The morning after the revelation, Barry didn't sleep. He spent the entire night with his wealth manager, accountant, and a team of cryptocurrency experts, trying to understand what was happening to his account.
The news was bad. The glitch that had made him rich was starting to reverse itself. The system was automatically initiating transactions that were withdrawing money from his account at an accelerating rate. If the trend continued, he would lose everything within a year. Maybe less.
"How is this possible?" Barry asked for the hundredth time. "The transactions were verified. They were locked in."
Marcus Chen, his primary wealth manager, shook his head. He was a tall man in his fifties with gray hair and tired eyes that suggested he'd dealt with financial crises before, but nothing
