smart contracts

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/30/a-concurrent-perspective-on-smart-contracts/Central insight: “… smart contracts need to deal with concurrent execution.” “Accounts using smart contracts in a blockchain are like threads using concurrent objects in shared memory” blockchain ~ shared memory accessible by many parties smart contract ~ concurrent

https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/02/23/making-smart-contracts-smarter/What’s a smart contract? a 160-bit identifier, code is on blockchain invoked by sending transactions to contract address e.g. blockchain accepts transaction and if specified recipient is the contract address, then all participants on