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Title: Finally someone explained Ethereum! Post by: qwk on October 04, 2018, 03:53:39 PM https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/data_pipeline.png
https://xkcd.com/2054/ Quote from: alt text Is the pipeline literally running from your laptop? Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on my phone. Vitalik Buterin: Check it out - I made a Turing complete blockchain that collects and processes all the information we need. Computer Scientist: Is it a giant house of cards built from random scripts that will all completely collapse the moment any input does anything weird? ... Vitalik Buterin: It ... might not be. Computer Scientist: I guess that's someth... Vitalik Buterin: Whoops, just collapsed. Hang on, I'm gonna hard fork it. alt text: Is the blockchain literally running from your laptop? Don't be silly, my laptop disconnects far too often to host a service we rely on. It's running on thousands of computers from a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing and who're only in it for the money. |
