Father of Smart Contracts Reflects on the Decentralized Experiments Before Bitcoin's Birth Nick Szabo, "father of smart contracts," recalled at a 2021 Bitcoin conference that the 1995 Extropy magazine discussed concepts like virtual banks and a digital currency called

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