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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by viraptor on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:02PM (#26442481)
It also barely computes anything. It's closer to distributed consensus. (Distributed tricky consensus? - I acknowledge there's a tiny bit of logic)
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by cachvico on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:02AM (#26444386)
It can compute anything you want it to compute.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by keymone on Saturday March 13, 2021 @02:58AM (#26444871)
No, it really can’t. Unless you mean it in a sense that Minecraft is a Turing complete machine and can compute anything you want it to compute. Good luck computing anything non trivial.
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