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It's been preparing for at least 20 years! Nicolas had even talked about creating a framework for writing smart contracts before Bitcoin emerged. Nicolas foresaw the future back in 2004. In 2023, NIST defined the state machine as the foundation of distributed ledger systems. For
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AI visual note: The image shows a thesis abstract by P. Nicolas Kokkalis from 2004 titled "A modular framework to implement fault tolerant distributed services," presented at the University of Toronto, highlighting his early use of Lamport's state machine approach to fault-tolerant distributed services. This connects to the post by illustrating how Nicolas Kokkalis foresaw distributed ledger technology decades before blockchain existed, with his 2004 thesis predating NIST's later formal recognition of the state machine as foundational to distributed ledger systems.