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RE: Steem Monsters Tech Talk - Part 2 - Why We Don't Need Smart Contracts
hi @yabapmatt, i'm curious, once smart contract becomes available in future versions of SMT, would you consider porting the game cards over to some unique version of tokens with different values, not unlike a flavor of ER721 (Conforming to Non-Fungible aka Unique Tokens) used by crytokitty
SMTs are not the same as custom programmable smart contracts offered by platforms like Ethereum and there are no plans to add anything like that to Steem. The point of this post was to show even without smart contracts we can still achieve the same goals that we could with ERC-721 tokens on Ethereum.
that was a probable though practical questions of making the collection value of your game cards truly NFT and trustless
to simply rule out what i said just because we both know that when the first version of SMT comes out that there isn't yet smart contract isn't the point, it's highly likely the ideas of contracts have cross @ned, @sneak, and other's mind, and most likely have gone beyond the drawing boards of the rather secretive Steemit Inc (and honestly, i rather they keep it secret and just put in the herculean effort to create a prototype than put it as a proposal like in bitshares 3.0 and not really do anything after 1.5 years of announcing it)
but i would address your point nonetheless as i was hoping you would address mine:
the very first concept of ETH that came out also did not have a promise of smart contact, infact that was developed in later version, and was only officially announced (albeit shortly) after Ethereum's genesis
now, the additional point you also brought up in this post is:
for about 1 month, i have happily encourage and endorse @Steemmonsters to almost everyone who has asked me about it in my community, including the developers in our group
and to tell you the truth, i had to answer with hope of some possible positive outcome of future non-fungible (proof and certified unique cards that's unquestionable and can be easily certified beyond 1 account and 1 centralized access control - say a hybrid hard and soft would be interesting) and can automate part trust-less with minimal exposure to human error and server security (avoiding ala. @utopian-io thief of posting tokens situation) in the future
i hope this comes across as nothing but to open up a discussion, as i'm clearly just a fellow steem investor (and yes, I'm still buying now at these dangerously low prices) and community and witness supporter, i would really like to see what is the exit road-map you would be open to considering as the implementer of your collectible card game