Bitcoin was invented to replace banks, but underlying technology - blockchain – proved it could replace almost any intermediary. It did not stop there; now that we had digital money, we could do ...

Cointelegraph's Jackson DuMont tackles smart contracts in the latest episode of Cryptopedia. He explains how smart contracts work from the basics and provides examples of how they can be utilized in ...

Smart contracts are the worker bees of blockchain technology. Most of the programs that run on blockchains–ranging from financial exchanges to games–are decentralized applications (dapps) that are ...

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Smart contracts are programs written on the blockchain that self-execute when certain conditions are met. They use code to define and enforce the rules of the contract. Once a smart contract is ...

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One question that a substantial portion of people asked when Ethereum was launched was “Why to develop Ethereum when we already had Bitcoin for the transfer of payments?” Well, Blockchain is a ...

You have probably heard that blockchain technology and "smart contracts" are going to revolutionize our lives. But there’s a problem: before smart contracts can do anything really useful, they need a ...

When it comes to cryptocurrencies and blockchains, there's a lot of talk about smart contracts. But what are they, exactly? The overnight ascension of cryptocurrencies has thrust an entirely new ...