Doctor Strange
Warning : SPOILERS for unknown # 8Marvel’sDoctor Strangehas fight interdimensional unknown and otherworldly magician , but now his most life-threatening enemy is revealed : cryptocurrency . Stephen Strange may be a wiz surgeon , but he has trivial patience for mod engineering - not because he does not realize it , but because he has very little use for it during his day - to - day living as the Sorcerer Supreme . But inStrange # 8 , Marvel explains why the blockchain is Strange ’s impuissance .
In current cartoon strip persistence , Doctor Strange is dead . The Sorcerer Supreme was mutilate during theDeath of Doctor Strangeevent , killed by Baron Mordo . Despite the efforts of his magical allies , Strange croak permanently - but Death had other plans for the Sorcerer Supreme , and is using him for her own ends . Meanwhile , Clea seeks to get Strange back to the land of the living , and has also grant herself the title of Sorcerer Supreme ( angering others who believed they were more worthy of the position , like Doctor Doom ) .
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InStrange # 8 , written by Jed MacKay with graphics by Stefano Landini , the series flashes back to a moment in Doctor Strange ’s lifespan ; Director Peters , in accusation ofW.A.N.D. ( a magic equivalent of SHIELD ) explain the villain ’s plan . Tibetan petition wheels act upon by placing a coil of prayers inside a wooden wheel ( and by spinning the steering wheel , it is think one gain the same effect as saying the prayers out loudly ) . The director then turns to cryptocurrency . “What would happen if a big - scale leaf cryptocurrency being mine across the world was infect with the codification for a spell formula , integrating that import into its routines?“Strange realize the danger straight off : the sheer abundance of prayer bicycle could multiply the spell ’s gist exponentially : transforming average the great unwashed into undead behemoth .
Doctor Strange Fights The Blockchain In Marvel Comics
Just a few issues ago , Strange ’s married woman Clea found the Blasphemy Cartel ’s stashof secret arm : racks upon wrack of computer servers . She is even more techno - phobic than Strange , and classify the lot of them to the cellar of the Sanctum Sanctorum . This is what the Blasphemy Cartel were planning during this entire run : coalesce the magical with the technical to create their own method to control others . In this common sense , Doctor Strange and Clea did not see the issue until it was almost too late .
Understanding cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology is hard enough for the technologically literate . It is , presumptively , well more hard for the likes of sorcerous users such as Strange and Clea . Doctor Strangeis used todealing with the likes of Dormammuand Baron Mordo , but ripe technology like the blockchain is patently a bridge too far .
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