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They are neither smart, nor contracts. They are pieces of code written in an esoteric language running in world's most inefficient and expensive VMs where every
by dmitriid 4y ago
They are neither smart, nor contracts. They are pieces of code written in an esoteric language running in world's most inefficient and expensive VMs where every single operation is billed to the user.
- latchkey 4y agoOh yea, that's definitely the end of the world and can never be improved upon. https://ewasm.readthedocs.io/en/mkdocs/ https://ewasm.readthedocs.io/en/mkdocs/
- pcthrowaway 4y ago> They are neither smart Well certainly not the way I write them. Anyway, this is like arguing a lazy susan is neither lazy, nor involves anyone named Susan. If you know what "smart contracts" as a phrase refers to, I don't understand why you keep bringing this up on HN. We're intelligent enough here to discern that "smart contracts" isn't referring to sentient documents
- dmitriid 4y agoAh yes. "We're intelligent enough" in a subthread that starts with "smart contracts make [distributed computing and whatever else] possible".