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Anyone else reminded of the The Laundry Files series by Charles Stross? Am now expecting ICOs for occult based startups . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_L

• api 9y ago
  The Great Old Ones could just have their own ICO.
  • Crespyl 9y ago
    The other day on HN I saw a comment that described Bitcoin/proof-of-work cryptocurrencies as being "created by an act of ritual sacrifice" (of electricity/compute power). I recon there's grounds for some amusing short stories in there.
    • IntronExon 9y ago
      It would certainly explain why nobody has found Satoshi! He was just a tool of Cthulhu and his cultists to increase the rate of dissipation. At some critical juncture the total entropy of the system will be sufficient to allow invasion of our reality by tentacular horrors. Maybe...
      • api 9y ago
        Maybe SHA-256 itself encodes a complex ritual for summoning the old ones. Bitcoin ASICs are effectively performing this ritual billions upon billions of times per second, gradually drawing the Old Ones closer and closer...
        • mcguire 9y ago
          Towers of Hanoi, anyone?
  • zipwitch 9y ago
    Install Cthulhoid Overlord?
    • Iconiq 9y ago
      Sudo install....