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Comment by moffkalast

1 year ago

The fact that practically all funding most of the world runs on these days is just a bunch of variables in some shitty program never stops being weird to think about. All it takes to create or destroy trillions is one (or maybe a few) CPU ops.

It really stretches the belief into fiat money to the absolute limit.

Dade: This is every financial transaction Ellingson conducts, yeah? From million dollar deals to the ten bucks some guy pays for gas.

Kate: The worm eats a few cents from each transaction.

Dade: And no one's caught it because the money isn't really gone. It's just data being shifted around.