Hello ZmnSCPxj

I like the proposal because it generalizes escrow type mechanisms and I think 
it's a useful train of thought for distributed exchanges.

However, consider the situation where a group of participants are playing 
poker. One participant loses all their funds and decides to present to the 
escrow the contract+an old contract state+a signed message following the 
contract rules (eg. an independently signed cashing out message). How would the 
escrow know that the contract state is old and the operation is disallowed, 
without using a consensus mechanism like a blockchain?

Cheers
Ariel Lorenzo-Luaces

On Apr 3, 2019, 7:14 PM, at 7:14 PM, ZmnSCPxj via bitcoin-dev 
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>https://zmnscpxj.github.io/bitcoin/unchained.html
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>Smart contracts have traditionally been implemented as part of the
>consensus rules of some blokchain.  Often this means creating a new
>blockchain, or at least a sidechain to an existing blockchain.  This
>writeup proposes an alternative method without launching a separate
>blockchain or sidechain, while achieving security similar to federated
>sidechains and additional benefits to privacy and
>smart-contract-patching.
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