upgrade.desc,"Members receive a trading terminal, a hardware wallet, a mining rig, an RTX 60 graphics card and a graphics card appraisal guide. The terminal holds the bank, the Poinbase exchange and the Web3 page. More cards and rigs are sold by Dr. Jackson."
mixer.upgrade.desc,"Unlocks the mixer in the terminal's Web3 page: deposit tainted coins, get them back days later with less taint. Cash-outs of freshly mixed coins are screened harder; during crackdowns the mixer may be sanctioned and coins withdrawn meanwhile are flagged."
news.crtfreeze.desc,Word is the black market gave security a list of CRT addresses in exchange for being left alone. Holders with low standing are likelier to be frozen.
black.upgrade.desc,"Unlocks the shop in the Web3 page: the black-market faction's on-chain arm. Weekly shelves of contraband, occasionally high-tech goods and GPUs (at a markup); buy spot, or order and wait for a courier. Coin only (PSC, CRT, CRA, Ponero), tainted coin accepted. Needs black-market standing; offline during crackdowns."
black.offline,The shop's on-chain entrance is offline during the crackdown.
nightlog.bm.reopen,Black market: someone reopened at the old spot.
news.bmrug.title,Black-market platform rugged
news.bmrug.desc,"The black market's on-chain entrance went dark overnight, wiping out all escrow and advance funds. A new entrance will appear in a few days."
guide.web3.text,"Bank and trading: depositing turns credits into CRC in your Poinbase account; withdrawing turns CRC back into credits and goes through compliance screening, which looks at the Poinbase account's taint.¶Trading: PSC stands for Probably Stolen Coin, the coin mined by GPUs and miners. Buys are paid in the quote coin, sells in the traded coin.§Mixer and privacy coin: pick a coin, amount and rounds; each round takes a fee and lowers taint, rounds equal days of waiting, and the coins come back to the same address; the more you deposit, the worse the cleaning.¶Privacy-coin swap (Web3 trade page, needs black-market standing): Ponero is a privacy coin and swapping in wipes the taint on that value; {PoneroFee:%} fee each way with a daily limit; coin swapped out of Ponero has no origin and cash-out screening gets stricter.§Hardware wallets: on-chain coins sit in PLEDGER hardware wallets, each with its own balances and taint. A wallet is an item: drag it onto the trading terminal to load it. Open and connect it on the terminal's Wallets page, or connect and disconnect at the top right of the Web3 page. The Web3 page's trading, shop and mixer use the connected wallet; with no wallet or no connection the Web3 page is view-only and every balance reads 0. Coin-paying customers pay into the connected wallet.¶Payments (shop, mixer, Ponero desk, listing fees) start as an invoice on the terminal; type the payee address on the wallet and hold ✓ to sign. The last two characters of an address are a checksum, so a one-character typo is usually caught; once in a while it happens to be valid and the coins go to an address nobody uses. DEX swaps also need a signature on the wallet.¶Poinbase is a custodial account and can withdraw straight to the connected wallet; depositing from a wallet means sending to Poinbase's deposit address, which takes only CRC and PSC. More hardware wallets are sold by Dr. Jackson; drag one onto the trading terminal to add it, up to {WalletMax}. The shop has cheaper ones. A wallet you no longer want can be destroyed on the Wallets page; its coins are lost for good, and anything sent to its address afterwards is lost too.¶Transfers pay a fee: slow, normal or fast, and gas prices rise and fall over roughly a week; when the network is congested fees rise and slow transactions may be dropped from the mempool. Check the full address before sending.§Staking: CRA staked in the Revolution pool earns a daily rate that compounds into the stake; withdrawing means requesting first and waiting four days, with no interest while waiting and no way to take it early. The pool pays from a subsidy fund; when it runs low the rate is cut and word of big holders pulling out may spread. Treat that as a warning: once it collapses CRA is worthless within three days and four days of unlocking is too slow. The balance token SPARK can be minted and burned against CRA at the going price (with a fee); its price swings hard and crashes with the collapse. Staking, minting and burning are contract calls and need a signature on the wallet.§Miners: RatDigg miners (M1 / M2 / M3) are standalone machines with far more hash than a card and a lower power draw per hash; they need a battery, take modules and use no rig slots. Only the shop's miner dealers sell them, gated by black-market standing (M1 {AsicRepM1}, M2 {AsicRepM2}, M3 {AsicRepM3}), sometimes second-hand. When one burns out, repair it by dragging electronic components onto it in order; it comes back {AsicRepairHealthCut} health lower. Somewhere between day {EraMin} and day {EraMax} a ""miner era"" arrives, announced in the paper a few days earlier: the big farms halve their power costs, network hash climbs, GPU miners are diluted and low-end cards barely earn, while miners still do fine.¶Payout address: each miner (rigs and ASIC miners) has a payout address set in its own window; its mining output is sent there every night in proportion to hash power, so two miners can pay two different addresses. It starts unset; with no address, or a wallet that has been destroyed, tha
news.erawarn.title,RatDigg is about to launch a new generation of miners
news.erawarn.desc,"The dedicated-miner maker has announced new hardware, and the industry expects big farms to swap out en masse before long. Some say the good days of GPU mining are numbered."
