Baek Seung-tae came out to work at dawn, took only his employee ID, and immediately took a taxi to Incheon Airport.
The fact of departure had to be known as late as possible.
That way, I was able to steal the money to be deposited into the fake account and buy time until I fled abroad.
However, Baek Seung-tae’s cunning tricks were all useless, only he was unaware of them.
“Baek Seung-tae, you bastard. No matter how hard you try, it’s not in my palm.”
Park Min-gyo has been monitoring the dynamics of Baek Seung-tae in real time since he left the company.
I was suspicious of him from the beginning, so I followed him, and because of that, I was aware of where he went in Hong Kong and what he was up to.
This 7 billion won order was also a bait thrown at Baek Seung-tae.
KN Chemical embezzlement duo.
The main culprit was a fake corporation and took company money and fled abroad, while the accomplice was arrested while living a dissolute life in Korea.
This was the scenario Park Min-gyo came up with, and so far things have been going according to his plan.
“Director Na, by the way, did you say Baek Seung-tae went to Shenzhen instead of Hong Kong?”
“That’s right. We will be arriving at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in the next 30 minutes.”
“Why is it propaganda? I thought you were going to Hong Kong. Did you notice that we have someone on our side at the airport?”
“It can’t be. If they had known it was a trap, they would not have attempted to leave the country.”
It’s true, but I couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.
“So what did you decide to do?”
“We sent a team waiting in Hong Kong to Shenzhen airport. If you hurry, you can arrive before immigration is over.”
“Take good care of it. If you miss it, you will get tired.”
“All right.”
Park Min-gyo looked at the screen of his phone again and turned his head to the side as if he remembered something.
“Oh, and what about the last time Shin Woo-hyuk asked me to follow you?”
“I have been observing for over 10 days, but there is no particular movement. After work every day, all I do is stop by an adult arcade in Pangyo to spend time.”
Hearing those words reminded me of the guy from my previous business trip to Las Vegas.
He piled up chips in the slot machine at the entrance of the hotel and pulled the lever like an old man.
It was so pitiful that it made spontaneous ‘tsk tsk’ and clicking sounds.
“Shall we keep watching?”
“That bastard is fine, check if Baek Seung-tae has done anything else in Korea.”
“All right.”
Park Min-gyo spits out what he has to say and turns his gaze back to his phone.
Real-time cryptocurrency prices were floating on his phone screen.
Initially, the intention was to use cryptocurrency only for money laundering. However, after seeing the fun of rising market prices, he fell in love with virtual currency to the extent that he neglected golf.
When Park Min-gyo is looking at his cell phone, Na Jun-seok noticeably rises from his seat.
“I will come back to see you later.”
“no. Sit down for a minute.”
Na Jun-seok sits down again with his hips moving.
“I heard that the head of the department also invested in virtual currency at one time?”
“That’s right.”
“Have you made any money?”
“I touched quite a lot of money until the second half of 2013, but I suffered a big loss last year when the exchange hacking incident broke out.”
Cryptocurrency investors were not aware of the exchange hacking incident last year.
Because it was such a big event that the bitcoin market temporarily collapsed by 1/10.
“At that time, I heard that there was an uproar about the collapse of virtual currency?”
“At that time, I only thought the virtual currency market was over.”
“Tsk tsk tsk, you should look at the forest, not the trees.”
“Which forest are you talking about… … .”
“It means you have to look at the overall big picture of virtual currency. I assure you, the cryptocurrency market will never fail. This is a structure that cannot be ruined.”
Park Min-gyo puts down his cell phone with a high level of pride.
“There will be people like me who come in to launder money, and virtual currency is a very effective means for corporate illegal lobbying and property inheritance.”
“That is correct.”
“It’s because few people know how virtual currency is used these days. When this starts to be used in earnest, the value will grow explosively.”
“Last year, it went up to around $1,000, so I think it’s worth aiming for $2,000.”
“That is ridiculous. I think the real big guys can run up to $10,000 if they come into this game.”
Na Jun-seok was mechanically arguing, but he didn’t actually believe it.
