[otakucode]

Everyone assumes that the banking industry and the financial industry in general somehow have a magic touch when it comes to technology. All those digital balance sheets, they're pristine. All those networks, they're unpenetrated. All those databases, they're filled with the purest divine truth.

And if anyone ever figures out that isn't the way it is, and that the numbers are not representative of anything of substance? If nations refuse to honor the claimed 'transfers' done through these rickety electronic systems? It would make for an interesting few days.