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WEB3, PLAINLY · Ep. 5

The Vending Machine

Why can a piece of code hold your money and pay you without asking anyone?

The film asks: Would you trust a machine over a cashier? · The machine / The cashier / Depends

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  1. Why can a piece of code hold your money and pay you without asking anyone?
  2. Because a smart contract is a vending machine. Coin in, rules run, snack out.
  3. No cashier decides. The rules were written once, and they run the same for everyone.
  4. Which is the gift and the danger. If the rules have a hole, the machine gives your snack to whoever finds it.
  5. Would you trust a machine over a cashier?

05). A glowing vending machine at the end of a pier at night. Coin in, the rules run (gears turn behind the glass), the snack drops. No cashier: a dark, empty kiosk beside it. Then a hole in the rules: a stranger taps a loose panel and your snack drops into his hands.

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