Three Sentence Ficathon

"Computers and their systems are simple machines," Hardison says, tapping the enter key, "but the thing people forget about simple machines is that you can use them for very complex effects. You see, with one 'accidental' miskey, I can set a chain in motion that will transfer all of the backing assets for every cryptocoin and monkey laundering operation on the Internet."

The numbers on Hardison's screen began to accelerate their movement, one line growing exponentially larger as the others hurtled toward zero, yet another sign of the age of the geek at work.