In the year 2050 where bitcoin has become a part and parcel of life , with market cap at hundred trillion and each bitcoin worth more than 5 million usd and the network hash rate is measured in zeta hashes. Mining is sustainable only by large multi national corporations and they also have to get a license which is auctioned by government .There are many full nodes and large mining architectures with quantum computers deployed in many places such as deep sea underground, space, inside mountains and many nodes at various locations in moon and the largest one is located at mars to serve the network.
Mysteriously the node and mining facility goes offline at mars and despite drones sent to investigate and repair those massive structures, the drones lose communication once the reach the perimeter of the facility and never return back.So in order to investigate this, the bitcoin foundation with the help of NASA, funds a man mission consisting of a private military personels and a cryptology tech expert(protagonist) to mars to explore the situation.
The location is somewhere near
Ascraeus Mons,the entire miner facility was run by synthetics and drones and when the team arrives there they are shocked to find many of them just deactivated. power has been shut down in the entire facility.The team has bought the bull, which is a large 4 wheel driven armored, armed remote device to survey the interiors of miner facility.
The team actually thinks the facility is hijacked by a group of terrorist.There is an earth based major terrorist organization operating, called
"Decentra" . All major sabotaging activities of this terrorist group includes destroying infrastructures that promote centralization of bitcoin mining..
The assumption is based on the fact that the facility is well protected by 3 cannons which fires pulse of molten metal across any objects that come near the facility, its called the TAC cannon. This technology is time tested and used as a primary defence in both home and off world bitcoin mining facilities.Since the mining facility went offline without any hostile encounters, it is believed that the terrorist group Decentra has somehow hacked into the independent security systems of the facility there and have disabled the tac cannon.
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