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> smart contracts are a different think, unaddressed here

Let me address this, then:

- they are not smart

- they are not contracts

- they are programs written in esoteric programming languages running on world's slowest and most inefficient VM

- due to esoteric nature their own authors cannot find trivial bugs in their implementations that are exploited at scale which would make any real platform nonviable

- cannot be updated or reverted because blockchain

- have literally no use outside the virtual imaginary world of crypto

- have zero legal standing, and cannot be enforced

- in every single case would be more efficient and better served by Visual Basic running on a single Raspberry Pi from a sqlite database.

parent dmitriid 4 years ago

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