Xianyu, a platform for trading idle items. We usually don't associate Xianyu with cryptocurrency until one day, this product popped up on my Xianyu recommendation page:
For crypto players, we are no strangers to the peripherals that trading platforms or various project teams give out from time to time to maintain customer relations and public relations. On X, we often see KOLs posting about peripherals. But, I really never thought these peripherals would appear on Xianyu.
At the same time, I became more curious—what other crypto-related products are available on Xianyu?
Peripherals
Searching the names of major trading platforms on Xianyu, the most numerous items are definitely the peripherals once given out by these trading platforms. The types of these peripheral products are diverse, with clothing and hats being the most common, followed by backpacks, water bottles, and suitcases. As essential tools for traders, keyboard and mouse sets can firmly occupy a seat right after the giants mentioned above.
But the creativity and thought of the trading platforms go far beyond that. We have selected some uniquely designed peripheral gifts from various major trading platforms.
Leisure and entertainment, the Guandan set from Binance:
Life ambiance, the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Lamp from OKX:
Physical exercise, the Messi co-branded football from Bitget:
Cultural and artistic creations, the ceramic ornament from Gate:
Metaphysical Feng Shui, the Evergreen Treasure Basin for Bull Market from HTX:
Writing this, I'm wondering why there isn't a KOL on X who has made a video with the theme "A Day with a Trading Platform," incorporating so many of these rich peripherals...
Finally, based on the search results on Xianyu, the piece that deserves the finale is this bottle of Moutai from Binance:
Furthermore, the shrewdest seller has to be the one below. If my understanding is correct, "40% fee reduction" should be related to rebates. If this gift set priced at 520 yuan is actually sold, doubt no more, this shopkeeper really loves you...
Mining Rigs
You read that right, you can really buy Bitcoin mining rigs on Xianyu. However, you need to tweak the keyword a bit, change it to "Lotto Miner".
The so-called "Lotto Miner" refers to small, low-power, standalone Bitcoin mining devices. Taking the Lucky Miner priced at 1020 yuan with a hashrate of 4.2 TH/s in the image above as an example, the current Bitcoin network hashrate is approximately 979 EH/s. Based on the hashrate proportion, the theoretical probability of "winning the lottery" (successfully mining a Bitcoin block alone) is 0.000000429%.
In comparison, spending 2 yuan to buy a Welfare Lottery Double Color Ball ticket gives a theoretical probability of winning the jackpot of about 0.0000056428%. This means the lottery miner's winning rate is even less than one-tenth of the Double Color Ball's.
However, both can provide you with spiritual value, for the security and decentralization of the Bitcoin network, or for welfare causes. And, although this probability is extremely low, since the beginning of 2024, we have still seen several cases worldwide where a lotto miner took home a Bitcoin block reward.
Solana Phone
Actually, at the end of 2023, the first-generation Solana phone "Saga" was once popular on Xianyu. Because at that time, this phone came with a 30 million $BONK airdrop. As the price of $BONK rose, the value of this airdrop far exceeded the phone's selling price, and it also added the expectation of being a "golden shovel".
This time, we are two years later, and what's on Xianyu is already the second-generation Solana phone "Seeker". Moreover, the Solana phone itself is about to issue a token; $SKR will TGE on January 21st. It's important to note that this time might be the exact opposite of the first generation. The first generation required the phone to be unactivated to receive $BONK, while the second generation requires it to be activated for $SKR, with allocation determined based on the usage of phone ecosystem applications. Buying the second generation now only ensures you can participate in Season 2 of the $SKR airdrop.
Similar to the first generation, the Solana phone is a big hassle for Chinese people, from receiving it to using it. It is produced in Shenzhen but is destined to travel around the world before being handed to you by a proxy receiver. When you finally get it, you will find that if you don't know how to set up a VPN, you will be stuck forever on the Wi-Fi setup screen during boot.
So, you might need to find a transit station for your Solana phone before bringing it home:
You might also need to find a way to turn it on:
It's really not easy.
Private Key/Mnemonic Phrase Collision Tools
No need to worry. If such black technology existed, the crypto world would have been destroyed like a global nuclear war, and people in the circle wouldn't occasionally remember the threat from future quantum computers.
Selling hopes that are too unrealistic can be called a scam. So, can selling a probability similar to picking out a specific atom that meets certain conditions from the vast universe be considered a scam? I'm not sure either. Anyway, it's pretty much the same principle as nuclear weapons not being available to ordinary folks...
Humanity's development of Xianyu is really less than 1%.
