To add to this, yes, distributed computing is full of really cool stuff. It's been pumping out tons of solutions to real-world scalability problems for decades.

To add to this, yes, distributed computing is full of really cool stuff. It's been pumping out tons of solutions to real-world scalability problems for decades. I get the feeling that a bunch of people are just now coming into the conversation with no knowledge of this, and thinking that Blockchain == distributed computing, like it's the first and only kind of distributed algorithm ever to exist or something.