From Smalltalk to smart contracts, reflecting on 50 years of programming
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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The Importance of Decentralized Consensus Based Ledges
The gold standard of blockchains is multiple machines in multiple jurisdictions, cooperating to achieve state information. So Bitcoin was the first blockchain that did this. And so smart contract because it's software that's orchestrating certain kinds of relationship between third parties but it is operated on multiple different machines. That executes code with a level of integrity that does not exist anywhere else.
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