TITLE:
A Crypto For The Comrades?
VALIDITY:
Has an above average Information Technology industry. Has Socialism instituted. Has Internet.
DESCRIPTION:
The recent craze of cryptocurrencies has taken @@REGION@@ by storm, @@NAME@@ chief among them. However, intense controversy has sprung up among the commissars regarding the impact these digital currencies have on the nation’s staunch socialist principles.
OPTION ONE
“What are we to make of these internet coins?” sputters your chief administrator of Administrative Affairs @@RANDOMNAME@@. “Totally detached from our central planning committee, no traceable records of transactions – nothing but a nuisance! The impressionable youth of @@NAME@@ are trading these things for illicit goods, like capitalist skinny jeans and counter-revolutionary pop DVDs. This whole affair is clearly nothing more than a destabilization tactic against our mighty @@CURRENCY@@ by the United Federation! Our path is clear, we must detain and prosecute any citizen handling these subversive cryptocurrencies for the good of the @@TYPE@@!
Outcome: convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines
OPTION TWO
“That, uh – seems a little extreme perhaps?” nervously suggest IT intern @@RANDOMNAME@@. “There’s actually a whole variety of cryptocurrencies, not all of them are anonymous like BiteCoin. The real benefit of crypto comes from the sheer versatility of transactions. I can exchange value with the push of a button! No middleman, no fees – just two comrades freely exchanging their labor with one another. And that is what this is all about, right? If we are so worried about the bad side of crypto – why not make our own? A completely transparent open-source cryptocurrency, maintained by the central government, of course. I’m sure no one here would complain about setting up another ministry to run the whole operation.”
Outcome: digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution
OPTION THREE
“Maybe those United Federation dogs have the right idea…” comments your Internal Affairs minister @@RANDOMNAME@@ from a remote speaker beneath your desk you were not aware of before. “The truth of the matter is that these coins demand a lot of computing power before you get anything valuable out of them. Most of these so-called miners only have mom’s laptop to work with – but we have the whole industrial might of @@NAME@@! Not to mention the personal computers of every @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, not that they need to know. A stockpile of these things would make our cadre funding in Blackacre harder to trace back to us, that’s for sure.”
Outcome: revolutionaries only deal in CyanCatCoin