Cryptocurrency has a bug problem.
Investors, startups and established players are all scrambling to build a future of “decentralized finance” — one in which transactions, contracts and assets can all be stored on encrypted public blockchains.
A blockchain is a type of distributed ledger, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. But this technology has applications well beyond powering cryptocurrencies. Take smart contracts, for example. A smart contract is an agreement between two parties that is recorded in a distributed ledger and executes automatically when certain pre-agreed conditions are met.
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