"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 republics. 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.
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