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Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — Chargeback & Escrow

Satoshi explains that Bitcoin is designed for non-reversible transactions between two parties without intermediaries, and describes planned escrow transactions using a predicate language.

Satoshi ↔ Mike Hearn — BitcoinJ & Contracts

Mike Hearn announces the open-source release of BitcoinJ under the Apache 2 license, and asks about merkle branch verification, scripting language ideas, and why transaction replacement was disabled.