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I am still failing to find the reason why they are trying to put 'blockchain' together with everything else these days. It is exquisite for ledger/proof-of-wor
by fb03 7y ago
I am still failing to find the reason why they are trying to put 'blockchain' together with everything else these days.
It is exquisite for ledger/proof-of-work systems, but not much else.
Sounds like they're randomly taking guesses at what fits well with what, and the building upon.
- pdpi 7y agoI don't know much about _this_ particular project, but "wasm + blockchain" is not that silly an idea. The ethereum crowd is dead set on making the "Web 3.0" thing take off, and getting smart contracts to evolve into full-fledged distributed applications (dapps in the lingo). In that context, the ewasm project is a pretty damn serious attempt at leveraging the wasm specification as a better VM for dapps than what the current EVM provides.
- acdha 7y agoIt’s a better VM, sure, but the core problems are conceptual: there’s no way to fix bugs and programs still have to rely on outside sources for triggers. All a blockchain adds is the ability to get VC funding to expensively reinvent the trusted third party but with less efficiency.