If they are to
succeed — not only
as a fringe medium of exchange or speculative investment, but
as real competitors with government currencies — some new
programmers are going to have to come along and make currencies whose digital coins are created in a much different manner than the current ones.
Life
as an apprentice botmaster: the worm you wrote, or more likely bought or stole from a more skilled
programmer, has
succeeded, proliferating steadily for several days.