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CH07: tone down beyond-bitcoin applications

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Bitcoin can do things beyond money, but (as other text in the chapter
notes) this can be controversial.  Let's not oversell those other uses
here only to throw shade on them later.
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(nonpayment data)")))((("nonpayment data")))((("blockchain (the)",
"nonpayment data recording")))((("digital notary services")))Bitcoin's
distributed and timestamped ledger, the blockchain, has potential uses
far beyond payments. Many developers have tried to use the transaction
beyond payments. Many developers have tried to use the transaction
scripting language to take advantage of the security and resilience of
the system for applications such as digital notary services, stock
certificates, and smart contracts. Early attempts to use bitcoin's
the system for applications such as digital notary services
and smart contracts. Early attempts to use bitcoin's
script language for these purposes involved creating transaction outputs
that recorded data on the blockchain; for example, to record a digital
fingerprint of a file in such a way that anyone could establish