
The smart contracts minefield
Dippy Singh
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From CDR’s Tech Issue: Lauded for their efficiency, transparency and rapidity, smart contracts are fast becoming a popular commercial option. But there is a not-so-clever side to these cyber pacts.
First conceptualised by computer scientist Nick Szabo in 1994 – over a decade before the technology was created to make them a reality – smart contracts appear, on the surface, to be a straightforward concept.
Coded and stored on blockchain platforms, these self-executing agreements a
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ALP NG & Co Arbitration Blockchain CDR Tech Issue Construction Harris Sliwoski Lex Cryptographia Litigation Off-chain arbitration On-chain arbitration Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan Smart Contracts University of Strathclyde
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