The Oracle

Name: The Oracle
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781945863851
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A Novel

By Ari Juels

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Fears of a weaponised 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, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Dumenil... Read More

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Fears of a weaponised 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, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Dumenil seeks his help against a bewildering threat: The Delphians, worshippers of the god Apollo, have launched a rogue program on a blockchain. It's offering a crypto bounty to assassinate a European archaeology professor.

The developer brushes off the danger until he learns the next target: himself.

Mythical antiquity collides with a near-future cyberworld as The Oracle's unassuming hero and his FBI partner race against time to dismantle the Delphians' murderous blockchain software. Theirs is a whirlwind tale of oracles ancient and modern, vanished antiquities and conjured crypto billions, cybercriminals and digital idealists—narrated by a cynical hero normally more concerned with dark chocolate than the consequences of the technologies he's pioneering. What happens when the crypto ideals of privacy and truth might cost human lives—especially your own?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781945863851

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 February 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Talos

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 498g

Pages: 304

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Ari Juels Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction

About the Author

Dr. Ari Juels is a professor at Cornell Tech in New York City and at Cornell University, and codirector of the Initiative for CryptoCurrencies and Contracts (IC3). A renowned expert on blockchains and smart contracts, he also serves as Chief Scientist at Chainlink Labs, developer of today's most widely used blockchain oracles.