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Hmmm. I think they could trade in things like clock cycles, literally tradiing runtime away.
That might be a bit grim though.

If it's a ruined post-corruption zone, then perhaps the best sort of currency is... Order. Somehow-discrete units of something that stabilizes corruption and does the equivilant of defragmenting for a program. Those who have a lot of it find it easier to keep it, and those who don't... have to gamble what little they have to try for more.

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@LexYeen @emanate @zx3 Oooh, I suppose you could have both. Cycles being more dangerous because it's your life, in a way.

Maybe you just get shut down for a while to save resources, or conscripted (heh) into fighting the corruption, if you run out.

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