From a1d7bd1ecf85a8e0ce21d016717d89f02cb3976d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Harding" Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:08:49 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] CH07: drop ref to "programmable money" 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. --- chapters/authorization-authentication.adoc | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapters/authorization-authentication.adoc b/chapters/authorization-authentication.adoc index fec246fd..b5c4e35c 100644 --- a/chapters/authorization-authentication.adoc +++ b/chapters/authorization-authentication.adoc @@ -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. ==== ==== Turing Incompleteness