This episode, we sit down with james prestwich to explore what smart contracts are. A smart contract allows the performance of credible transactions without a third party. In practice, is an agreement between humans. Smart contracts are ways that we can automate some or all of that. And ihofuly, you're lle smarter about the history and what this thing is after this episode.
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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