To consolidate their hold, the Satoshians build fortified citadels on the outskirts of urban centers. In these protected locations, members live under the laws of the sect, cut off from the outside world and the devastating fluctuations of external markets. They exchange goods and services exclusively in bitcoin, seeing it as a way of escaping the instability of worthless cryptos, which they leave to the “ignorant”.

The citadels are structured strictly hierarchically: at the top are the Miners, and below them the Initiates, who perform more difficult tasks in the hope of accumulating satoshis. Even lower down are the Recruits, often former factory workers, who are promised a life of toil in exchange for meagre access to the internal Satoshian economy.

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