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Card VII-8: NICK SZABO – Typical computers are computational etch-a-sketch, while blockchains are computational amber.

Series VII · Card 8 of 21 · THE RABBIT HOLE

Typical computers are computational etch-a-sketch, while blockchains are computational amber.

NICK SZABO · UNENUMERATED · 2017

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Source

“Money, blockchains, and social scalability”, Unenumerated blog, February 2017

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About the author

Computer scientist, legal scholar, and one of the key intellectual precursors to Bitcoin. Created Bit Gold and coined the term “smart contracts”.

The question on the back

What do you prefer: things that can change or things that last forever?