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by weedking 2558 days ago
Really? https://blog.chain.link/the-power-of-smart-contracts-what-th...
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floatboth 2558 days ago
Really! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHab0dNnj4&feature=youtu.be...

Don't listen to marketing copy from the people trying to peddle you this stuff.

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root_axis 2558 days ago
Smart contracts are useless. If you want to pick a particular point out of that article to discuss I'm happy to do so but so far it looks like the same flawed reasoning that has been debunked 1000 times over on this site.
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cdiddy2 2558 days ago
Not going off the article, but if you think that 100% of smart contracts are useless, I would like to know why the uniswap is useless in your mind. Its a decentralized exchange contract for trading tokens on ethereum

https://uniswap.io/

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root_axis 2558 days ago
Decentralized exchanges are a dime a dozen and are basically ghost towns compared to the centralized exchanges.
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cdiddy2 2558 days ago
but it can be used to trade currencies not offered by centralized exchanges, in a way where you dont have to hand over any funds to risk on a centralized exchange. is useful for me at least
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