Smart contracts are interesting enough and powerful enough that i spend 80 % of my waking life writing them. And then i think i dream about them most nights too. But what's a smart contract dream like? Very boring. Despite the issues so far, o is going to be extremely powerful and extremely important going forward. It's all of these properties that we always talk about with bok cain, transparent, traceable, whatever, whatever. We haven't really figured it out yet, but it feels like it has incredible potential.
In this episode, we dig into what the term smart contract means with our guest James Prestwich. First introduced in 1994 by Nick Szabo, smart contracts have inspired whole ecosystems of companies and projects to start thinking about blockchain in much bigger terms.
We explore what the term 'smart contract' means, where it comes from, some use cases and some of the new challenges that come along with it.
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