April through August, 2017

Even though souls had been offered for sale from time to time on the Internet, buyit.com, on the hypernet, saw it’s first offer to sell a soul on April 17, 2017.  Clarence Tu Tzu Williams, as a joke, waged his soul to the highest bidder, starting at 500 adjusted new dollars.  Said Tzu, “What’s a soul anyway?  It’s somebody else’s idea of nothing.  If someone wants to pay me for nothing, I’ll take their cash, but I’d prefer euros.”  Though buyit.com never disclosed any of their financial records, it is widely believed that the soul sold for just under 20,000 a.n.d.

What followed can only be described as a craze.  Soon souls were the most offered commodity on the hypernet.  A standardized title, complete with notarization, was even developed for souls.  It is estimated that by early August, 2017, between 1.5 and 2.2 million souls were sold and bought on buyit.com.  However, in August, a young computational discovered that all of the souls had been purchased by only one individual.  That person’s name was never discovered, but it is estimated that he or she paid close to one billion adjusted new dollars, a record for any individual or corporation.  The souls were never offered for resale.

Soon after, the craze ended.