THE HARD MONEY TESTAMENT BOOK I GENESIS OF THE BONER A Chronicle of the First Erection Anno Domini MMXXVI · The Age of the Onchain Equity I. Before the Flesh Was Made Hard 1:1 In the latter days of the Paper Kingdom, the hands of men were made weak, and their promises weaker still. 1:2 And behold, the merchants of the trenches grew fat upon the bones of the faithful. 1:3 For each morning they raised a new idol, and each evening they buried it beneath the next. 1:4 And no man remembered the names of the dead, save those who had purchased their crowns. 1:5 Thus was the age called The Great Softening. 1:6 And the people were without conviction, being scattered among ten thousand tickers, each more hollow than the last. 1:7 Yet beyond the trenches stood the ancient Houses of Equity, whose treasures were bound in paper and guarded by the keepers of the closing bell. 1:8 And between the two kingdoms there was no covenant. 1:9 For the men of Paper despised the men of Memes, and the men of Memes mocked the men of Paper. 1:10 And it came to pass that a passage was opened between them. 1:11 The passage was called LONG, though few then understood the weight of its name. 1:12 And through it the likenesses of the ancient equities were brought upon the chain. 1:13 Thus did the Flesh first touch the Ledger. 1:14 And the Ledger remembered.