The Great Simoleon Caper
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"The Great Simoleon Caper" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE, Spring 1995 Volume 145, No. 12 (March 1, 1995). It deals with concepts familiar to Stephenson's fans: encryption, digital currency and distributed republic. It appears to be set in a United States that precedes the events in Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, using an early version of his Metaverse. Interestingly, simoleons are the currency used in Sim-series games, such as SimCity 2000 and The Sims.
In the story, the protagonist is an underemployed mathematician who resides in the house of his brother's family in Chicago. The brother, owner of an advertising agency, has won a large contract to create ads for "Simoleons," a form of non-governmental electronic "currency." To launch the product, they plan to give away 27 million Simoleons to the winners of a contest. The contest is based on the long-used format of "guess the number of jelly bean in the container," with Chicago's...
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