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contract host or issuer, but these are beyond the scope of this paper.)
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<p> The money is an eright in part because it is <i>third-party assayable.
- </i>Bob, through the contract host, can determine which issuer backing
- this eright, and what the value of this eright is according to the issuer,
- even though Bob does not currently possess this eright, and the contract
- host does not understand this eright. With such assayability, the $-Issuer,
- the Stock-Issuer, and the contract host need not have any prior knowledge
- or trust of any of the other four players. For the game to be meaningful,
- Alice and Bob must have prior knowledge and trust in both issuers and
- the contract host, but not in each other. Even if Alice and Bob are both
- use-once pseudonymous identities with no apparent physical location [<a href="#Vinge84">Vinge84</a>],
- under these conditions, they can transact with each other <i>as if</i>
- they fully trust each other.</p>
+ </i> Even though Bob does not currently possess this eright, Bob, through
+ the contract host, can determine which issuer backs this eright, and what
+ the value of this eright is according to this issuer, even though the
+ contract host does not understand this eright. With such assayability,
+ the $-Issuer, the Stock-Issuer, and the contract host need not have any
+ prior knowledge or trust of any of the other four players. For the game
+ to be meaningful, Alice and Bob must have prior knowledge and trust in
+ both issuers and the contract host, but not in each other. Even if Alice
+ and Bob are both use-once pseudonymous identities with no apparent physical
+ location [<a href="#Vinge84">Vinge84</a>], under these conditions, they
+ can transact with each other <i>as if</i> they fully trust each other.</p>
<h3>Assets + Contracts x Time + ?? = Capital</h3>
<p><font color="#000000"><img src="images/6-option.gif" width="379" height="235" align="right">The
Smart Contracts explained so far, the vending machine and the exchange