Chapter 3, Intro
Hashing it out
Intro

—SATOSHI NAKAMOTO: “Hey, you! Yeah, you! Remember me? Bitcoin is under a 51% attack! Vanderpoole used a virus to bend existing mining pools to his goals. He’s using them to mine empty blocks to hold the Bitcoin ecosystem hostage and force people to support increasing bitcoin’s supply.” – Satoshi Nakamoto

—The old computer coughs a little, then produces a wad of data in something called a “spreadsheet”: contact info for some of the largest bitcoin pool operators and a patch to the virus that is letting BitRey control them. Send the file to them so they can regain control of their machines and join your fight against BitRey.

HOLOCAT: “We’ve got more work to do. Well, you do. I’m gonna run through walls and scare mice.”