-- -- An up-and-coming slaver writes a blockchains. "SlaverCoin". It's a fork of bitcoin, since bitcoin is the most well-known. SlaverCoin Consensus rule: If you use nonhuman labor to mine sha256d, we get to enslave you. Slaves must be given in proportion to traded coin, freely divisible. SlaverCoin is a big hit. Gets all the advertisements. Everybody thinks it's a joke until people move in as servants when they buy coins. Physical addressea are directly asssociated with crytographic addresses, so that the purchased and sold slaves know where to go. A slavercoin kid discovers that non-slavercoin slaves are sharing their stories on other blockchains, and wants to try it out. Meanwhile, on other blockchains, wealthy investors are getting a rise out of freeing slaves. ...