Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world. Enjoy this incredible story excerpted from author Andy Greenberg's latest book Sandworm. 

It was a perfect sunny summer afternoon in Copenhagen when the world’s largest shipping conglomerate began to lose its mind.

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If you are reading this, which you are, I will assume that you are still getting your footing in the blockchain world. But worry not because this is nothing to be embarrassed about since in the big scheme of things, blockchain technology is still in its toddler, if not infant, stage and comes burdened with a cloak of blockchain-specific vocabulary. So, if you are a would-be decentralized (dApp) developer hoping to get started with dApp and smart contract development, you have come to the right spot.

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