Mid-to-late 21st Century, Earth To describe them as programmable money would not do them justice. The early ones, inert lines of self-executing instructions, were burned at the stake for yield, validation, storage. Bonfires of coins were lit for the vanity of investors and collectors alike. At first, the "Carbons" did the heavy lifting, authoring investment vehicles which rode the rails coded by the invisible hands of the market. Evolution was nanofast, however. Later, the "Contracts" evolved...
