CrypTon

*"CrypTon. Even We Don't Know How It Works!"*

In 2031, America and most of the European Union had undervalued currency from the deaths of several larger companies due to the Zalim plague. A dollar today is 2000% more of the value in 2031. CrypTon, a cryptocurrency founded in Plzen, developed a chip that uses RFID, thumbprint, and facial recognition for secure payments and ease of payment. Lots of money was invested in CrypTon, both from consumers and large investment companies. Before long, major stores and businesses began using CrypTon to use for transactions and revenue. During its big boom, CrypTon would heavily invest in the JUPITER System, which primarily serves as a CrypTon distribution network and an entire internet infrastructure.

The exact limit of CrypTon is solely dependent on the size of its userbase, thereby increasing its price. The price has stagnated since nearly everyone is using it, and new people only ebb the price in the millionth of a credit.

### CrypTon Currency Rate

Crypton stacks as follows:

* 1 Credit = .0001 CrypTon Blok
* 1 Stak = .001 CrypTon Blok, 100 Credits
* 1 Brik = .01 CrypTon Blok. 1,000 Credits
* 1 Blok = 5,000 Credits, 10 Briks, 50 Staks

However, because the value of the USD has fallen, CrypTon has to be inflated to match USD. .32 credits are needed to account for a dollar. The initial price is doubled to account for the needed value to make up for it ($50 today would need $100 to make up for it, therefore the value has been lowered in order to make the initial conversions easier) The conversion tax rate is currently 3.25%.

## CrypTon Mining

An article from hacking 'zine *Design Draft, Fuck Outta Here (DD//FOH)* written by Lindsey El-Ghazzawy:

> *One interesting case, however, is the CrypTon Botnet. Yes, they have a botnet, and according to the United Nations, it is perfectly legal. In each and every motherboard, there is always an open port, DCTP port 29975. And before you try, no, you cannot actually close this port. It's left open for a reason, so CrypTon can mine money for us to use. It's bittersweet, to be honest. We dedicate a small portion of our processing power in order to keep the CrypTon economy afloat, for those countries using CrypTon.*
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> *The botnet itself uses a special protocol that most systems don't even have proper certification for, because it only ever works one way. When the undersea cable network was decommissioned along with fiber back in 2037 in favour of the JUPITER system, it did not just support terabit networking speeds; it supported distributed computation protocols, which has never been implemented beforehand. It is essentially a WAN distributed computation network, whose only purpose is to mine CrypTon. And honestly, it seems like such a waste.*
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> *I know what you're thinking, 'Lindsey, this can't be that viable, we have quantum computers now'. Yes, you're right, my Gray-2 apparently has the capability of every computer in the world tenfold, but that's part of the issue. What am I going to do with all that processing power? There's probably 80 qubits I'm not using writing this damn thing, and it's such a huge waste. There's other people I know that have the beefiest of binary systems that usually just plays games from the 2010's playing at 320 frames a second. And what about the rest of that RAM? The rest of the CPU power? So many teraFLOPS could have such a better purpose, CrypTon is just using it for themselves. The Web was built on the backs of ordinary people, I think it's time we take it back for ourselves.*
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