An experimental new Internet-based form of money is created that anyone can generate at home; people build frightening firetrap computers full of video cards, putting out so much heat that one operator is hospitalised with heatstroke and brain damage.

A young physics student starts a revolutionary new marketplace immune to State coercion; he ends up ordering hits on people because they might threaten his great experiment, and is jailed for life without parole.

Fully automated contractual systems are proposed to make business and the law work better; the contracts people actually write are unregulated penny stock offerings whose fine print literally states that you are buying nothing of any value.

The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts $150 million on the promise that it will embody “the steadfast iron will of unstoppable code”; upon release it is immediately hacked, and $50 million is stolen.

一种实验性的新的基于互联网的货币形式被创造出来，任何人都可以在家里产生；人们建造了充满视频卡的可怕的防火电脑，放出了如此多的热量，一名操作员因中暑和脑损伤而住院。
一个年轻的物理系学生开创了一个不受国家胁迫的革命性新市场；他最后下令殴打他人，因为他们可能威胁到他的伟大实验，并被终身监禁，没有假释。
建议采用全自动合同系统，使商业和法律更好地运作；实际上，人们所写的合同是不受监管的低价股票发行，其细则字面上说，你没有购买任何有价值的东西。
史上最大规模的众筹吸引了1.5亿美元，承诺将体现“不可阻挡的代码的坚定钢铁意志”；一旦发布，它立即被黑客入侵，5000万美元被盗。