Smart Contract in Bitcoin

[shata]

what classifies a smart contract - looks like there is just a lot of buzz words, but no clear explanation.

Actually this is pretty clear defined: "A smart contract is a computer protocol intended to facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_contract
Smart contracts in combination with crypto currencies makes it a system where you dont have to trust a person. A contract will be enforced. Decentralized.

What is a typical smart contract use case?

Anything could be those use cases. For example some escrow service or a whole signature campaign which pays out per posts could be created.
Anything you can program can be coded into a smart contract.

This smart contract is a piece of code that runs on ethereum's blockchain and as such is by definition decentralized. It is a self executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly into line of code. It does not care about who wrong whom or what your name is.Once it live on ethereum's blockchain, no one can alter it.

[bob123]

This smart contract is a piece of code that runs on ethereum's blockchain and as such is by definition decentralized. It is a self executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly into line of code. It does not care about who wrong whom or what your name is.Once it live on ethereum's blockchain, no one can alter it.

A smart contract does not explicitly have to be based on ethereums blockchain. Neither does it have to be decentralized.
Ethereum is not the only platform which introduced smart contracts on the blockchain. But it is the most accepted and adopted.
Smart contracts (in future) could also be handled by a blockchain which is not completely decentralized. Licences, for example, could be easily
handled via smart contracts on a (non-public) "centralized blockchain".

[PatelKartel]

This smart contract is a piece of code that runs on ethereum's blockchain and as such is by definition decentralized. It is a self executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between buyer and seller being directly into line of code. It does not care about who wrong whom or what your name is.Once it live on ethereum's blockchain, no one can alter it.

A smart contract does not explicitly have to be based on ethereums blockchain. Neither does it have to be decentralized.
Ethereum is not the only platform which introduced smart contracts on the blockchain. But it is the most accepted and adopted.
Smart contracts (in future) could also be handled by a blockchain which is not completely decentralized. Licences, for example, could be easily
handled via smart contracts on a (non-public) "centralized blockchain".

Thanks man

[pageman]

Dryja had a talk on updating this concept at Scaling Bitcoin in Stanford -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7045&v=LDF8bOEqXt4 (other presentations are here: https://scalingbitcoin.org/presentations)

The PDF is here: https://adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf

Other Links:

https://coinjournal.net/bitcoins-lightning-network-can-used-decentralized-betting-platform/

Notable Quote:

“These things work great with friends, but bitcoin is the currency of enemies” - Thaddeus "Tadge" Dryja