Nobel laureate: smart contracts Ethereum useless and vulnerable
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In early may, a prominent economist and Professor at new York University's Nouriel Roubini that all the talk about decentralized digital money— "just nonsense", and the blockchain is a "publicized an Excel spreadsheet". Now a critic of cryptocurrencies found a new target — smart contracts Ethereum platform. About it writes .
thethe Danger of smart contracts
According to the analyst, one of the first who predicted the global economic crisis of 2008, the platform Ethereum just seems decentralized. In fact it is vulnerable to manipulation by influential insiders.
Smart contracts are neither clever nor contracts. They consist entirely of failures — 100 errors in 1000 pages of code and not considered by the courts — so they cannot be called contracts. The only court which works with this technology — fragmented members of the crypto community that takes a decision about the next fork.
the statement of the economist on the number of errors in the smart contracts Ethereum hyperbolic, but the problem really is, the newspaper notes. Earlier, Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee stated that the programming language for smart contracts Ethereum Solidity is "a haven for hackers" because of its complexity.
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