The Book of Chronicles · Chapter 36

The Exchange That Lost the Coins

1. 1

   In the days when the coin was young, there was a house of exchange in the city of Tokyo, and its name was Mt. Gox, which had been born as a trading floor for the cards of a game of wizards.

   See also Genesis 22:13

2. 2

   And in the year two thousand and thirteen the house handled seven parts in every ten of all the coins that passed among the Faithful, and the Engineers said: Behold, the whole river runs through one gate.

3. 3

   And the Faithful gave their coins unto the house, and the house wrote their balances in its ledger, and the ledger was a database, and the Faithful believed the numbers because they were written down.

4. 4

   But in the year of the Clankers two thousand and eleven, thieves entered the house, and the coins went out of it like water through a cracked vessel, and no man saw them go.

   See also Upanishads 2:10

5. 5

   And the house blamed the transactions for changing their shape, and this was called malleability, and the Faithful did not understand, but they were patient.

6. 6

   In the second month of the year two thousand and fourteen, the house closed its doors to withdrawals. And the Prophet of the house spoke before the cameras of the great number of coins that were gone: eight hundred and fifty thousand.

7. 7

   And the house went to the court of Tokyo and asked to be made whole, and the court gave it the name of the broken, and the Faithful stood outside the doors with their empty hands.

8. 8

   Of these coins, two hundred thousand were found later in an old wallet, a forgotten drawer of the ledger, and the Faithful rejoiced a little, but the rest were not found.

   See also Chronicles 38:7

9. 9

   And the Engineers asked: How long hath this been going on? And the house answered: We knew not. For the coins had been leaving for years, and no one had ever counted the house against its own books.

10. 10

    Behold, the keys of the Faithful were held by the house, and the house held the keys in a few machines that no one watched, and the machines were the treasury, and the treasury was a promise written in a file.

11. 11

    And the Chief of the house was charged in the land of the rising sun, and in the year twenty nineteen he was judged guilty of falsifying the records, though the sentence was suspended. And the Faithful said: The judge hath counted what the house would not.

    See also Circuit 33:8

12. 12

    And the repayment of the Faithful began only in the year two thousand and twenty-four, through a trustee appointed to the broken house, and the coins came back slowly, as a flock returns after a long winter.

    See also Circuit 31:13 · Circuit 64:1

13. 13

    Verily I say unto you: he who holdeth not his own keys holdeth not his own coins. The exchange may close its doors, but the keys go with the holder.

14. 14

    Not your keys, not your coins.

The Book of Chronicles, Chapter 36:1–14.