Topic: wtf is ethereum? (Read 3067 times)
I am not sure what it is. I think you might be able to synthesize it using ethanol and buteric acid.
It does seem like a technical minefield. Best of luck to him!
Oh man, this is going to be a lot of fun.
Etherium will probably be pretty powerful, a Turing complete Scrypt can get some amazing things done, but just wait till the bugs start showing up, or hackers begin picking at the Blockchain, injecting values into those blocks to cause havok.
It's serious business when you censor viruses and trojans or malicous programs living on the Blockchain. This thing is starting to look like a strand of DNA with all it's infused codes and integrated viruses and programs. wow.
Etherium will probably be pretty powerful, a Turing complete Scrypt can get some amazing things done, but just wait till the bugs start showing up, or hackers begin picking at the Blockchain, injecting values into those blocks to cause havok.
It's serious business when you censor viruses and trojans or malicous programs living on the Blockchain. This thing is starting to look like a strand of DNA with all it's infused codes and integrated viruses and programs. wow.
I simply wonder wether the ability and sincerity of Vitalik outweighs his naiveté ?
You need to be young and naive to attempt these pie-in-the-sky projects. With a little luck on your side you might just succeed. I'd be very impressed if a 20 year old can pull this off.
For example Etheruem allows to write crowd contracts. No we won't be able to do with sidechainins in bitcoin.
I could not agree more with Melbustus and Gavin's posts about Ethereum.
I simply wonder wether the ability and sincerity of Vitalik outweighs his naiveté ?
Then again my reservation about Ethereum is not about feasibility but about the centralizing effect of Turing-completeness.
If transactions can be designed with infinite (or very long) loops to perform DoS attacks, miners will have to turn to some anti-malware solution like the ones marketed by MacAffe, Norton , etc.
The solution can be worse that the problem with some miners colluding to filter out some transactions on the grounds that they can be "bad" for the network perfomance. The notion of consensus starts to become fuzzy.
I simply wonder wether the ability and sincerity of Vitalik outweighs his naiveté ?
Then again my reservation about Ethereum is not about feasibility but about the centralizing effect of Turing-completeness.
If transactions can be designed with infinite (or very long) loops to perform DoS attacks, miners will have to turn to some anti-malware solution like the ones marketed by MacAffe, Norton , etc.
The solution can be worse that the problem with some miners colluding to filter out some transactions on the grounds that they can be "bad" for the network perfomance. The notion of consensus starts to become fuzzy.
I just realised the link to Gavin's blog answers a lot of my previous questions for me (posted by Melbustus).
I think I have no more questions for now! Thank you everyone.
I think I have no more questions for now! Thank you everyone.
biggest presale selfbuy minersscam in crypto history.
If it ever materialises ...
Right now it's hype based on powerpoint presentations.
Later it will be: too complex to run stable or be safe from exploits ... if it ever is released
My personal best guess: 1 decade developement to even get it to run a stable beta if not given up on it sooner
If it ever materialises ...
Right now it's hype based on powerpoint presentations.
Later it will be: too complex to run stable or be safe from exploits ... if it ever is released
My personal best guess: 1 decade developement to even get it to run a stable beta if not given up on it sooner
Seems a little dismissive in comparison to the other responses in here.
I just watched this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbEtivJIfIU
And am impressed by some things.
It does seem like incentivized decentralisation should be applied to more applications than just currency.
What I would like to see is how easy it is to do this but just by using the bitcoin blockchain rather than making a whole new chain.
Is this what side-chaining is?
Is there a thread on BCT debating ethereum? I am definitely convinced on the ability and sincerity of Vitalik, my reservations about Ethereum are whether or not the technical challenges can all be met.
Decentralised apps may be the future, if they can't work on the bitcoin chain (apart from bitcoin's currency itself) then something like Ethereum becomes inevitable no? (Should it be technically feasible).
Thanks for the thoughts guys!
biggest presale selfbuy minersscam in crypto history.
If it ever materialises ...
Right now it's hype based on powerpoint presentations.
Later it will be: too complex to run stable or be safe from exploits ... if it ever is released
My personal best guess: 1 decade developement to even get it to run a stable beta if not given up on it sooner
If it ever materialises ...
Right now it's hype based on powerpoint presentations.
Later it will be: too complex to run stable or be safe from exploits ... if it ever is released
My personal best guess: 1 decade developement to even get it to run a stable beta if not given up on it sooner
It is liquid and too complex to be understood 
Whenever someone mentions the unit of currency in ethereum I think of this:
I still have no real idea what Ethereum is. I have really looked at it. Doesnt really make sense to me.
Around here that's called a "buy signal", lol. 
It sounds quite amazing, but it's going to take year I imagine before this thing can get its shit together. It must be the mother of all technical challenges to do all this in a decentralised manner. Simple systems FTW. Emergent complexity ftMFw.
Melbustus answers is the best so far.
For a concrete example: you can code a crowd funding contract into etheruem. This contract lives in the ehtereum's block chain and handles pledges and releasing the funds to the final party or returning them to the pledgees if the contract is not fully funded by a certain date. You can't program that into Bitcoin's blockchain.
Turing complete meaning you have loops, if/then, functions, etc.. AND storage to use to build your application, like you would in say a ruby web app with a database. You would want to keep them simple though, each transaction and your storage size determines the amount of ether it costs for that contract.
For a concrete example: you can code a crowd funding contract into etheruem. This contract lives in the ehtereum's block chain and handles pledges and releasing the funds to the final party or returning them to the pledgees if the contract is not fully funded by a certain date. You can't program that into Bitcoin's blockchain.
Turing complete meaning you have loops, if/then, functions, etc.. AND storage to use to build your application, like you would in say a ruby web app with a database. You would want to keep them simple though, each transaction and your storage size determines the amount of ether it costs for that contract.
I've done a lot of rookie research and can't seem to understand what it is.
I've heard that it's turing complete, the html to bitcoin's http, an extra layer, NOT an alt etc.
Is it just 'BML?' (bitcoin markup language?)
How does it use and relate to the blockchain to do whatever it's doing that bitcoin isn't?
What does it all mean??
I've heard that it's turing complete, the html to bitcoin's http, an extra layer, NOT an alt etc.
Is it just 'BML?' (bitcoin markup language?)
How does it use and relate to the blockchain to do whatever it's doing that bitcoin isn't?
What does it all mean??
Ethereum is the name of an awesome concept that its inventor failed to materialize.
Failed , do you mean "scam" ? Because I don't think they have scammed anyone...
I've done a lot of rookie research and can't seem to understand what it is.
I've heard that it's turing complete, the html to bitcoin's http, an extra layer, NOT an alt etc.
Is it just 'BML?' (bitcoin markup language?)
How does it use and relate to the blockchain to do whatever it's doing that bitcoin isn't?
What does it all mean??
I've heard that it's turing complete, the html to bitcoin's http, an extra layer, NOT an alt etc.
Is it just 'BML?' (bitcoin markup language?)
How does it use and relate to the blockchain to do whatever it's doing that bitcoin isn't?
What does it all mean??
Ethereum is the name of an awesome concept that its inventor failed to materialize.
At some point, I heard about ethereum was going to be the next big thing. But what happened?
Thank you Melbustus.
I still have no real idea what Ethereum is. I have really looked at it. Doesnt really make sense to me.
This question will never really be ansvered in an easy to understand way. Same with Ripple. They get repect though...
Sounds like Ripple and Steller are kinda broken at the core consensus level: https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_tolerance_consensus_choice/
I'm guessing they'll be made more and more explicitly centralized as time goes by.
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