My last sauna read was the third chapter from 21 Futures, titled Behemoth.
The setting is an O'Neil Cylinder in deep space. We follow two kids who are eagerly racing off to see an enormous ship, The Behemoth, from Earth. It has real Earthers on it! The kids seldom if ever see people from Earth and are taken by the short stature and funny garb of these gravitationally stunted people.
They go check out a shop and are disappointed that their allowance of 500 msats is not enough to buy any of the cool stuff from Earth, like books with real paper. The annoyed shop keeper directs them towards a discount bin of crap he hasn't been able to unload. They can't even afford most of the junk but have fun dinking around with the old tech.
Eventually, there's a chase related to the kids discovering an ancient storage device with 0.25 BTC on it. To say that's generational wealth is a vast understatement. This is like own your own space station wealth in the distant future.
I loved this idea and the setting. I'm a huge nerd for space colonization stuff. I hadn't really thought about how all these BTC storage devices might turn into the buried treasure of the future, but it's a very romantic idea.
This one sounds pretty fun! I may have to check it out. (I do wonder how you spend btc if you are in deep space...)
These reviews are great. Keep 'em coming.
Me too. I think it's reasonable that these kids wouldn't have known, though. Perhaps some sort of instantaneous communications technology based on quantum entanglement.
that seems to have been a theme in the last story you reviewed too?
I'm glad this story was realistic and showed that bitcoin didn't necessary solve inequality!
Frontiers will always be expensive.
I don’t think this was a theme of the previous story, I just made a remark to Den about this one before I got around to writing this post.