nix_said

Except much much more limited and every line of code costs way more money to run on one computer while only acting as if it was ran on a single computer in practice.

Ethereum relies on a defined opscode language, if anything this is the new thing about Ethereum. The return function in Bitcoin is storage, store the opscode in the return function. In Ethereum you store the opscode in a special data field.

The thing the Ethereum client adds is the ability to take the data in the transaction storage (weather it be return or a defined datafield makes no difference) and pass it through an EVM to generate the current state. So there is no reason for that functionality to be limited to just the Ethereum client.

You would take that piece of the client and run the opscode in the return data storage across several transactions.

I thought this was obvious to anyone who understands the discussion on a reasonably technical level. I suspect many posters in this thread are just Ethereum investors with no programming knowledge.

I have used it and it has many many limitations. A lot of the people coming up with random ideas + a blockchain don't realize that a lot of those ideas would not be improved by adding a blockchain.

You are clearly talking to an Ethereum investor and not a programmer. A large part of the Ethereum hype is using blockchains where they are woefully the wrong tool for the job.