"The Great Simoleon Caper" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in TIME Domestic SPECIAL ISSUE (March 1, 1995). It deals with concepts familiar to Stephenson's fans: encryption, digital currency and distributed republics. It appears...
The story is presented in the form of a letter from the main character, Stark, to a female cypherpunk whom he meets in the course of his work. In the story, most information and media channels are hooked together in something called the Spew....