Author : Anthony Lusardi

When you create an application you can be reasonably assured that the program starts and stops at its runtime with fairly flexible interfaces for data persistence such as relational SQL, document stores, key value stores, time series dbs, etc. So it comes as quite a shock to people when they write smart contracts and find that they’re …

Nick Szabo’s smart contract in DAML Smart contracts are an interesting concept that were first introduced by Nick Szabo in his seminal paper on smart contracts. The idea of representing agreements as code, making programs code more legible for non-programmers, and enforcing processes and agreements is quite attractive. But have we …

This is the first article in a series of posts covering everything from privacy, to smart contracts, to portability, and more concepts related to distributed systems.