Hi! Over the next month I'm doing a one-a-day blog post series till Christmas, and I think some of the posts might be appropriate for discussion here. Unfortunately I forgot to start the calendar series syndicated here too... The first few posts are less bitcoin development related and philosophical, so I think we could skip them and start around Day 6 and I'll post the rest up to Day 10 here today (and do every day starting tomorrow). You can see an archive of all posts at https://rubin.io/archive/. Every post will have [Bitcoin Advent Calendar] if you wish to filter it :(. --------------------------------- Here's the day 6 post: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2021/12/03/advent-6/, the topic is why smart contracts (in extended form) may be a critical precursor to securing Bitcoin's future rather than something we should do after making the base layer more robust. Cheers, Jeremy Rubin -- @JeremyRubin