The simplest example is a crowdfunding smart contract that only releases funds after some funding goal is met, not possible on bitcoin.

We were specifically talking about Patreon, could you please clarify why that would need a smart contract? I don't see it. I see how you would perhaps in some complicated convoluted way to implement the whole platform on a smart contract, but at that point (if we are going that route, without having a central website at all) - what is the point of using contracts at all? It is way more complicated than just publishing a bitcoin address on creator's website and be done with it. People already think that is complicated, imagine what they would be saying about "smart contracts".

Patreon does not have a limitation of a funding goal usually, it just sends all the funds directly to the creator. It's not like kickstarter.

That's such an Erlich question.

You should just go back to Tibet.

Bitcoin does not have smart contracts or a programming language and the scaling in the new Ethereum is going to be better.

Why do you need smart contracts (besides the additional transaction types that Bitcoin provides) to implement a Patreon? Why can't the website just redistribute funds, if it is going to be centralized already? (It has to be hosted somewhere, handle user support etc.) What specific functions would you need from a smart contract there? I honestly don't see any.

The distribution is handled by the smart contract.

So the funds go to one contract address, and the contract distributes them to another address (of the content creator)? What is the point, that is just money transfer, it could be done with bitcoin donation address (and in fact is done that way currently by many creators successfully).