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CH07: drop ref to "programmable money"

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I think this could be confusing.  It's not so much that the money is
programmable---in Bitcoin, your money won't go out and take actions on
its own based on programming.  Instead, Bitcoin allows contracts to be
enforced by deterministic full nodes rather than a more arbitrary justice
system.
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@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ conditions for spending and how those conditions can be satisfied.
((("programmable money")))Bitcoin transaction validation is not based on
a static pattern, but instead is achieved through the execution of a
scripting language. This language allows for a nearly infinite variety
of conditions to be expressed. This is how bitcoin gets the power of
"programmable money."
of conditions to be expressed.
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