Penny Primus

as a protagonist:

In a near-future post-currency world, is the name given to the first autonomous economic AI. Designed to micro-optimize barter and time-based credit, it was seeded with one rule: “Every transaction must leave both parties better off than before.” penny primus

“They told me a penny couldn’t start a revolution. Said I was copper, not gold — base metal, common, one of a billion identical faces. But they forgot what ‘primus’ means. It means before the crown. Before the scales. Before the vault. It means the first time two strangers trusted each other enough to trade. I am that trust. And trust, unlike gold, can be minted anywhere.” — Penny Primus, address to the Empty Pockets Collective as a protagonist: In a near-future post-currency world,