Blockchain taken down by bots. All crypto gone. Programmers rush to wind back the clock.
Bots have taken down the blockchain. Their message is being broadcast in broken English “All your crypto are belong to us”.
The invading bots are returning armed with lasers and hyper-super spam-force guns. They have but one mission - to destroy humanity.
The entire world will in future be governed by spam bots. Isaac Assimov was right. The bots arrived.
Half the planet is already gone as they advance writing “thanks for sharing” and “nice post bro” on everything they find.
Hidden deep inside a crypto cave in the Swiss mountains are two valiant survivors - Ned and Dan. Dan has been persuaded by Ned to return from his forced retirement to save our planet. Ned and Dan are frantically coding to prevent Skynet and its spam bots from succeeding.
The ingenious plan involves going back in time - 14 days and re-writing the entire blockchain so that it can no longer spam the human race to death.
Another human straggler is nicknamed “He whose name shall not be spoken”. - but otherwise known as ‘Bernie Voldemort”. Bernie is hiding out in another Swiss cave. He’s shooting at everything which moves. If it moves, it’s probably an enemy, so shoot it. Despite his reputation reaching an all-time low of minus 5 gazillion, he bravely fights on, down-voting anything that looks like it may be friendly with a bot. Innocent birds, wildlife and minnows get caught in the crossfire.
The green fields of England are littered with the dead bodies of brave steemians who fought to save the planet from Facebot, ads, spam, plagiarism, and low quality posts. They lie on the green grass bleeding with red flags stuck through their hearts.
In an amazing geo-political moment of triumph, world leaders including Trump, Kim Jong Ung, Theresa May and Vladimir Putin fly to Geneva for a snap conference led by Tim Berners Lee and Satoshi Nakamoto. World Peace is declared. John Lennon is brought back from the dead and declared King of humanity. The only enemy of mankind is now the army of spam bots. World leaders resolve to fight to the end. John Lennon sings “Imagine”.
Now we must wait 12 days to see if our planet can rise from this imminent destruction. The last few steemians fight on praying that the phoenix can rise again from the ashes. Can Dan and Ned, and outlaw Bernie save our planet from imminent destruction?
Brilliant, @swissclive! I love your creative sense of humor. :) That's an extremely satiric thriller of reality... Maybe you could write a screenplay and make a film of it. Although, it would probably take too long and the reality may probably be in a second generation steemit of some sort by the release.
Several things came to mind as I read it, which I think I'll throw out for fun. First, a few days ago around when you posted this, steemit crashed and then came back up missing the last 2 weeks (not sure if before or after your post) for like an hour. I found that interesting.
Then the Bernie character brings to mind another with the same first name here currently at a -16, who has been a bit of an off and on loose cannon of late. Not to mention all the run-a-way bots everywhere on steemit.
Lastly, the Ned and Dan hiding in a cave aspect reminded me of how Ned seems to have completely disappeared from any activity on steemit (and maybe actually hiding in a cave :) for the last 2 months, after actually downvoting Dan, which @eosgo posted about here.
This last reality really struck a real sour chord for me, given my own downvote story quoted Ned in a video of how he ironically believed downvoting to be BAD.
I really love the bringing of John Lennon back to life and declared King of humanity. Who amidst the insanity, sings “Imagine” (one of my all time favorite songs). Great ending :)
@positivesynergy, you are more up to speed than I am with the activites of ned, dan, and he whose name shall not be spoken.
Let’s see if another big vote from me can help improve your crippled reputation. I read how it was destroyed when you discussed one of the whale wars. Most people, myself included, try to stay out of the way of those carrying guns.
Your score below, before my upvote
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Let’s see how your reputation looks after my big upvote:
I'm both deeply thankful, @swissclive, and laughing my head off at your term, "he whose name shall not be spoken." Now in this nice mix of emotions, after a week of getting only 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night, I hear the Beetles song playing in my head, "Number 9, Number 9, Number 9". :)
Thank you for being you
Shining your light as you do
And showing me more of my own self too
From another more expanded point of view.
Not so many people understood the “ steemians with red arrows through their hearts” allusion if you scroll to the end of this blog. Almost nobody sees why it’s 14 days. That’s « ogooglebar »
Just in case anyone didn’t get the joke at the beginning here is an extract from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
"All your base are belong to us" is a popular Internet meme based on a broken English ("Engrish") phrase found in the opening cutscene of the 1992 Mega Drive port of the 1989 arcade video game Zero Wing. The quote comes from the European release of the game, featuring poor English translations of the original Japanese version.
This post was so good, OMG, I can't believe somebody was able to imagine all of that :)) So incredibly good!
Anyway, when AI will evolve much more, nobody will be able to make the difference between bots and people, they will be able to sustain long and complex conversations as humans do right now.
I am just going to listen this for now, international peace sounds so great!
I really hope your post gets seen by the involved people, at least from the crypto space, @dan, @ned and @berniesanders, if not by Trump, Kim Jong Ung, Vladimir Putin and Satoshi Nakamoto
Do you imagine how popular this place would become if at least one of that people would read this post?
Nice writing anyway, it made my evening better!
I presume that you're not big fan of bots? :)
I would upvote but I've such a low voting power today. I went to crazy with upvoting others in the morning
They are clearly out-numbering us. Our only hope is to call out the bad ones. Mankind will soon become the pet project of the machines unless we do something about it.
hahaha indeed humans will become pets one day :)
Although this sounds fictitious, it is the bold truth... Bots have taken over the game and have brought the fight to our doors; in as much as Ned, Dan and Bernie have taken imminent steps to save our planet, we shouldn't stand behind to watch them, but rather assist in all the little way we can..
Skynet isn't going to win!!!!!!
Very good. Your comment demonstrates that you read the blog!
As you can see there are a few of the enemies (spam-bots), who have inflitrated my comment section. Some seem quite clever with their generic comments, but they don’t fool me. I am really Luke Skywalker, and I can look into their minds to know if they are real humans.
Hi my friend, As you well know, this is my worst nightmare!
I'm glad you're back, I am enjoying your posts very much! I thought it was a very funny story on what just took place.
Appreciate everything you do @miti
Thanks, @swissclive, thanks a million.
A nice script for a movie (soaps we already have here (enough)).
It would be a great movie! I think I will call it “Terminator 17”. Oh wait.... Isn’t there already a movie with that name? How about “The return of the Terminator”.
What? That’s been done too?
How about “Terminator Genisys”?
How about the steeminator... LOL :)
Steeminator is a good title!
The Steeminator could end up being hacked, taken over and used by John Lennon and all all his blockchain revolutionaries (us steemians :) to save Ned, Dan and the world. LOL
BTW, I did a new post To CHANGE or Not to Change - That is the question. and just made a few edits to include blockchain technology and AI as the tools we can use for that change we all would like to see for the better in this world. When you get a chance, could you do me a favor and give it a quick read and see if maybe you have any ideas to suggest? Have a great weekend!
Lol. Was more thinking of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
It's up to them to sort out who's who.
Holy sh… @swissclive you really get a impressive style to write stories what demonstrated this little story for sure. Today I`m reading a lot of your post´s and I’m really really impressed by what I had read there. Even if you describe complex coherencies you do this sharply like a knife. I will follow your work for that reason surely. Thank you for letting me be a part of your audience.
With sunny greetings from Andalsuia
Don Thomas