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Guaranteed payout on triggered scenario is one of the big promises of smart contracts. * Sports betting where the contract itself pays you the winnings. * Ins
by everfree 6y ago
Guaranteed payout on triggered scenario is one of the big promises of smart contracts.
* Sports betting where the contract itself pays you the winnings.
* Insurance where everyone pools together as peers, and the contract arbitrates payouts (think simple-to-arbitrate things at first, like flight insurance or credit default swaps).
* Financial contracts like futures and options, but with arbitrary asset classes.
* Open hedge funds where someone trusted manages a large portfolio, and the contract awards them with a pre-defined bonus based on performance.
As long as an asset can be represented digitally, it can be awarded based on arbitrary, turing-complete conditions, and any programmer in the world can write those conditions with no permission from any bank and with no legal team.
Money legos.