Joseph Gagliardo

The Blockchain

At 8:42 a.m., Dennis Hemphill's implanted Augmented Reality lens flashed a message for a new job, which he accepted promptly. There were increasingly fewer jobs for security enforcement freelancers anymore, so he had to act quickly. Prior to the constant upload of all human activity to the global blockchain, Dennis had worked for McQueen Enforcement Solutions, a major private security corporation. But on May 4, 2034, the global blockchain went online, and it forever altered everything.