Red team blues - a story only made possible by misunderstanding Bitcoin

I am currently enjoying " Red team Blues " by Cory Doctorow ( Funny side note: for a long time I thought his name was made up. It's not.) Anyway, Red Team Blues describes a modern day whodunit investigation by the protagonist Martin Hench. In the story, a cryptographic backdoor is programmed into a fictional cryptocurrency called Trustcoin. This backdoor seems to fall into the wrong hands and…