Re:Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
by davidgerard on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:40AM
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Every computation runs on every instance of Ethereum, yes.
It is important to note that this is not a resource for distributed general computation - it's for running smart contracts. Per the Ethereum development tutorial, "you will not be able to do anything on the EVM that you cannot do on a smartphone from 1999." https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-T...
This is not a very good article - it's rather breathless and short on technical detail. In particular, calling it "the World Computer" is completely not what Ethereum will be capable of.
It is important to note that this is not a resource for distributed general computation - it's for running smart contracts. Per the Ethereum development tutorial, "you will not be able to do anything on the EVM that you cannot do on a smartphone from 1999." https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Development-T...
This is not a very good article - it's rather breathless and short on technical detail. In particular, calling it "the World Computer" is completely not what Ethereum will be capable of.