I’m finally getting to review a book that isn’t about Sam Bankman-Fried or Bitcoin erotica.

Instead, it’s my take on the first crypto novel that I’ve come across — and a thriller no less, which is close to my favorite genre of all (the mystery, of course).

Ari Juels’ The Oracle asks the question: What would happen if a smart contract could kill someone? And as a Cornell Tech computer science professor and chief scientist at Chainlink Labs, Juels definitely has the technological chops to explore how that could realistically happen. (Especially since he co-authored a paper on criminal smart contracts back in 2016).

But more importantly, Juels has the imagination to consider…

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