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by 67868018 1919 days ago
Smart contracts on Ethereum blockchain... force them to set a date to pay you and go public. They can't back out.

Going to need a lot of work in the next few years to make something like this viable, but ETH could make it possible
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aasasd 1919 days ago
Are you saying that Eth can somehow withhold info until a future time when it automatically becomes public? How would that work?
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67868018 1916 days ago
Ethereum has a Turing complete programming language inside
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aasasd 1914 days ago
Yeah so? Think about it. How do you make a blob of data unreadable by people on Thursday but readable on Friday? You can't do it without a trusted third-party.

If Eth has a solution for this, it would mean it basically solves trust in general, which is a persistent pain in all of infosec.

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