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The "internet computer" is a description of a general category of things: blockchain computers that share state with verification, consensus, and guaranteed dat
by lazzlazzlazz 3y ago
The "internet computer" is a description of a general category of things: blockchain computers that share state with verification, consensus, and guaranteed data availability as irrevocable properties of those systems.
Although a16z did invest in "Internet Computer Protocol" (formerly known as Dfinity) years before, the term here is being used in the general sense, and Dfinity adopted the term later for marketing purposes.
- preseinger 3y agoyeah but they're not actually irrevocable, right, because networks can fork you're always subject to some authority, trust always exists, it's just that in decentralized systems that authority is arbitrary, subject to an algorithm rather than an entity governed by law