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    1. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 14 Oct 2018
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      Nick Szabo  🔑 Retweeted Timón

      "Smart contract" is a very useful concept & phrase. "Smart" as in "smart phone" (shorthand for computerized phone), "contract" meaning it does some important things we previously relied on contracts to do for our deals, especially controlling assets & incentivizing performance.https://twitter.com/timoncc/status/1051420695488552960 …

      Nick Szabo  🔑 added,

      Timón @timoncc
      Replying to @BitcoinErrorLog @VitalikButerin and 6 others
      I find atomic swaps ir lightning payment channels pretty smart, and quite similar to a traditional contract, just with no law or judge beyond the blockchain's.
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    2. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 14 Oct 2018
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      That said, if your dApp/persistent script doesn't control assets or, short of invoking traditional law, incentivize performance, it's not a smart contract and you should call it something else.

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    3. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 14 Oct 2018
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      Worrying about whether a smart contract is "legally enforceable" reflects a profound misunderstanding. The main relation of smart Ks to traditional courts is that smart Ks control burden of lawsuit. If "possession is 90% of the law", then a good smart K may be "99% of the law".

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    4. CleanApp‏ @CleanApp 14 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4

      It shows a profound misunderstanding of what? Also not clear how Rothbardian property law/theory analogies to “9/10ths” presumptions in property disputes are apposite here? Please explain/clarify.

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    5.  ☣️ tmornini [ ⚡️/Bitcoin ⩬ TCP/IP]‏ @tmornini 14 Oct 2018
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      I think his meaning is quite clear: Since smart contracts automatically execute, the liability of legal non-enforceability is overbalanced by their inherent avoidance the legal system to as high a degree as possible.

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    6. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 14 Oct 2018
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      Indeed, there are many contexts e.g. cross-border financial deals between individuals, in which the costs of legal recourse are usually prohibitive -- the burden of lawsuit outweighs the ex ante (and often even ex-post) benefit of its use to incentivize performance.

      4 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
    7.  ☠l̶̫͚̍̃͊́͐e̷̛̊́x̸-̴́̿n̷̛̜̣̥͛̋͛̓ǒ̶̾̿̒͂̈́̍d̸͛̔̀̽ë̵́ ☠‏ @lex_node 14 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @NickSzabo4 @tmornini @CleanApp

      Very true. Not to mention the biggest 'transaction cost' of all--which is that when two parties sufficiently distrust one or more of the applicable legal systems, the 'transaction' simply might never occur at all. Trust-minned escrows could seal deals that otherwise wouldn't go.

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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 14 Oct 2018
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      Replying to @lex_node @tmornini @CleanApp

      Indeed, cross-border financial transactions between nearly all individuals are extremely rare, but have IMHO vast potential if their performance could be efficiently incentivized.

      9:03 PM - 14 Oct 2018
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        2. CleanApp‏ @CleanApp 14 Oct 2018
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          Replying to @NickSzabo4 @lex_node @tmornini

          The question isn’t whether there’s vast potential. The question is whether “smart contract” & “smart property” terminology are the best tactical/strategic choices for global scaling.

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        3. Tilen Cuk‏ @t_cuk 15 Oct 2018
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          While law is territorial (&based on outdated categories like person&object),thequestion is how to allowpeople to transact in manners they want in a de-territorialized,depersonalized world with hardlyanydistinctions between persons,objects&where clear identification is difficult.

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