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Re:Smart contracts on Bitcoin by rglullis on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:13PM (#25785069)
Blockchain is just the tech to get consensus, consensus built by a community can change and does not have to be immutable.

So no, not a problem unless you are a fundamentalist.

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Re:Smart contracts on Bitcoin by gruez on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:23PM (#25785164)
Why bother with an "immutable" ledger then? Why not just have people vote on what the current state of the network?
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Re:Smart contracts on Bitcoin by rglullis on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:19PM (#25785668)
How do you get people to vote in a way that actually decentralized and trustless? IOW, how do you build consensus about what the total vote count is?
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