Chaos Coin: By Alyx Gaudio

If there were an individual who dominated the one-world currency, that person surely must be a ghost. The good always perish young while the wicked prosper above the financial stratosphere of a theoretical open market economy.

No human in their right mind would create such a money system except for the individual responsible for the Chaos Coin. Most folks refer to the Chaos Coin as Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptocurrency mined off Pokémon fanatics laptops for nerd clout. Early on, it was just an idea never thought to be worth anything of substantial value. It was frowned upon by the financial tycoons of the world and disregarded by economic scholars.

"It's a bubble," The financially solvent claimed. In the words of bitcoin's creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, "Billionaires have no idea what a bubble is in the sphere of something that exists purely on a decentralized platform." He said this to me in a very thick Chinese accent, of course.

I was Satoshi's friend and worked alongside him in Shanghai for many years. We built the blockchain on a bay of Windows 98 computers. I was Satoshi's silent partner and desktop supplier after he moved into his crappy apartment in the outskirts of Shanghai in 2001.

He was not just a financial Samurai but a pioneer for change. That was before he disappeared into the depths of anonymity on his yacht in the Maldives. The world always hates new ideas. People at the top will do just about anything to crucify the creators of change, especially if it's something capable of flipping the current system on its head.

The idea for the blockchain became dangerously intriguing for Satoshi. Having the allure of untaxable revenue is the bedrock of why he started the decentralized platform. For those who don't know his labor, surely you must know the fruits of it.

Before I lived in China, I erected towers in a sleepy beach town near Biloxi, Mississippi. It was a quaint settlement called Fort Dread with a Waffle House on every corner and a transient streetwalker on every job site.

Erecting towers was a costly business operating in the middle of the Gulf Coast. Not only did I have to plan the ordinance permits properly, but I had to settle with the material negotiated on each lot. Trading day labor for minimum wage wasn't the easiest thing to do in a recession. Most of the crews were on crank, which made negotiating wages stressful. A lot of them were toothless temps and strung-out coffin cleaners looking to make a quick buck.

The days of deciding which contracts to honor are long gone. I currently reside in a small condo in Clearwater and bed-lock a different champagne room dancer almost every night. I'm not a millionaire by any means, but I sure as hell used to be. People don't recall I ever was because I'm not flashy. I keep it simple. A glass of Chardonnay and a cigar after jet skiing is all I need to get my kicks.

By 2012, My towers were reconstructed by multi-million-dollar corporations. When Satoshi retreated to the Maldives, we were both very wealthy in Bitcoin. The Chinese government didn't take too kindly to our gains and seized just about everything we had in Yen, including our strip joint in Beijing. As Bitcoin grew, Satoshi became very famous on the internet. It became too dangerous for him to live in a communist country.

Satoshi's real name is Yoshi Chang. He hated being named after a character from Mario Cart and changed it to something more culturally immersive. His pseudonym originated in the back of a Shanghai Deli in 99. We used to hide folded Yen in rice pudding sandwiches as the value of the Chaos Coin grew. We took Shanghai by storm and sold every idea we encountered for crypto. After partnering with several IT developing firms, we turned the blockchain into a real business. Not one that people make fun of either, except the financial skeptics.

It's sad to think that I could have been a billionaire. Satoshi is still a billionaire, but the government is too greedy to allow tech nerds to prosper on Chinese soil. We were both wanted men in Shanghai for absolutely no reason. They took just about everything we worked for, including our crypto, before we fled. Satoshi still uses a VPN server on his yacht to drive up the price whenever he feels like it.

The thing about Satoshi is that he hated big business. I know every time a larger corporation buys into bitcoin; he's thinking about when to deflate the bubble. He created bitcoin so the little guys could win, not corporate conglomerates.

I receive letters from Satoshi twice a year from an owl he trained to fly across the world. Satoshi's favorite movie was Harry Potter. It's fitting he would pay top dollar to have an owl trainer cater to this mail-carrying fixation.

He's got a slew of people he communicates to within the states but never reveals his location. Quite frankly, he never needs to work again. Satoshi controls the Chaos Coin, even when the world thinks it does. He will always be the grandmaster puppeteer, like a Chinese Geppetto in a bathrobe determined to flip the system upside down.