news.era.title,The miner era
news.era.desc,A new generation of dedicated miners is in mass production and the big farms have halved their power costs. Network hash will climb and GPU miners' returns will be diluted.
nightlog.predict.manip,"Prediction ruled manipulation: ""{0}"", stake {1} confiscated, fraud on record."
news.manip.title,Exchange probes unusual trading
news.manip.desc,Regulators report that someone moved the price with large spot orders and profited from derivatives and predictions; the funds were seized.
perp.manip,Profit {0} on close ruled price manipulation and seized; perp account frozen for {1} days.
news.story.serpico_rev.title,Revolution holds dirt on Security
news.story.serpico_rev.desc,"The Revolution reportedly obtained evidence of corruption inside Security. Word from the staking pool: a large sum has been injected into the CRA subsidy, and SPARK has been firming up."
news.story.serpico_bm.title,Black market strikes a quiet deal
news.story.serpico_bm.desc,"An internal Security document changed hands on the black market. Darknet settlement has been noticeably steadier since, and CRT redemptions have not slipped once."
news.story.serpico_sec.desc,Security announced a full investigation into internal corruption and tighter monitoring of money flows. Poinbase is tightening cash-out screening and mixing services have been named.
news.story.eleanor_leak.title,Nutrifruit breeding data leaked
news.story.eleanor_leak.desc,"The lower-level paper published research that lets nutrifruit set seed again; Pastelle shares plunged. The bank custodying upper-level funds reports bad debts, and the Revolution is gaining ground."
news.story.eleanor_return.title,Pastelle recovers stolen data
news.story.eleanor_return.desc,"Pastelle confirmed it recovered stolen research data. Upper-level capital breathed a sigh of relief, and the CRC custodian bank was upgraded."
news.story.lun_arrested.title,Officer Lun arrested for abuse of power
news.story.lun_arrested.desc,Security arrested Officer Lun on the spot for abuse of power and promised a strict crackdown on illegal trading for the next two weeks.
tumbler.v1.1,Hi. I hear the terminal here is hooked up to my mixer.
tumbler.v1.2,I wrote that thing. People call me Tumbler.
tumbler.v1.3,It doesn't touch your goods or keep your books. It just stirs the coins.
tumbler.v1.4,Was passing by. Wanted to see what my users look like.
tumbler.v2.1,Things are getting rough. Security is going after on-chain mixing services.
tumbler.v2.2,They flagged a few big addresses and traced them back to my node.
tumbler.v2.3,"If the mixer goes down for a few days, don't panic. Coins inside won't be lost."
tumbler.v3.1,They shut my node down. Sooner or later they'll find where I live.
tumbler.v3.2,I've got a key drive with the mixer's signing keys on it.
tumbler.v3.3,"If Security gets it, they can rebuild every user's history. Yours too."
tumbler.v3.ask,Can you hide it for a few days?
tumbler.v3.choice.hide,[Take the drive and hide it]
tumbler.v3.choice.report,"[Agree, then tip off Security]"
tumbler.v3.choice.sell,[Take the drive and sell it to the black market]
tumbler.v3.thanks1,Thanks. I'll come back for it in a few days.
tumbler.v3.thanks2,"Don't leave it lying around. If a search turns it up, we're both done."
tumbler.v3.report1,...Okay. I'll come by later.
tumbler.v4.back.1,I'm here for the drive.
tumbler.v4.back.2,The node's moved somewhere new. Security won't find it anytime soon.
tumbler.v4.back.3,Here's something for your trouble. From now on your mixer fees are half price.
tumbler.v4.lost.1,Where's the drive?
tumbler.v4.lost.2,...You lost it?
tumbler.v4.lost.3,Forget it. I'll figure something out.
tumbler.v4.sold.1,"You sold the drive to the black market, didn't you."
tumbler.v4.sold.2,"They run the mixer now. Fees doubled, and users' money could vanish any day."
tumbler.v4.sold.3,I won't forget this.
tumbler.v4.none.1,Never mind. I was never here.
item.keydrive.name,Key drive
item.keydrive.desc,"A data stick Tumbler left with you, holding the mixer's signing keys. Contraband: if a search turns it up, it goes on your record."
mixer.closed,The mixer has been shut down and takes no new deposits. Coins already inside come back as usual.
