Also on the series Earth Final Conflict called the "Global Link" or sometimes simply "Global"

Posts two and three in this thread: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/221720-Your-Dream...)

show it partly and fully opened

Also people bought Tek (a digital drug) by connecting two USB-like devices to transfer credits which I assume going by the context are like cash not credit or debit cards. That's very similar to what Bitcoin is attempting, I wonder if the mysterious creator of Bitcoin was a fan of TekWar?