#75: Joshua and Cody Have been busy.

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a few days later

Carl notices that Joshua and Cody have been extremely busy lately. Curious as a cat he goes looking for them.

“Whatcha’ doing?” he asks.

“sigh Do you know the reward for a ‘job well done’ Carl? “ Cody asked. He’s pretending to be grumpy but not pulling it off very well. He’s actually kind of proud.

“No? What is it? A bowl of cookies? Milk? Bacon?” Carl was in a Caloric-Centric phase of his life.

“No silly.” Joshua said “ The reward for a ‘job well done’ is another job.”

“Sounds more like punishment to me.’ Carl said, looking over his shoulder. “Say, shouldn’t the Merkle root be hashed indirectly? Are you encoding 3 bytes mantissa?”

“Ah! I hear a volunteer!” Joshua said.

“No. Really! I don’t have any idea. I was just curious about what you were doing.” Carl backed away quickly.

“It’s like this.” Joshua said “We have unbreakable copy protection. The ArchMage, bless his heart, has decided that we should install a new, optional section, in the MagLib.”

“I thought the MagLib was auto-magic” Carl said.

“giggle not to Mages or Daemons it isn’t” Cody replied. “They can make it do what they want it to do.”

“And the thing his munificence want’s us to make it do,” Yvette said “ bless his hairy bottom, is to put a ‘For Sale’ section in the MageLib”.

“Yup.” Joshua said “From now on, writers like that fat old fart, what’s his name, can write an e-book, post it to the appropriate section of the MageLib and people can pay to download it. Every time it’s copied he get’s a fee. The BlockChain is useful in a number of activities, not just money but contracts and copyright protection. One you pay for something you can do almost anything you want to with it but stealing it is almost impossible.”

“Like a program for SSmoke for a new fantasy sword?” Carl asked.

“Seriously Carl? A fantasy sword? But yes, that or a new interior for a Manta, or any of a number of things” Yvette said.

“If you have enough SSmoke” Joshua said

“Cain’t never have too much SSmoke” they all four repeated in unison.

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