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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:02AM (#15905600)
yeah but it's just disk space. i ment running applications
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by netsharc on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:50AM (#15905896)
Isn't that the idea of Ethereum? Smart contracts can run logic written in whatever language they invented for that.
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Re:Ask HN: Is a P2P browser possible? by finchisko on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:08AM (#15906037)
no, smart contracts ambition is not run any arbitrary code. It's language is limited and not general purpose. Think more of DSL to support ethereum transactions than java,c...
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