• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    I’m at friend of friend of friend level with one of the organizers.

    Pretty much anything in the SF area has an effort to shunt cryptocurrencies into it whether or not it makes any sense. This feels like one of those things

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      Hard to get a solid sense with a lot of projects, until you meet the actual people involved and get a clearer sense of where their focus and values are, and how well they’ve worked out the things they’re talking about. Also, smart contracts ≠ cryptocurrency, though it’s an understandably unsavory association. :-)

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        Yeah, Ethereum kind of tied the two together in my mind.

        IMHO smart contracts are generally high-risk due to their adjudication system being code rather than people