Any way to employ smart contracts without using Ethereum is fine by me.
Also keep an eye out on Zano and the SCRT Network. I look forward to them for my ghost business.
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Not sure if I trust Zano because of it's unquantifiable premine from Boolberry swap + PoS = effectively a hidden dev tax if so. But we will never know.
Also, with Zano you can only create tokens centralized to the creator and must trust them with issuance.
Beam would be closer to a private Ethereum and more preferable since it actually has programmability and smart contracts.
I've heard of SCRT network but don't know much about it.