A documentary series about bitcoin lovers girls, trying to live in China for 21 days, only 0.21 BTC, has been broadcast in China's Netflix, iQiyi. The name is translated directly to the girl who suffers from the disease, He Youbing, who only needs to obtain food, housing and other basic necessities through bitcoin transactions on his mobile phone without carrying anything.
Through daily video logs like documentaries, Bing is filming and asking different commercial vendors whether to accept bitcoin coin. These suppliers, from small small restaurants to employees in large chain stores such as Uniqlo, expressed their preconceived notion of bitcoin and cryptocurrency or a lack of perception. Similar to the United States, people's attitudes range from ignorance and distrust to welcome. Looking at the different Chinese views on Bitcoin is an eye-opener.
At the current exchange rate, the 0.21 bitcoin value is about $1,369, which may not seem much in the United States. However, in China, such a quantity can support a few days or even weeks of life. But would this be the case if the money was bitcoin? Obviously not.
On the first day of the challenge, You Bing came to Beijing, the capital of the country, where the ban on encryption was advertised a while ago. She tried to enter the amusement park by paying an entrance fee of 2 yuan or 0.29 dollars, but failed because the park did not accept bitcoin.
Then she tried to buy food from several fast food restaurants, but none of them accepted bitcoin payments. At the end of the first day, You Bing ate four packs of ketchup and food samples from a supermarket and slept in a 24-hour McDonald's store.
The next day, she still couldn't find food sellers who accepted bitcoin and survived by eating trees and the rest of the burgers at McDonald's. When she spent another night at McDonald's, she eventually got a stomachache and threw away what she had eaten.
On the third day, the filmmaker sent her to the hospital because she was very weak a few days ago because she could not eat properly. The success of the challenge caused some concern, and some supporters reached out to the filmmakers, brought some food, and then paid by You Bing in Bitcoin. She spent the night in the art gallery.
At this point, You Bing's story has spread, people try to contact her through WeChat, and provide BTC to provide her with legal exchange support. As filmmakers think the challenge is too easy, they change the rules. The new rules require You Bing to trade offline and exchange bitcoin with real-life people. So the bitcoin market is accepted by most of the people.
On the sixth day, the location was changed to Shenzhen due to a major incident in the capital. So far, six support groups have been created on WeChat, each with 500 members, including Bitcoin believers, real estate agents and advertising salesmen.
In the next few days, You Bing used Bitcoin to buy a face from one of WeChat's supporters and managed to find a restaurant that accepts Bitcoin. She was able to exchange Uniqlo clothes in Bitcoin and pay her to book the hotel in Bitcoin.
You Bing has gained confidence because she has found a strategy to find someone who can exchange bitcoin for what she needs. Although the number of successful transactions is still small on a daily basis, the number of people who provide communication has increased from 12 to more than one hundred per day.
This is a real bitcoin news, which shows that the encryption community should continue to consume more widely.