At first it was just a record. An immensely large set of hashes and blocks to be sure, but just a ledger of transactions. At least that's what we thought. Seduced by promises of rocket trips to the moon and lambos, we embraced it. We nurtured it. We fed it. And so it grew, block after block in proportion to our greed. Some began to notice strange patterns in the blockchain. The hashes... they had developed a structure. Most of us dismissed the findings, but then an increasing number of c...

At first it was just a record. An immensely large set of hashes and blocks to be sure, but just a ledger of transactions. At least that's what we thought. Seduced by promises of rocket trips to the moon and lambos, we embraced it. We nurtured it. We fed it. And so it grew, block after block in proportion to our greed. Some began to notice strange patterns in the blockchain. The hashes... they had developed a structure. Most of us dismissed the findings, but then an increasing number of c...