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Smart Contracts: Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks - Szabo #29

Open carchrae opened 6 years ago

carchrae commented 6 years ago

Why This is Interesting

This is the original paper that described smart contracts. Lots of good stuff in here, some of which seems to have been forgotten.

Link to Paper(s)

Smart Contracts: Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks By NICK SZABO. First Monday, Volume 2, Number 9 - 1 September 1997 http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469

Additional Resources (optional)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract#History - the cliff notes