news.tumbler.sanction.desc,"Security announced the seizure of a node of an on-chain mixing service, saying it facilitated money laundering. The service is temporarily down."
news.tumbler.caught.title,Mixer operator arrested
news.tumbler.caught.desc,The mixer operator known as Tumbler was arrested in the lower levels. Security says the mixing service has been shut down for good.
news.tumbler.sold.title,Mixing service changes hands
news.tumbler.sold.desc,"Word is the signing keys of a lower-level mixing service have fallen into black-market hands, and fees went up at once. Users fear for their funds."
nightlog.tumbler.gift,Tumbler took back the key drive and left {0} CRT as thanks (sent to {1}); mixer fees halved.
gg.p1.makers,"There are two common manufacturers on the Station:\n\n - Probidia (""PB"")\n - PMD (""MD"")"
gg.p1.note,"Whoever made it, a card's value depends only on the list price of the real chip and its health: at full health it equals the list price, at zero health only {CardValueFloor:%} is left."
gg.fan.h,Fan Blades
gg.fan.0,Clean (price unchanged)
gg.fan.1,Dusty (-{CardFanDust:%})
gg.fan.2,Chipped (-{CardFanChipped:%})
gg.fin.h,Contacts
gg.fin.0,Bright (price unchanged)
gg.fin.1,Dull (-{CardFingersDark:%})
gg.fin.2,Oxidized (-{CardFingersOxidized:%})
gg.brk.h,Bracket
gg.brk.0,Intact (price unchanged)
gg.brk.1,Scratched (-{CardBracketScratch:%})
gg.seal.h,Seal
gg.seal.0,Intact (price unchanged)
gg.seal.2,Missing (-{CardSealMissing:%})
gg.wear.note,"Fan blades, contacts and bracket get worse with the nightly wear and only ever get worse; the seal is fixed. Condition also affects hashrate, wear and burnout chance."
gg.p1.body,"Graphics cards are the core of every mining rig, and the goods most often counterfeited on the used market.\nFour things show whether a card is genuine: fan count, power connector, back print and serial number. Only a card that matches its stated model on all four is genuine; any single mismatch means a counterfeit.\nA card's value depends on the model of the chip inside and its health, and every sign of wear lowers the price.\n\nThis guide provides all the knowledge needed to appraise a graphics card."
gg.p2.h,Card Models
gg.p2.body,"The model sets the fan count and the power connector. A counterfeit is a low-model chip in a high-model shell, and its performance and value follow the chip inside."
gg.tier.0,"RTX 60 / RX 70: 6-pin, one fan"
gg.tier.1,"RTX 70 / RX 80: 8-pin, two fans"
gg.tier.2,"RTX 80 / RX 800: 8-pin, three fans"
gg.tier.3,"RTX 90 / RX 900: dual 8-pin, three fans"
gg.count.h,Fan Count
gg.count.body,"The model sets the fan count: one fan on the RTX 60 and RX 70, two on the RTX 70 and RX 80, three on the RTX 80, RTX 90, RX 800 and RX 900.\nA fan count that does not match the stated model marks a counterfeit."
gg.pin.h,Power Connector
gg.pin.body,"The model also sets the power connector: 6-pin on the RTX 60 and RX 70, 8-pin on the RTX 70, RTX 80, RX 80 and RX 800, dual 8-pin on the RTX 90 and RX 900.\nA power connector that does not match the stated model marks a counterfeit."
gg.serial.body,"The serial number is on a sticker on the back, as prefix, model code, hyphen, two-digit factory code, hyphen and four-digit sequence, for example PB2-21-6251."
gg.serial.rule,"Model codes 1 to 4 stand for RTX 60 / RX 70, RTX 70 / RX 80, RTX 80 / RX 800 and RTX 90 / RX 900.\nA model code that does not match the model (the sticker belongs to the original chip), or an invalid factory code or length (a sticker added later), marks a counterfeit. The factory code only proves authenticity and does not change the price."
gg.print.note,"A card is genuine only if fan count, power connector, print and serial number all match. A counterfeit fails at least one, but may get the others right, so check every one."
gg.point.body,"Inspect with the magnifier. In the label bar, only the model row has a Point out Model button; the four rows below it (fan count, power connector, back print, serial number) are read-only, and each of the four condition rows has its own Point out button.\nPoint out a hidden condition problem and that row switches to the true state and the price drops by the difference; point out something true and the other side refuses and your reputation suffers.\nIf any of the four proof rows does not match the stated model, point out the model: the card is then ruled a counterfeit, the model reverts to the real chip, and the price is recalculated for that chip.\n\nCards brought by appraisal guild clients work the same way: pointing out problems changes the estimate until you report the correct value."
