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The Bitcoin network doesn't really want users to develop on the bitcoin blockchain. Whereas the sole purpose of ethereum is for you to develop distributed apps
by dev1n 11y ago
The Bitcoin network doesn't really want users to develop on the bitcoin blockchain. Whereas the sole purpose of ethereum is for you to develop distributed apps on its blockchain. That's the contrast.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoso does this mean ethereum's blockchain works exactly the same as bitcoin's but they are committed to people building apps on top of their blockchain? But theoretically the applications could be built on top of Bitcoin's blockchain but the community doesn't provide support for it ( for example no easy scripting language like this post details?)
- dev1n 11y agoThere are definitely some major implementation level differences between Ethereum and Bitcoin. The hashing mechanism (Ethash) is quite different from Bitcoin, as well as how references to previous transactions are stored. You can read more about it here [1] and here [2] [1]: https://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/content/ https://ethereum.gitbooks.io/frontier-guide/content/ [2]: http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf