Bringing Programmability to Bitcoin | Pantera
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Bringing Programmability to Bitcoin | Pantera
Blockchains are not simply about money. The modern-day alchemists who minted Bitcoin and other digital assets have animated a generation of technologists to reimagine how the financial and commercial world operates. The vision that these technologists aim to bring to fruition is not just about payment systems and other financial instruments. Large ... See more
Aaron Wright • The Rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: Opportunities and Challenges · Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy
As crypto matures, we should expect these composable smart contract building blocks to start getting used outside of the crypto community. Eventually, developers will be able to add just one line of code to add a full decentralized marketplace to a video game, or another line of code to allow merchants in their ecommerce store to earn interest on t... See more
Linda Xie • Composability is Innovation - a16z crypto
In our view, everything discussed so far is a special case of a profound general shift that Bitcoin is slowly but surely bringing to global energy markets: It allows the physical infrastructure for transporting either generated electricity or energy dense fuels to be extended over the internet. It augments a physical network with a digital one.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Programmable securities, money streaming, and a global buyer of energy of last resort are tremendously exciting. Their growing promise is evidence that Bitcoin is, “not just a digital rock,” to cite an expression frequently utilized by Elizabeth Stark.