Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Hi Jeremy, > Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, the topic is why smart contracts (in extended form) may be a critical precursor to securing Bitcoin's future rather than something we should do after making the base layer more robust. There are few comparisons in

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Good morning Jeremy, > > ## Why would a "Smart" contract be "Smart"? > > > > A "smart" contract is simply one that somehow self-enforces rather than > > requires a third party to enforce it. > > It is "smart" because its execution is done automatically. > > There are no automatic executing

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

-- @JeremyRubin Hi! On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 4:33 PM ZmnSCPxj wrote: > Good morning Jeremy, > > > > > Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, > the topic is why smart contracts (in extended form)

Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Good morning Jeremy, > > Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, the > topic is why smart contracts (in extended form) may be a critical precursor > to securing Bitcoin's future rather than something we should do after making > the base layer more robust. *This*

[bitcoin-dev] [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] What's Smart about Smart Contracts

Hi! Over the next month I'm doing a one-a-day blog post series till Christmas, and I think some of the posts might be appropriate for discussion here. Unfortunately I forgot to start the calendar series syndicated here too... The first few posts are less bitcoin development related and