The Seventh Family

I know who he is

“I am Jayden Rogers..” Jayden began.

“We don’t need your profile.” Danilo cut in. “Tell us about the Ditcoin and how it can protect our money and improve our business modus operandi.”

“You don’t have to be curt Danilo.” Nicolas said. “Have the patience to listen.’

“I know father.” Danilo said. “I know what he was going to say and I can find that out myself and we already know who he is. Time father is valuable and should not be wasted.”

“Go on young man.” Danilo said and lit a cigar.

“Uncle Dan, you can’t smoke while grandpa is here please.” Camillo said.

“What did you just say?” Danilo asked in disbelief. “How dare you tell me what to do or not in front of my father?” He turned at Harry, “how did you raise this child.”

“I am thirty Uncle and you keep treating me like a baby.”

“Don’t act like a baby. I and my father used to smoke together so you can’t come in now to tell me how to live with my father. He is my father and not yours.”

“He is my grandfather and not yours.” Camillo said.

“Shut up Camillo. This is your uncle.” Harry his father said.

“It does not matter who he is. Not even you have the right to smoke here because that is passive smoking and it is bad for his heath. I know you used to smoke with him I did too but he was forced to stop and passive smoking is equally dangerous.”

“He is right.” Sean said. “You need to get his point.”

“Enough!” Nicolas said. “Let him smoke. I know there are people who want me dead and I don’t know how it is going to help them.”

Danilo hissed and quenched the cigar.

“If I wanted you dead, you would have been dead long ago. It is pity senility is doing this to you.”

“Common Danilo” Sean said. “This is father.”

“I knew that before you.”

“If you are not ready to be here, then leave.” Nicolas said. “I still remain the head of the family. You must respect me or I send you out of here.”

Danilo grimaced.

“I am sorry father.” He said. “I am just skeptical and kind of agitated. I don’t trust this guy you have here.”

“We do not need your approval.” Nicolas said. “Go on, Jayden.’

“Thank you sir.” Jayden went on. “Before I talk about the in-house channels..”

“I am sorry but I want to get something clear.” Danilo said. “The part I don’t get is this: You people say  nobody knows the owner and you keep talking about the in-house channels. The owner has access to everything on it and can access everything we do. Do we need an expert to know it all bullshit? We go in there, we get no secret and we are at the mercy of whoever the mysterious SM is.”

“Let me explain that before I move on. I wanted to leave it for the last past but it is imperative to give an insight. Let us use f******k as an example. Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of f******k and one the founders. f******k has access to all our messages, posts, and pictures on the platform. What if the five of her decide to create a group on f******k, and decide to call ourselves by the first letters of our names and we all agree to us the word sun to represent give it to and I type Sun C which means give it to Camillo? Mark or his operators can access this but what they will see is Sun C. They can see but they can’t comprehend even though they own the platform and have access to everything there. That is how the in-house channels work. They work with codes as coded by participants and each channel has their individual codes which are decoded at the end of encryption. We understand things in different ways because we have different level of intelligence and assimilation.

Sean chuckled.

“Excuse me?” Danilo said.

“It is just an aphorism sir.”

Nicolas chuckled too. The young man hit Danilo there.

“Now we get that part.” Danilo said. “It makes a little sense. Go on.’

“It makes a lot of sense.” Sean said. “Go on Jayden.”

“Ditcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in last year by an unknown person or group of people using the name SM and started in the same year when its implementation was released as open source code.

It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer ditcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes n through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a Wallchain. Ditcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. Research produced by the University of Sanbridge estimates that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using ditcoin.

Ditcoin has been criticized for its use in illegal transactions, the large amount of electricity used by miners, price volatility, and thefts from exchanges. Some economists, including several Nobel LauretesNobel , have characterized it as a speculative bubble at various times. Ditcoin has also been used as an investment, although several regulatory agencies have issued investor alerts about ditcoin.

This is a big advantage for some of us who are into certain transactions because we do not need any scrutiny from any central bank. This allows us to create in-house channels and have coded transactions, and make payments without anyone raising an eyebrow.”

Danilo was now calmer. This seemed to be a dream platform.

“How does the Wallchain work?” Camillo asked.

“Wallchain is the underlying technology on which the majority of cryptocurrencies, including Ditcoin and Poruem, are based.

The wallchain is a distributed ledger. It is similar to the ledger that banks hold to check all the digital transactions we make using fiat currency.

Unlike the bank’s ledger, there is no central authority that controls it. Anyone in the network can see that a transaction has taken place. This provides the security, transparency and trust that has got so many excited about cryptocurrency.

Think of it more like a Google doc to which everyone has access. They can all see every change that has been and will be made and have a say on whether they should allow them to remain. The difference is that a wallchain uses a consensus algorithm to ensure that the correct changes are made and no one can hijack the process for their own ends. It also uses cryptography to ensure that once a change has been verified, it cannot be undone.

The best example is wallchain’s first and still most famous application: Ditcoin.

The Ditcoin ledger is distributed across the entire network. Everyone in the network can see it and trust that what is on it is correct. That transaction is recorded in the Ditcoin wallchain ledger and sent across the whole Ditcoin network for everyone to see.

The updated ledger is copied hundreds of thousands of times, every single hour, across multiple computers to make sure that everyone is on the exact same page. They will then verify that the transaction has really taken place and there is nothing amiss. If at least 51%!c(MISSING)onfirm that it has taken place, it will be added permanently to the wallchain.

Because that wallchain has to be double and triple and quadruple checked by computers all around the world, you can actually set your own computer to become part of the network and help both verify transactions and also help mine Ditcoin.

People aren’t just using wallchain for cryptocurrency, though. You can theoretically store any data on a wallchain and companies across a variety of industries are using it for different tasks, such as keeping track of goods through the supply chain.”

