sarah jeong

@vogon you mean like ethereum? are you capable of explaining ethereum to me?

@sarahjeong uh let me read the white paper and I'll get back to you

@sarahjeong OK so at a glance, ethereum looks like bitcoin, but with Script (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script ) replaced with a general-purpose VM --

@sarahjeong -- which can be used to execute arbitrary operations on the blockchain, and charges tx fees per-instruction

@sarahjeong so yeah it's basically bitcoin + more logically-complex outputs, which is exactly what you'd want out of a contract protocol

@vogon I hope to see more of these types of things proliferate. Hmmm.

@sarahjeong same; I think a public, electronic currency is a thing we really need

@vogon I don’t know about *need*, but if it actually took off, whooooooooa