The Midas Protocol
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In 1983, brilliant Unalco researcher Dr. Lawrence Bingham and his wife are murdered, and Bingham’s greatest...
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Addison Moore is a 25-year-old Executive Corporate Communications Specialist at Unalco World Headquarters in 1989. Beautiful, intelligent, and intensely ambitious, she is steadily climbing the corporate ladder and already moves comfortably among senior executives, consultants, and important corporate guests. She helps coordinate high-profile events such as Unalco’s Global Communicators Conference and has learned that presentation, preparation, and self-control are essential to succeeding in the executive world.
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Read more: Character Sketch: Addison Moore In The Midas Protocol
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Chapter 1 of The Midas Protocol begins with a man who has just accomplished the impossible and already suspects that it may cost him his life.
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Read more: Chapter Profile: Midas Protocol - Chapter 1 - “The Gold Box”
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Chapter 2 of The Midas Protocol is where the major pieces of the series begin quietly moving onto the same corporate chessboard.
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Read more: Chapter File: — Midas Protocol - Chapter 2 “Misbegotten Fortune”
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Before the Gold Box, before the Axiom, before the impossible machinery of The Midas Files fully reveals itself, Hank Raglan’s life changes because of an unfinished alloy.
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Read more: Lore: Evium - The "Unfinished Alloy" in The Midas Protocol
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Last night was supposed to be the night. I was finally going to sit down in front of a camera and perform my first live reading from The Midas Protocol. Nothing elaborate. Nothing professionally produced. Just me, Chapter One, and whoever happened to wander into the livestream.
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Read more: The Scratching Post: My First Livestream Got Put on a Cooling-Off Period
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Leonardo DiCaprio gives everything he has, but Martin Scorsese’s Wall Street epic feels less like a revelation than a familiar gangster movie wearing expensive loafers.
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Read more: Cool Filmz: Wolf of Wall Street — A Great Movie or Scorsese Playing an Old Hand?
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AI is often described as if it lives somewhere abstract. It lives in the cloud. It lives in the model. It lives in the algorithm. It lives in the strange little box where we type a question and wait for the machine to answer back.
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Read more: Tech Gnosis: The Ghost in the Machine Needs a Substation
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The Scratching Post
The Scratching Post is Matt De Reno’s personal corner of Scratch Magazine, featuring author updates, creative reflections, Pittsburgh-rooted storytelling, house-project avoidance, writing life, book news, and friendly notes from the world behind The Midas Files.
Bingham's Notebook
Bingham’s Notebook explores the lore, characters, artifacts, hidden history, timelines, and behind-the-scenes mythology of The Midas Files, Matt De Reno’s Pittsburgh-rooted sci-fi thriller series about ancient power, impossible technology, and dangerous secrets.
Cool Filmz
Cool Filmz is Scratch Magazine’s movie and TV room, featuring essays, reviews, lookbacks, and story-minded reflections on sci-fi, thrillers, action classics, pop culture, character arcs, genre storytelling, and the films that shaped Matt De Reno’s imagination.
The Funny Newz
The Funny Newz is Scratch Magazine’s humor section, featuring fake headlines, sci-fi satire, UFO nonsense, cryptid chaos, ancient-alien absurdity, local parody, bad technology, and ridiculous reports from a universe that probably should not be trusted with advanced tools.
Quantum Soup
Quantum Soup explores strange science, future technology, space, AI, cybersecurity, fragile systems, hidden knowledge, and real-world ideas that sound like they escaped from a sci-fi thriller — all through the curious lens of Scratch Magazine.