There are five groups of people who want smart contracts: Computer programmers who don’t have an aptitude for social or legal conventions, but do have an aptitude for programming, so they’d like social and legal conventions to work a bit more like that. Anarcho-capitalists who want to replace the government with a small DOS batch file. (Particularly ones who are also in the first group.) Businesses who want to automate away dealing with customers, but still take their money. People selling you flim-flam with a thin veneer of technology on top, who have, as we’ve noted, found rich pickings in
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