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Explain Ethereum like I'm five (dev.to)
19 points by bhalp1 on July 30, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



You put your money in a ""smart" contract." You discover there was a bug and all your money has been moved to a "better" programmer. You contemplate why they didn't give you an environment harder to make "safe" programs in.

This is has some nice language theory stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4p0gq3/why_turingcompl...

This is why you might prefer bitcoin to ethereum if you're just value routing: https://medium.com/@richardheartauthor/9-reasons-you-should-...




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