https://xkcd.com/2054/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.
