[Bitcoin-development] smart contracts -- possible use case? yes or no?

[Mark Friedenbach]

This kind of thing - providing external audits of customer accounts
without revealing private data - would be generally useful beyond
taxation. If you have any solutions, I'd be interested to hear them
(although bitcoin-dev is probably not the right place yet).

Mark

On 9/29/13 2:37 AM, Adam Back wrote:
> taxation in particular there are examples where even the political sphere
> accepts significantly anonymous taxation.  eg for europeans with certain
> types of investment in a swiss bank, the swiss bank sends however many
> million as a single payment across all users per european country to their
> passport home country (minus 25% cut for the swiss government).  Perhaps
> such things could be possible for bitcoin.  Again I think bitcoin talk would
> be a good place for such a discussion if that was the OP question
> indirectly.