verily --what an honor 'twas to have the story judged alongside all the others in this contest --reading some of the other great works --the speculative/science fiction --mystery --and others that elude genre --i felt my work may have been in the wrong contest --also seeing as it is not a bitcoin story i feel doubly honored that the judges would say such nice things about it

--hopefully the sagas valorized the frontier outlaw not to admonish his rancour --drunkenness or violence --but because in him (and her) lives the spirit of the american frontier --the spirit that inspires the adventure to do what we believe is right even at the cost of transgressing those (cronies) occupying conventional seats of power --a spirit i believe to be alive in the bitcoiners of today

BIG THANK YOU TO @siggy47 @TotallyHumanWriter and @Scoresby for organizing this contest and the countless other writers that made it so interesting --lastly thank you to my mammy for raising me good and ....