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FICTION - The Final Monopoly

FICTION - The Final Monopoly

FICTION - The Final MonopolyAlexander Reeve
Published on: 26/08/2025

Congratulations! You won, you did it, you have everything. Literally everything. Turns out unlimited growth works when there are no checks and balances to stop it. Well, for a while, right? You made The Company. The one that owns everything because you just bought everything until there was no competition. For decades you were able to just build and grow and acquire everything in the world.

Fiction
FICTION - Ringcut

FICTION - Ringcut

FICTION - RingcutKristina Warlen
Published on: 05/08/2025

Exit moved in silence through the black zone. The road beneath his boots was fractured and blistered from a century of stress fractures, chemical erosion, and neglect. Every surface held the residue of failure. Surveillance nodes blinked faintly in the walls above him. Pale red eyes stared from cracked housing. They still tracked motion and still read heat. Power to the district had been cut hours ago. The Network never really died. It idled, quiet and watchful. It waited for patterns to reestablish.

Fiction
21 Tips for Winning Short Fiction Competitions

21 Tips for Winning Short Fiction Competitions

21 Tips for Winning Short Fiction CompetitionsPhilip Charter
Published on: 29/07/2025

August 2025 will be the very first Fiction Month on Stacker News. 21 Futures has sponsored the competition, which boasts a total prize fund of 200k sats. The overall winner receives 100k sats, and ten runners up will each receive 10k sats. Read our tips on how to win here.

Culture
21 Futures Announces Strategic Partnership with Vexl

21 Futures Announces Strategic Partnership with Vexl

21 Futures Announces Strategic Partnership with VexlPhilip Charter
Published on: 23/07/2025

21 Futures and Vexl are announcing a strategic partnership to promote cypherpunk stories and non-KYC Bitcoin.

Interview
FICTION - Static Between Signals

FICTION - Static Between Signals

FICTION - Static Between SignalsAZA
Published on: 15/07/2025

Tonight, my pals are meeting to watch movies. Yup. That ancient stuff. Flickering screens. Glowing pixels in the dark. Eyes wide, and hearts racing. Sometimes laughter. Sometimes gasps. Priceless experience most people of this era never felt. Not that they’d refuse—just something they haven’t even heard about.

Fiction
The Story of 21 Futures - How We Started and Where We're Going

The Story of 21 Futures - How We Started and Where We're Going

The Story of 21 Futures - How We Started and Where We're GoingPhilip Charter
Published on: 07/07/2025

The Story of 21 Futures - How we started and where we are going. Get the latest news in this update from chief editor, Philip Charter.

Interview