But Park Min-gyo was convinced. If you are a person of the same kind as yourself, you will have no choice but to actively use virtual currency.
“Whoop whoop.”
Park Min-gyo’s eyes shine with greed.
If Bitcoin jumps to $10,000 as he expected, it will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the domestic conglomerates.
* * *
Inside a narrow camping trailer.
The narrow interior and the strong smell of cosmetics, some of them actively cling to it and even flirt with it.
I’m also a man, so if it was normal, I might have responded to their request and spent time together.
But now, the exhibition situation ahead of the match.
As much as my life depended on this, I summoned them with the utmost sincerity.
“As I said before, I intend to crash the price of Bitcoin.”
Maybe it’s because I set the mood, the girls who used to flirt and laugh are also listening seriously.
“The first strategy I came up with is to ignorantly pour out Bitcoin for sale. Since the virtual currency market is not yet large, even a shock in a short period of time can cause the market to plummet.”
Then Nella raised her hand slightly and said.
“I want to know how many bitcoins we have.”
“I can’t give you an exact figure, but I can afford to bring it down by 30% in a short period of time.”
“30%… … You would have to throw 50,000 bitcoins to have that kind of impact.”
I nodded my head to mean yes. Then, the room, which had been quiet for a while, became noisy again.
“Do you have 50,000 bitcoins?”
“oh my god! Woohyuk was rich. Is it like the son of a conglomerate family in the drama?”
“Didn’t I say that I was a company representative, not a conglomerate? Or maybe an alien… … .”
“Do Min-joon?”
“Wow!”
Nella’s screaming that the atmosphere is about to go to the mountain barely calms it down.
“quiet! small talk later First, listen to Woohyuk first.”
Her gaze returns to me. It seems to mean to speak quickly in this gap.
“The second strategy is to spread rumors and fake news in large numbers on social media to confuse the board itself.”
“Instantaneous price collapse. information bomb linkage. It’s a very standard strategy.”
“It is called Jeongseok because it is the most effective.”
Information on non-mainstream assets, such as cryptocurrency, is not covered well in the news.
Therefore, virtual currency investors inevitably had no choice but to rely on uncertain information channels such as SNS.
“As far as I know, I’ve heard that some of you here are experts in manipulating network opinion.”
As soon as my words run out, Jesse clings to the side.
“Did you find me?”
“that… … I would like to know how you work with public opinion.”
“There are 5,000 tweet accounts managed by my bot. If they move in earnest, they can send out 300,000 messages a day.”
“Anything like spam messages can be counterproductive.”
Jesse flicks his fingers left and right.
“Can you stop comparing it to low-level programs like spam bots?”
“Then what is different?”
“My babies communicate with followers by imitating users in each field. Then, when the time comes when a message is needed, it naturally springs into action.”
It seems to be a special bot that usually imitates ordinary people, but when it comes time to work on public opinion, it reveals its true color.
“Is there a cryptocurrency in the field where bots are active?”
“It’s not virtual currency, but one of the main sectors is IT-related.”
“It’s good. That is enough.”
At this time, Nella, who has been listening quietly, interrupts the conversation.
“The market price brought down by rumors will be restored the moment the truth is revealed. What if the other person doesn’t open a cryptocurrency account in the meantime?”
“We have to make it so that we can’t exhaust it without opening it.”
I intend to spread the rumor that Bitcoin owners fear most.
Will Park Min-gyo be able to succeed in ‘Jonber’ after going through a terrible cataclysm and malicious rumors?
* * *
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KN Chemical’s unofficial work time, 9:00 p.m., has arrived. The office lights are turned off one by one, and the sound of employees leaving work creates a commotion.
In the meantime, there was an office that was lit all the way.
It was Park Min-gyo’s private office.
“weird. Why are you doing this? Why?”
Park Min-gyo has been staring at his phone since earlier, repeating the same words countless times like a parrot.
“why? why? You don’t understand. Why does the price of Bitcoin keep going down!”
Since investing in Bitcoin, he has never experienced a drop in the price.
It would be more accurate to say that I never let it fall. Because whenever the market price fell, he forcibly raised the price with additional purchases.
