Today, the news that an employee of Weilai used the company's server to mine was hotly searched.
According to Weibo netizens, Zhang Mou, an employee of Weilai Automobile's research and development department, used the company's server resources to dig up virtual currency. This person originally served as the administrator of a cluster server and used his position to facilitate the mining of virtual currency. According to online rumors, WEILAI has notified the employee, but the news has not been officially confirmed by the company.
Nio has notified it?
There is no official response
The reporter noted that for the above rumors, some netizens released screenshots of the company's internal website, saying that Weilai had notified the R & D department employee, and after investigation, the employee began to use the company's server computing power resources to illegally carry out virtual currency Ether digital mining operations and profit from it. During the investigation, Zhang confessed to his violations.
Screenshot of the web transmission processing bulletin
The screenshot of the above-mentioned company's internal website also shows that Weilai employee Zhang Mou was complained about within the company and then investigated. According to the circular, Zhang was suspected of committing the crime of illegally controlling computer information systems. According to public information, a person suspected of committing this crime shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 3 years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined or fined alone; if the circumstances are particularly serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 3 years but not more than seven years and shall also be fined.
According to another rumor, the Weilai employee Zhang Mou was only suspended by the internal notification, and there is no other public official notification response from Weilai. In response, Weilai said that the official release of the news prevails. After the reporter's inquiry, it was also found that as of now, Weilai has not released any official instructions.
virtual mining or profiteering,
There are many desperate people
The Ether (ETH) involved in the incident is a digital token of Ethereum, which is considered "Bitcoin version 2.0". Ethereum, like other digital currencies, can be bought and sold on trading platforms. It is reported that the total market value of Ether is currently more than $400 billion, making it the second largest cryptocurrency in the world after Bitcoin.
Virtual currency "mining" activities, refers to the process of calculating and producing virtual currency through a special computer, that is, a "mining machine", which is a high-energy-consuming project, with large energy consumption and carbon emissions, and low contribution to the national economy. The data shows that the world consumes 134 billion kWh of electricity on the "mining" of virtual currencies. For every Bitcoin "produced", the energy consumed is equivalent to the electricity consumption of a family of three for a year. In addition, the risks derived from the production and trading of virtual currency are becoming more and more prominent, and their blind disorderly development has adversely affected the promotion of high-quality economic and social development and energy conservation and emission reduction.
Therefore, in September 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission and 11 other departments issued a notice to clearly prohibit the addition of new virtual currency "mining" projects, accelerate the orderly withdrawal of existing projects, and then include virtual currency "mining" activities in the elimination industry in January this year. Many provinces have issued policies to severely crack down on virtual currency "mining", under strict supervision, "mining" has been effectively curbed, but some "mining" activities have gone "underground" and are more hidden. Due to its small size and strong concealment, some individual "mining" behaviors still exist.
Coincidentally, Weilai is not the first company to encounter the "mining" storm. According to the judgment documents released earlier by the China Judgment Documents Network, An Mou, a senior engineer of Baidu operation and maintenance, illegally controlled 155 servers of Baidu through compiled scripts from the end of January to the end of May 2018, which were used to mine Bitcoin, Monero, etc., and sold some bitcoins, making a profit of more than 100,000 yuan. As of the eve of the investigation, there were still about 2.94 bitcoins in its account. In the end, An was sentenced to 3 years in prison, confiscated the illegal gains, and fined 11,000 yuan.
Screenshot of the official website of The China Judgment Documents Network
It can be seen that there are not many cases of illegal mining using the company's servers. There are also many self-proclaimed Internet employees on the Internet who broke the news on social platforms, and the use of the company's server to mine "extra money" seems to be a common disease in the industry, involving enterprises including Ali, Zhihu and so on. Internet enterprise technicians use the company's high-end equipment and servers to illegally make profits, and "mining" does not even require the cost of graphics cards and electricity bills.
Key executive Zhang Jianyong will leave in the near future
The company's ranking of car deliveries continues to decline
The news that disappointed Weilai CEO Li Bin today may not be only the "mining" of employees. According to rumors, Zhang Jianyong, a core executive of NIO's autonomous driving business, will leave in the near future.
Zhang Jianyong, a Ph.D. graduate of Tsinghua University majoring in automotive engineering, worked at SAIC (600104) to develop forward-looking technologies such as autonomous driving, and joined NIO in 2015 as one of the earlier employees of NIO. As a veteran employee of NIO's autonomous driving research and development field, Zhang Jianyong witnessed the construction process of NIO's autonomous driving R&D system from 0 to 1.
Nio's autonomous driving business has four teams, namely the hardware team led by Vice President Bai Jian, the operating system and data security team headed by Vice President Wang Qiyan, the algorithm team headed by Ren Shaoqing, and the system engineering team headed by Zhang Jianyong.
Until 2019, Zhang Jianyong was still serving as the director of autonomous driving of NIO, and it was reported that after WEILAI restarted the self-research of autopilot L4 in December 2020, Zhang Jianyong was internally promoted to assistant vice president of autonomous driving. Until the news of his departure, he reported directly to Chairman and CEO Li Bin.
It is understood that the automatic driving system team under the management of Zhang Jianyong has a scale of nearly 400 people, and after its departure, it will also trigger the re-integration of the entire autonomous driving team of Weilai. Not long ago, Huang Xin, the former director of xiaopeng Automobile's autonomous driving products, has joined Weilai and will report directly to Li Bin. During his tenure as the director of xiaopeng automobile's autonomous driving products, Huang Xin promoted the landing of xiaopeng NGP and memory parking projects, which can be said to have a certain degree of connection with Zhang Jianyong's work, but it is not clear whether Huang Xin will replace Zhang Jianyong's post in the future.
At the critical moment when Weilai's automatic driving system is about to land, the news that relevant executives are about to leave and employees are taking advantage of their positions to enrich their own pockets has come out one after another, and it is not known whether it will have a certain impact on the sales of Weilai Automobile.
After experiencing the first quarter of 2021 and 2022, WEILAI Automobile has changed from the "bellwether" of the new car-making forces before it to the 5th new energy vehicle company in terms of delivery, and has been surpassed by Xiaopeng Automobile, Ideal Automobile, Nezha Automobile, and Zero-run Automobile.
On March 25 this year, Li Bin predicted that WEILAI's goal is to break even by the fourth quarter of 2023, hoping to achieve full-year profitability in 2024. However, as far as the net loss of 4 billion yuan in 2021 is concerned, Weilai is still a long way from these two goals.
Reading Chuang / Shenzhen Business Daily reporter Chen Linlin
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