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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by heliumcraft on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:32AM (#11181529)
It's not meant to be used for 'distributed' computation.
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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by eternalban on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:56AM (#11181657)
Any system based on distributed consensus is by definition a distributed system.
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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by heliumcraft on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:03AM (#11181693)
right. But it's meant to be used for consensus and not heavy computations.
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Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer by eternalban on Saturday February 27, 2016 @10:48AM (#11187375)
The consensus bit is the "heavy computation". The means regardless of the ends.
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