Rusty Russell on Nostr: Programmable money was meant to allow you to specify arbitrary things on your funds ...
Programmable money was meant to allow you to specify arbitrary things on your funds in a way that was binding.
I'm struggling to find Satoshi's statement on systems which can't be interfered with "no matter how good the intentions", but it applies here. I suggest you take some solace in the trade-off: that while you can't stop people from doing bad things, bad people can't stop you from doing good things, either!
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