Ex-Rugby Star: Smart Contracts Could Prevent Legal Disputes in Sport
An NRL rugby league match between the Sydney Roosters and New Zealand Warriors. Self-executing 'smart contracts' could be beneficial to the professional sports world, eliminating disputes between players and either their clubs or third-party sponsors. That's the view of Todd Byrne, a former professional rugby star with an interest in blockchain technology, as well as developers working to build a smart contract ecosystem that will they believe will remove time and cost pressures from the present justice system. Smart contracts have to date been a theoretical concept, though rudimentary....
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