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   "text": "Complex smart contracts involving several parties can only work if they rest on a verifiable and unhackable system, which is what blockchain technology supplies.",
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   "text": "A programmed and enforceable quantity commitment secures a reliably positive value for Bitcoin because the governing source code is fully transparent on the blockchain and continuously verifiable.",
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   "text": "Opportunism is engineered away in the AI-to-AI economy because agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions.",
   "abstract": "Opportunism is engineered away: agents have no endogenous psychological motives for guile and operate under mathematically specified, cryptographically verifiable objective functions",
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