ARCADE OBITUARY // COIN: $GAS
We made a cemetery for gas fees, then charged gas to bury gas.
Interring fees forever.
CURRENT READOUT
LAST DROP DETECTED: 00:00:00
Contract not live. No address exists yet, the plot is being dug.
FIG. 01, INTAKE
Closed Casket Fees
No open tabs. No peeking. The can stays shut, the bill stays paid, the punchline is sealed. Nobody gets to see what the fee actually cost, that's the whole service.
CLOSED CASKET FEESFIG. 02, READOUT
Status
LIVE FEED
LAST DROP DETECTED: 00:00:00
Press Pay Respects up top. One pixel-drop falls, the screen catches scanlines, and this line goes quiet for three seconds before it starts counting the leak again.
FIG. 03, SURVEY MAP
Grave Plots
- PLOT-01Pump Row, neat stones, neon halos, all former fill-ups now forever quiet.
- PLOT-02Mempool Mound, a lumpy hill of stalled transactions and bad tempers.
- PLOT-03Burner's Pit, hot, hungry, and somehow still broke.
FIG. 04, CORONER'S NOTE
Cause of Death
CAUSECongestion
DETAILChoked on its own line
NOTEPallbearers were late; fees weren't
FIG. 05, LAST RITES
Pay Respects
Press the button up top: one press, one pixel-drop off the nozzle, a ripple of scanlines, three beats of silence, then the arcade hums back on and starts counting the leak again.
↑ THE BUTTON IS ABOVE. THE GRAVEYARD WAITS.