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Re:Crypto is an unproductive bubble by dmitriid on Saturday March 19, 2022 @01:19AM (#30731313)
"Smart contracts" are neither smart nor are they contracts.

It's a piece of code written in an esoteric programming language that even people who are experts in have trouble understanding and spotting errors in.

Compared to actual contracts which are human readable.

Re:Crypto is an unproductive bubble by q-big on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:35PM (#30736393)
> Compared to actual contracts which are human readable.

People are just more used to and exposed to texts written in, say, Englisch in comparison to code written in, say, Solidity.

Re:Crypto is an unproductive bubble by dmitriid on Sunday March 20, 2022 @05:53AM (#30741399)
There's no "just". People will always be "more used" to human languages than to programming languages (especially esoteric ones).

Moreover, human languages will always be more simple at expressing human interactions than programming languages. "You pay me 2.5% of the agreed sum on the 25th of each month" will always be infinitely more understandable to an average human than whatever the implementation of that would be in Soldity.