Neptune's Brood (Freyaverse, #2)

by Charles Stross

Slow money is a medium of exchange designed to outlast the rise and fall of civilizations. It is the currency of world-builders, running on an engine of debt that can only be repaid by the formation of new interstellar colonies, passing the liability ever onward into the deep future—or

Your slow money assets are, in a very real manner, an aspect of your identity. Nobody

You can’t inflate the quantity in circulation—the bitcoin algorithm used to prime issuing banks prevents that.

Slow money transactions can take a good chunk of a person’s life.

difference between merchant banking and barefaced piracy is slimmer than most people imagine.

Rumor is the only information channel that travels faster than light.