Ethereum (Smart Contract)

Lyrics

[Intro]
The year is two thousand thirteen.
The glow of a screen in a quiet room.
Bitcoin had built a beautiful, specific machine.
But a question was left, dispelling the gloom.

[Verse 1]
He was nineteen. Vitalik Buterin.
University of Waterloo, writing code.
For Bitcoin Magazine, he saw the discipline within,
But the ledger only carried a single kind of load.
It only did one thing, perfectly.
It moved a value from address A... to B.
A flawless calculator that could only add.
He saw the ghost of what else it could be.

[Chorus]
What if the chain could follow a command?
What if the money came with instructions?
Not just a record of a prior transaction,
but a living, self-executing function.
A covenant written in light and time.
A world computer, running a paradigm.

[Verse 2]
The whitepaper landed that November.
A PDF titled 'A Next-Generation Platform.'
Then the Thiel Fellowship, something to remember.
One hundred thousand dollars to weather the storm.
To drop out and build the machine he'd designed.
The Ethereum Virtual Machine, Turing-complete.
An old idea, finally enshrined.
From abstract theory to the digital street.

[Chorus]
What if the chain could follow a command?
What if the money came with instructions?
Not just a record of a prior transaction,
but a living, self-executing function.
A covenant written in light and time.
A world computer, running a paradigm.

[Bridge]
Nick Szabo dreamed it in nineteen ninety-four.
A digital vending machine, a simple pact.
An idea waiting for the right door.
A seed waiting for fertile ground to act.
Two decades later, the nineteen-year-old sees the full scene.
A trust machine that can compute.

[Outro]
July thirtieth. Two thousand fifteen.
The Frontier release. Block one is mined.
A silent pulse across a network unseen.
A new kind of agreement for all mankind.
Money that remembers.
Money that acts.
Money with instructions.