Tim Roughgarden
@tr
Is the following a good analogy? 1. The Internet aspires to be neutral infrastructure for communication. 2. Permissionless blockchains aspire to be neutral infrastructure for computation.
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@mgd
how is captured the consensus aspect? a single computer isn’t also a neutral infrastructure for computation?
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Tim Roughgarden
@tr
A single computer is owned by someone. Permissionless consensus is the justification for viewing a blockchain protocol as a ownerless (i.e., neutral) computer
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