“This seems impossible to hack.” Sean said.

“Yes it is difficult to hack but you can never underestimate a hacker. Right now, it seems impossible to hack but I will be frank with you, the more complex a Wallchain is the more it is prone to mistakes. I foresee some loopholes.

A wallchain is a cryptographic database maintained by a network of computers, each of which stores a copy of the most up-to-date version. A wallchain protocol is a set of rules that dictate how the computers in the network, called nodes, should verify new transactions and add them to the database. The protocol employs cryptography, game theory, and economics to create incentives for the nodes to work toward securing the network instead of attacking it for personal gain. If set up correctly, this system can make it extremely difficult and expensive to add false transactions but relatively easy to verify valid ones.

 But the attacks on the wallchains themselves would be very difficult except  on exchanges, the websites where people can buy, trade, and hold cryptocurrencies. And many of those heists would be blamed on poor basic security practices. Susceptibility to 51% attacks is inherent to most cryptocurrencies. That’s because most are based on wallchains that use proof of work as their protocol for verifying transactions. In this process, also known as mining, nodes spend vast amounts of computing power to prove themselves trustworthy enough to add information about new transactions to the database. A miner who somehow gains control of a majority of the network's mining power can defraud other users by sending them payments and then creating an alternative version of the wallchain in which the payments never happened. This new version is called a fork. The attacker, who controls most of the mining power, can make the fork the authoritative version of the chain and proceed to spend the same cryptocurrency again.

For popular wallchains, attempting this sort of heist is likely to be extremely expensive. Renting enough mining power to attack Ditcoin would currently cost more than $200,000 per hour. But it gets much cheaper quickly as you move down the list of the more than 1,500 cryptocurrencies out there. Slumping coin prices make it even less expensive, since they cause miners to turn off their machines, leaving networks with less protection.

But with the codes nodes I use, it makes it almost impossible to understand my transaction so hacking is not possible.” Jayden glanced at Camillo and smiled. “Mr. Camillo can testify to that.”

“Does that mean we have to use your nodes?”

“The basics, yes but you will encrypt it in such a way I will not understand what you mean. I will be like the f******k, and you will be the one who makes Go becomes Sun becomes  give it to.”

“You don’t have to go so elementary on me.” Danilo said.

“Thank you very much for coming.” Nicolas said. “I am feeling a bit sleepy. I think you will have to come back next week while we plan how to start.”

“Okay sir.”

“Camillo, let him have five thousand dollars for gasoline.” Nicolas said.

Danilo grimaced. Was Camillo the financial assistance. Why was Nicolas acting like he wanted Camillo to take over from him?

“I am quite appreciative sir. I take this as my wedding gift,.”

“Are you getting married?” Nicolas asked.

“It is a lovely day for me sir. I am getting married today.”

“Congratulations!” Nicolas said.

“Congratulations!” Camillo, Sean and Harry said. Danilo was deep in thoughts, plus he did not like Jayden. There was something about him that worried him.

“Which church are you getting married at?” Sean asked.

“It is just a registry. Just between me and my wife. Maybe one day, we will celebrate in a big way.”

“You did not invite anyone?” Nicolas asked.

“No sir. We can’t afford any celebration but it all about the love of the day.”

“I understand.” Nicolas said.

After Jayden left the place, he called Jane who said she was ready.

“Guess what?”

“What?”

“I just got five thousand d dollars.”

“Oh my God!” She exclaimed. “We are going to have a dinner at least.”

“Yes and you will send three thousand dollars to your siblings.”

“Oh my God! I can’t believe this is happening but I won’t send it all at once. It is going to be weekly so they don’t squander.”

“You have a point.”

“Let us forget about that for now. Where are you?”

“On my way to get meet you my love.”

Jane was happy. It sounded crazy to meet a man and suddenly he proposes within days and you get married but it was not all about time but love. She loved him and for the first time in her life, she was going to have someone to call hers. Someone who truly cared for her.

She had never really fallen in love but she had always dreamt of falling in love someday and get married where there will be a lavish party. Not all dreams came true and she did not care about that now. All that mattered was getting married to the man who loved.

After Jayden left the Nicolas mansion, the old man retired to his vast bedroom. He asked Camillo to come back later so they could talk. He wanted to reveal the deepest secrets to his trustworthy grandson.

He felt he too much wine that morning. He lay on the vast bed and took in a deep breath.

He had been thinking of the strange notes and words the serial killer used. Was it possible that the seventh family still existed? He had to mentally analyze this.

It was at that moment his phone beeped. He hesitated and then picked it.

“Hello.”

“Giorno Dell’amoure 21499.”

Nicolas felt something cold crawling up inside him.

“Show yourself you coward!”

“You and the rest of your gang were the cowards.” A voice said. “I made sure I killed the seven of you and what you stole was retrieved. The seventh family that you ganged up against rose again and I made sure each of you remembered and knew it was a member of the family that killed you.”

“I am not dead and I will die [peacefully on my bed.”

“It does not mean weather you die on bed or not. The point is you were killed by me.”

“You can’t kill me.”

“I have killed you already. This is your last day?”

Nicola wondered what he meant by he had killed him already. Who was he to have such a confidence.

“I will get you.” Nicolas said.

“I like to see you try.”

The call ended and Nicolas closed his eyes. He dialed a number.

“Make sure no one comes in here.” He said. “And put a call to Camillo. I need him here.”

“Yes Sir.”

“Ohhh, who is that son of a b***h?” He whispered and closed his eyes.

Then he opened them.

He dialed a number .

“Camillo” He called.

“Grandpa.”

“Come to my bedroom and hurry!”

“I hope you are fine grandpa”

“Hurry! I think I know who he is.”

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