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to speculate on the possible organization of the market for smart contract
creation.)</p>
<p>The "$-Issuer" and the "Stock-Issuer" transforms
- the movement of pieces into a transfer of <i>third-party-assayable electronic
- rights</i>, or <i>erights</i>. A $-Issuer, or more conventionally a bank,
- is effectively a title company for money. For money on record at the bank,
- the rights to the money changes hands by the transfer of quantity between
- accounts -- shown above as <i>purses</i> within the issuers. When Alice
- places the gold bar on the board, her computer, the $-Issuer, and the
- contract host engage in a three-way cryptographic transaction that bring
- about the transfer of title, at the $-Issuer, of that much money from
- Alice to the contract host. An honest contract host would consider this
- money to be only a piece on the board, which can be picked up (transfered
+ the movement of pieces into a transfer of <i>third-party-assayable transferable
+ electronic rights</i>, or <i>erights</i>. A $-Issuer, or more conventionally
+ a bank, is effectively a title company for money. For money on record
+ at the bank, the rights to the money changes hands by the transfer of
+ quantity between accounts -- shown above as <i>purses</i> within the issuers.
+ When Alice places the gold bar on the board, her computer, the $-Issuer,
+ and the contract host engage in a three-way cryptographic transaction
+ that bring about the transfer of title, at the $-Issuer, of that much
+ money from Alice to the contract host. An honest contract host would consider
+ this money to be only a piece on the board, which can be picked up (transfered
to the possession of a player) according to whatever may be the rules
of the game. We refer to this as <i>oblivious escrow</i> -- the contract
host, merely by running the contract, ensures that rights in escrow can