In recent years, Thunderbolt has been in transition. In addition to the existing download business, Xunlei has been moving towards shared computing, and the management team has also been updated. Just the day before yesterday, take up the post of thunder new CEO Chen Lei in March more than, accepted a reporter interview. He reflected on the development history of Xunlei, and disclosed the new plan of Xunlei: Shared computing & All in Blockchain technology, Xunlei will increase investment in blockchain technology, in order to explore the application of cloud computing and blockchain technology integration.
Reflection: Thunderbolt decided to ALL IN blockchain
In recent years, Thunder has been in transition. CEO Chen Lei admitted that thunderbolt took many detours. Now, after thinking and summarizing, he believes that the transformation needs to adhere to two points: one is to focus on one thing to break through, and the other is not to forget what you are good at.
Chen Lei reflection said, “Thunderbolt why from 09, 10 years of peak, not very smoothly continue to go forward at high speed? In fact, we may have made a wrong choice in business model, that is, Xunlei, as the largest content distribution platform in China, did not cooperate with copyright owners. You choose the wrong business model, and the path becomes narrower.”
After taking a deroute and thinking clearly, The management team of Thunderbolt believes that the essence of Thunderbolt is a P2P technology started, decentralized Internet company, from the genetic point of view, thunderbolt do shared computing is more likely to succeed than others, and finally decided to ALL IN blockchain.
Transformation: Increase investment in blockchain technology
A few days ago, Xunlei also announced that it will increase its investment in blockchain technology, and launched a native digital asset based on blockchain technology under the shared computing ecosystem — PlayerCloud. To put it simply, as a user, you can choose to share limited bandwidth space and get access to other native digital assets, which can then buy Xunlei’s services, or buy other users’ shared resources and buy more encrypted private services.
As the latest generation of C-terminal products of Xunlei sharing computer, While providing private cloud disk services to individual users, PlayerCloud will also encourage everyone to participate in the sharing of bandwidth, storage and computing resources through the playerreward plan.
In Chen Lei’s opinion, blockchain technology is in the same era as the early Internet. Everyone recognizes that blockchain technology is the main development direction in the future. At the same time, there are more and more applications in the B2B field, but there are very few c-end applications. The Internet has reached an inflection point in the application of 2C technology. Therefore, “C-end application is the core driving force of the development of blockchain technology,” Chen Lei proposed: Xunlei to seriously do blockchain application, and will certainly bring in c-end users.
CEO Chen lei:Let China’s blockchain C-end lead the world for twenty years
“In the 1990s, almost all c-terminal applications were first created in the United States, which laid the groundwork for two decades of American domination of the world’s Internet. Is there an opportunity today, with blockchain technology, to change that reality? Let the C-side application be first produced in China, and let China lead the world in blockchain technology for two decades.” Chen lei said.
For Xunlei’s investment, Chen Lei is the following explanation: First, block chain through a virtual asset media, can solve the problem of ultra-small fast payment. Second, blockchain smart contracts provide a fast and reliable settlement system. Through smart contracts, Xunlei can ensure that the sharing of resources between users is effective, definite and paid. More than that, blockchain can be open and transparent. All of xunlei’s data is published on the blockchain, which makes it open and transparent, making it easier for the state to regulate and for copyright holders to trace back.
At the same time, Chen Lei also believes that Thunderbolt blockchain has the opportunity to do big, it is the global future innovation of the tuyere, thunderbolt blockchain is both from their own genes and standing in the tuyere.
Blockchain technology landing:“Application of Forced Technology”
Chen Lei once told reporters that there are two main aspects to the implementation of blockchain.
The first is technical. Blockchain is a relatively early technology, and there are still many core issues that have not been fully solved. However, Chen Lei believes that the development of technology is inseparable from application. In fact, many technologies are generated from application level. Chen lei believes that although the xunlei team will encounter many challenges in blockchain application, it will have the leading technology in the process of constantly overcoming these challenges.
At the same time, Chen Lei introduced to reporters that another direction that needs to be implemented by blockchain is that it actually changes the nature of the business structure, which requires the whole social business structure to change to adapt to new rules. This process is slow and full of resistance. Chen Lei believes that when things change the business structure of the society, there will be two different reactions. One is to embrace it positively; One reaction is to stick to the status quo, which will form internal resistance to the implementation of blockchain.
But According to Chen Lei, blockchain, like the Internet, will achieve subversive effects sooner or later. The development of technology and application to a certain stage will make some enterprises go to the point of no change, so enterprises should actively embrace change. He also believes that there are risks in stimulating business structure change, so Xunlei should embrace change on the one hand, on the other hand, be careful, steady development. Only in this way can the landing application of blockchain be both prosperous and stable.
With the implementation of more and more blockchain applications, in the continuous exploration of startups and listed companies, perhaps as Chen Lei said, “China’s blockchain technology leading the world for 20 years” is slowly becoming a reality.
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