Stone Transactions Are Hard  This page is about transactions in
a "StoneSociety." (See that page for a description of what a
StoneSociety is.)  If you were thinking of
TransactionProcessing, TwoPhaseCommit, or other automated
tracking of "units of work," this is not the right page.  Four
apparent problems of transactions are:    1. Relative weight of
Stones    2. Expiration of stones    3. Stones map to people,
not resources.    4. Six degrees of separation.  Relative weight
of Stones  There are two ways that stones have value. Either
they are a relative amount of the value of the originating
society, or, in the case of sub or contextual societies, the
value of their stones is determined by the stones that have been
allocated to the Auction that generated it.  Therefore if you
are trying to figure out the weight of a given stone, you must
value the originating society or, worse, you have to calculate
the relative value of any parent societies' originating auctions
to determine the fractional value of a contex