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Re:One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble by keymone on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:12AM (#21461164)
Bitcoin was literally designed with contracts (programs deciding transactions) in mind from its inception. Ethereum is just script kiddies piling JavaScript onto blockchain and calling it the greatest invention in human history.
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Re:One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble by AlexCoventry on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:21PM (#21467470)
They're an afterthought in Bitcoin. Its main goal was to be a decentralized payments system.
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Re:One Tether Trader Didn't Cause the Bitcoin Bubble by grubles on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:29PM (#21469855)
They're absolutely not an afterthought in Bitcoin, and in fact some of the functionality of Bitcoin Script was disabled to prevent some of the disasters that have occurred due to poor engineering decisions in Ethereum.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

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