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Crypto Technology Landscape - Silk. BITNATION - Governance 2.0. Smart Property. Smart property is property whose ownership is controlled via the Bitcoin block chain, using contracts. Examples could include physical property such as cars, phones or houses. Smart property also includes non-physical property like shares in a company or access rights to a remote computer. Making property smart allows it to be traded with radically less trust. This reduces fraud, mediation fees and allows trades to take place that otherwise would never have happened. For example, it allows strangers to loan you money over the internet taking your smart property as collateral, which should make lending more competitive and thus credit cheaper. Smart property was first proposed by Nick Szabo in his 1997 paper, "The idea of smart contracts".

Background Primitive forms of smart property are already common - if you own a car, it probably comes with an immobilizer. Although these are victories for cryptography, the potential of cryptographically activated property has not been fully explored. Colored Coins | A simple explanation of Bitcoin “Sidechains” | Richard Gendal Brown. Could sidechains be the enabler of “semi-decentralised” Bitcoin products and services? An important paper was published this week: If you’ve followed Bitcoin for any time, you’ll know this is a seriously eminent group of authors It describes a way to build “pegged sidechains”. Sidechains themselves are not new – the idea, and how to build them, has been discussed for some time and the key breakthrough was outlined earlier in the year. But this paper gives more detail on the concept and has attracted a lot of comment. But what are they? And why should anybody care?

A mental model for Bitcoin The key to understanding most innovations in the Bitcoin space is to make sure you have the right mental model for how Bitcoin itself works. To help with this, I came up with an analogy for Bitcoin earlier in the year, based on thinking of Bitcoin “unspent transaction outputs” as parcels of land.

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