July
@july
One of the features of Ethereum that initially made me think this would be the future was/is the idea of The World Computer - a series of machines that allow for distributed and decentralized execution of any arbitrary code (instructions) in the some future time in a guaranteed way (albeit on the EVM), guaranteed to happen, but not a hard guarantee on the exact time. Also another feature I found appealing was the trust-less preservation of history: how these nodes would be difficult to take down if everyone had a copy of the immutable history of these txs, executions and data and that that even one of these full nodes could propagate to preserve the history - making it really difficult to take down.
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July
@july
The coordination of having some global state on a planetary level (and beyond) has often appealed to me because we need coordination to start managing resources and making assertions at a larger scale. Global state is often shunned at in programming specifically because it is so powerful and impactful; it becomes a source of bugs. It requires a way to share this power then, a way to disseminate the decisions, and doing it in a trustless way just makes sense in this context Especially as our problems increase in scope to a planetary level as well (climate change, space exploration, transportation changes, the internet continuing to make the world smaller) and that requires global state machine, in a way - and how to do that world computer implementation in a trust less way when I read it - here’s something I can believe in will be the future
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Catabolismo
@catabolismo
The question would then be how to make it democratically.
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