Fresh Contracts and Shoes

This morning’s collection of contracts looked promising. The overnight search engine had found a couple of fresh cryptocurrency contracts that showed some signs of weakness. Of the millions of new contracts created and put on the chain each day, only a handful are crafted by humans. Some people work together with other contracts to write new ones, but the vast majority are spawned by constantly replicating and mutating parent contracts. And most of the wealth resides in these pieces of code that persist and are executed on the chain. By wealth I mean units of course. That which used to be called money in the old days, when there were still things like banks run by people. Quantitative easing, zero interest rates, hyper inflation/deflation, currency wars and other banking shenanigans wiped out not only banks and money but many lives and families. There are only units – units are trust – quantum cryptographically safe tokens, generated with algorithmic precision and certainty. There are only three ways to get them: create them by owning expensive and powerful quantum computers, trading them against other types of units on exchanges, or cracking weak contracts and transferring some units to your own, hopefully safer contract. Sure, you can scrape by on the basic allowance that everyone gets who is prepared to get chipped – all that gets you, is one dry algaeBAR(TM) a day. Its not like doing anything illegal when you swipe a contract that you don’t own – after all, code is law, and any execution of the code is therefore lawful. Of course, be ready to expect the counter-attack.

Anyway, I decided to look at one of this morning’s contracts called BE/21m that was a great great grand child of a contract that I had managed to hack a few days ago. I perused a couple of hundred lines of code and thought that this one might fall for the old greed trap as well. So I send a few units to contract BE, together with a slightly modified LKAZ module. Sure enough, BE mutates with LKAZ and spawns five BE-LKAZ contracts, a to e. Now I use a few of my other contracts to send various amounts of units to all child contracts. BE bites and feeds some units into its new children as well. The LKAZ code acts and sends some payout back to the parent BE. Positive feedback happens. As I check the child balances I can’t believe my luck: some profit search engines must have picked up the high payout of BELKAZc. Profit contracts are transferring units to it, pumping it up. I empty the other children out into BELKAZc. More feedback. Reflexivity has kicked in. Now its all down to timing. Calling the top when units bubble on the exchanges is next to impossible. But this one is mine. I know that by now, other humans are looking at the code of BELKAZc and unlike the some machine contracts, they will soon realise this is just a ponzi. I also know that some of them will feed it for a short while in the hope of profits for them. The value of BELKAZc has increased 4237 times – that’s worth more than a few algaeBAR(TM). I pull the plug and empty BELKAZc into my safe contracts. I might even get some new shoes today.