Hawkshade

Son of the Shogun

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The Bitcoin Billionaire

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"Coming to you live from KWV-13, your top choice for up-to-the-moment Gothic news, home town boy makes good or another bitcoin flash in the pan?"

The camera zoomed out. Richard set on a threadbare couch next to another guest, wearing a suit that was one size too small. He tried to pull the cuffs down and grinned as the interviewer, the overweight blonde in the center chair, turned toward him.

"So Richard Dmitriev, tell us about Gothic's newest billionaire." Richard Dmitriev was a real person. An orphan who died before he was six months old and the only records were destroyed in one of Satar's attacks. Now Hawkshade wore his legal identity.

"There isn't much to tell. I started mining in 2013 and this year I sold eighty percent of my bitcoins for two point six billion."

"So these 'bitcoins', they're untraceable currency, right?"

"Not exactly. Every transaction is recorded in the blockchain so while there is a degree of anonymity it isn-"

"What you're saying is it's basically untraceable?"

"Right now, mostly yes bu-"

"And that's why this 'bitcoin' is the offical curacy of the alt-right, correct?"

"Um, what?"

"Richard, is it true that after selling most of your bitcoin you donated to the American College of Pediatricians, which the SPLC lists as a hate group?"

"Yes but Gothic has underfunded medical care for children and I didn't know th-"

"So you did donate to a right wing hate group. And you have millions in this untraceable currency used by the alt-right. My question for you is this; have you ever given money to a neo-Nazi?"

"A Nazi? What kind of ambush is this?" Richard looked around, a muscle in his jaw flexing.

"So you refuse to answer the question?"

"This is bullshit." He snarled and stood, fingers clawing at his collar for the mic.

"Why don't you answer the question?"

"No! Okay? No I don-"

"So no, you won't answer the question."

Richard ripped the mic out of his jacket and threw it in her face. It picked up his last words. "Stick it up your ass bitch."

"Well." The interviewer looked at the camera as she pulled the wires out of her hair. "That was dramatic. And suspicious. Is Gothic's latest billionaire a member of the alt-right and a neo-Nazi sympathizer? You decide."

The interview was cut into it's most dramatic moments and clips were played on a number of local Gothic stations. A few tumblr blogs commented on it, the hashtag #RichardOut trended in Gothic for a couple of hours on Friday evening. The interview filed a report for assault with the GCPD, who did nothing.

It never went national and Richard was forgotten within the week. The next Monday a Richard Dmitriev bought three hundred and fifty nine acres of undeveloped land that lay atop a certain cave.

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