Satoshi originally created fully programmable money: a little programming language attached to each coin! But it was buggy and had to be disabled :(

We've pushed what's left as about as far as it can go, but rebuilding it (without the bugs!) is a lot of work. Still, someone had to try, right?

As to what it can do, there are a lot of technical answers. But the real answer is: *whatever people dream of in the future*. When we design a new computer chip, most of the software it will run *doesn't exist yet*, so we simply build it as powerful and flexible as we can.

This is the promise of programmable money: you can control your coins without requiring my approval, or even my understanding. And I want that in the world!

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