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Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.
Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, dev at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Duménil seeks his help against a chilling threat: The Delphians, worshippers of the god Apollo, have launched a rogue smart contract offering a crypto reward to assassinate a European archaeology professor.
He brushes off the danger until he learns the next target: Himself.
Mythical antiquity collides with a near-future cyberworld in “The Oracle”, a techno-thriller whose unassuming hero and his FBI partner race against time to dismantle the Delphians' murderous blockchain software. Their whirlwind journey is a tale of oracles ancient and modern, vanished antiquities and conjured crypto billions, cybercriminals and crypto idealists, and AI tools that evaluate assassins' murder claims-narrated by a cynical hero who is normally more concerned with dark chocolate than the consequences of decentralization and radical transparency. But what happens when the crypto ideals of privacy and truth cost of human lives, especially his own?
Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, dev at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Duménil seeks his help against a chilling threat: The Delphians, worshippers of the god Apollo, have launched a rogue smart contract offering a crypto reward to assassinate a European archaeology professor.
He brushes off the danger until he learns the next target: Himself.
Mythical antiquity collides with a near-future cyberworld in “The Oracle”, a techno-thriller whose unassuming hero and his FBI partner race against time to dismantle the Delphians' murderous blockchain software. Their whirlwind journey is a tale of oracles ancient and modern, vanished antiquities and conjured crypto billions, cybercriminals and crypto idealists, and AI tools that evaluate assassins' murder claims-narrated by a cynical hero who is normally more concerned with dark chocolate than the consequences of decentralization and radical transparency. But what happens when the crypto ideals of privacy and truth cost of human lives, especially his own?