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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by antimatter15 on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:32PM (#26443371)
Ethereum blocks have a gas limit so it wouldn't be Turing complete under your definition either.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by tom_mellior on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:28AM (#26445012)
The universe is finite so no Turing complete computing devices can ever exist.

Ethereum has a Turing complete language that is only limited in practice by external constraints like the gas limit. Bitcoin doesn't have such a language.

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by jude- on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:22AM (#26444205)
The EVM is TC in that you cannot determine if a snippet of code will halt, given sufficient gas. EVM code is undecidable, whereas Bitcoin script is not.
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