This time, as the price plunged, I tried to defend the price with additional purchases without much worry.
This is because if you block only one swing, the next time you have experienced a phenomenon where the market price rises more than the original price several times.
But this drop was different.
It didn’t end at -10%, but it went beyond -20% in an instant, and now the graph was sinking to the -30% line.
Chick-
Park Min-gyo lights a cigarette with trembling hands. I thought I would try to calm myself down by turning to cigarettes.
“Damn it, it would be less frustrating if I knew the reason for falling.”
Even during that short period of smoking, the price kept going down. It was only a matter of time before it went down to -40%.
‘Don’t be shaken. Bitcoin is the best way to manage black money. As long as it is known to the after world, the value will definitely rise.’
Park Min-gyo turned his phone over and closed his eyes. I was thinking of forcing myself to sleep.
However, I couldn’t fall asleep thinking that billions of people were disappearing in real time.
clap.
He jumped up and picked up the intercom. I didn’t know if I, who was familiar with cryptocurrency, would know something.
-Yes, Mr. What are you doing?
Park Min-gyo squeezes out a voice that seems to be as nonchalant as possible.
“It’s not a big deal, just because the Bitcoin price seems a bit odd.”
– I saw. It went down quite a bit.
“Did you find out what the cause was?”
As if Na Jun-seok had been waiting, he immediately gives an answer.
-It seems to be because of rumors floating around the internet.
“What rumors?”
-As you know, the current Bitcoin was created in its infancy, so aren’t there many problems? First of all, the transaction speed is very slow.
“so?”
-To make up for such a problem, big players gather and proceed with the hard fork of the existing Bitcoin.
Park Min-gyo shouted ‘Quack!’ shouted
“Hey Mr.! What is a hard fork? Please explain in an easy way! easily!”
– In a word, it means that Bitcoin is split into two types, old Bitcoin and new Bitcoin.
The moment he heard that, Park Min-gyo felt the blood rushing to his head.
This is because it was obvious that if Bitcoin was split in two, its value would be cut in half.
‘You have to sell everything. Right Now.’
Park Min-gyo immediately hung up the phone and brought the virtual currency wallet.
In his wallet, 140,000 bitcoins, which he had accumulated so far, were stored.
“hurry. hurry. hurry.”
To cash out your wallet bitcoins, you first had to move them to an exchange. However, due to the nature of Bitcoin, it took about 30 minutes to an hour to transfer.
“Damn it! Why is it taking so long?”
While Min-Kyo Park is stamping her feet, the intercom rings again. He nervously grabbed the phone.
-Executive Director, the hard fork I mentioned earlier. It was suspicious that the information was released overnight, so I looked it up again… … There were some oddities.
“Is it strange? what? Are you saying that the information is false information?”
-There is a possibility of that. The big players mentioned in the rumors are vehemently denying the hard fork.
Park Min-gyo glances at her phone. The Bitcoins in the wallet were already in the middle of being transferred to the exchange.
– How about watching the situation for now?
“after… … I’ll find out soon.”
Park Min-gyo, who hung up the phone, touched the transmission cancel button.
Of course, he thought the bitcoin transfer would be canceled, but a strange message pops up in front of him.
[The wrong approach.]
I hope it can be canceled, or it won’t. What is wrong access?
I tried canceling again, but the result was the same.
[The wrong approach.]
“Why is this?”
Park Min-gyo has no choice but to completely close the wallet app and turn it back on.
But this time, I couldn’t even access the wallet app at all, and the message from before came to mind.
[The wrong approach.]
[The wrong approach.]
[The wrong approach.]
The same message appears while retrying the connection several times.
At this point, Park Min-gyo realized that something was strange.
“I don’t think so. no way. It must be a simple error.”
Even if he said that, at some point the hand holding the phone was shaking.
The word ‘hacking’ was already deep in his head, but he tried to ignore it and repeat the touch.
“It’s a mistake. error right? get rid of it quickly loose. loose. loose. Loosen up, please!”
Then, remembering that I had backed up my virtual currency wallet on my laptop, I hurriedly turned on the laptop.
But even there, there was no reverse.
[The wrong approach.]