of Bitcoin's surge was not as exaggerated as the later one, at its highest point, it reached around US$20,000, but it fell back to US$3,200 not long after.

But now, it is still on the rise.

"We are ready!"

When Ron said this, several scientists breathed quickly. They dug out their own Bitcoins without spending a penny. There were a hundred of them. At the current price, they are almost 500,000 US dollars. Each Bitcoin is worth almost 500,000 US dollars. Individuals can get at least 120,000.

Of course, if Sheldon did not participate in the distribution, they would share more, because Sheldon himself did not participate in mining coins in the first place.

"Now that I think about it, we didn't take you with us." Howard laughed at Sheldon.

Sheldon was unconvinced and said, "Then do you remember what happened next?"

"Your mother called my mother and said we were bullying you."

Ron followed Howard's words and continued to add: "Yes, my mother called me later and asked me to take Sheldon to play with me. Then Sheldon would rather reinstall the computer system at home than go shooting with me. Field, Sheldon, I’m sorry, you don’t have any share of this money.”

"No, I said yes. Sooner or later you will regret your actions one day, so do you know what day today is?"

"We are making a fortune and you have no life at all?" Leonard retorted, then turned around and said very generously: "Don't worry, Ron, I remember you were there at the time, we will leave you a copy of."

"No, you can just split it. I'm not short of the money." Ron waved his hand and refused boldly.

He wasn't pretending to be generous, he really looked down on this small amount of money. He participated in Leonard's coin mining operation just to have some fun.

Ron had known for a long time that Bitcoin would rise sharply, so how could he not be prepared? Although I don’t know the specific day when the bookmakers led by Musk pushed Bitcoin higher, it was also to prevent them from holding too many Bitcoins and affecting the bookmakers’ money.

After all, there is more than one kind of virtual currency that capital can speculate on: Bitcoin. If they cannot get enough chips in Bitcoin, there is no guarantee that they will not turn their attention to another virtual currency that Ron does not know about. If he is not careful, because of his He broke in and lost the wealth he should have obtained. Ron did not hold Bitcoin on a large scale from the beginning.

Instead, he waits for every Bitcoin crash to take advantage of the bottom to buy some low-priced Bitcoins. He doesn't dare to buy too much for fear of affecting the dealer's judgment. Therefore, Ron only has a pitiful 10,000 in total in his hands now. indivual.

"Yeah!" Several people cheered and high-fived.

After receiving such a large amount of windfall, Leonard was at a loss to ask his friends how to spend it: "Guys, have you figured out how to spend such a large sum of money?"

"As a responsible adult, I will use all the money as a time deposit, and then when the time expires, I will use it to buy a tiger as a pet, just like Tyson did." Rajesh said seriously.

"Are you sure you really bought a tiger as a pet, and not for other obscene purposes like you did with Tyson's tiger?" Ron expressed doubts about Raj's specific purpose of buying the tiger.

"I was drunk that time, okay?! I'm an Indian, and we have always had the tradition of raising tigers. How can the things done by Indians be called obscene?"

Next, Raj muttered some obscure words, such as "Indian tradition" and "having relationships with animals is not obscene", which caused everyone to burst into laughter: the apartment was filled with happy air again.

Leonard could only throw the question back to Howard: "What about you? What are you going to do? Are you going to tell Bernadette?"

"I'm not going to tell her that I'm going to buy the coolest sports car, the kind that Ron's cake-selling girl drives."

"Haha, but you have to find those Bitcoins first," Sheldon looked at everyone with his nostrils mockingly, just like Erkang trying to persuade Ziwei to stay: "Let me guess, you don't plan to Let’s go look for it on Howard’s computer?”

"Of course not," Ron shook his head: "In addition to short movies, Howard's computer also has short movies..."

Howard blushed and retorted: "That's all science!"

"Haha, so you prefer Asian science?" Ron sneered: "Most of them use animation to demonstrate the way of human reproduction? And most of them contain ethics or..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Howard was exposed to his face and yelled with shame: "Okay, my computer is full of short movies. Those things are definitely not in my computer. Who are they?"

"I remember that we were mining coins using Leonard's computer. Leonard, do you still have that computer?" Following Ron's words, everyone turned their attention to Leonard.

"Let me think about it, I seemed to have lent that computer to Penny, and then Penny lent it to her ex-boyfriend Zack." Leonard's head turned a little green.

"Huh? You don't have to look hard. I have already stolen all the Bitcoins on your computer. Ask me where they are?" Sheldon felt that he was being ignored and hurriedly jumped out to find his presence.

"What?! How could you do this!"

Everyone was furious, but Ron was the only one who remained indifferent: "Don't listen to him, Sheldon just moved the entire Bitcoin folder on your computer to his USB drive. In fact, it was just something I had expected." Sheldon will get into a temper and make a fake folder. If he is smarter and opens the folder, he will find that it is an album of photos of him wearing women's clothing when he was a child."

Sheldon's eyes widened. He didn't expect that Ron had predicted his actions in advance.

“So where are our Bitcoins?”

"I hid them in Leonard's 'Science' folder, right next to the 'Actors who look like Penny' folder, and by the way, that actor looks a lot like Penny. If It’s not that the breast size is wrong, I almost thought it was really a little video you and Penny recorded.”

Ron looked at Leonard and said jokingly.

"Wow~" Everyone screamed together, and Leonard was so embarrassed that he wanted to dig out a three-bedroom apartment on the ground and get in.