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Turing Machines on Bitcoin

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Post by tromp »

With a separate transaction (over 6KB in size in their small example TM) needed for every TM transition, this can get rather expensive in fees. Except when you run it on Bitcoin BSV as they did.

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Post by sumeno »

This is the perfect representative of blockchain technology because it’s a convoluted way to do something that is better done with existing technologies without using a blockchain.

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Post by p4bl0 »

sumeno wrote: post #3

This is the perfect representative of blockchain technology because it’s a convoluted way to do something that is better done with existing technologies without using a blockchain.

I'm glad I hit the reload button before writing my comment, I was going to say the exact same thing.

EDIT: Okay blockchain zealots, downvote and flag my comment all you want, but if for once one of you could actually show a project that uses a blockchain (other than so-called "cryptocurrencies" which are essentially used as a speculation asset) and which cannot be implemented better and more efficiently with other technologies, that might be a little more interesting.

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Post by toolz »

sumeno wrote: post #3

This is the perfect representative of blockchain technology because it’s a convoluted way to do something that is better done with existing technologies without using a blockchain.

Until you want do something completely distributed that requires trust. The runtime isn't great, but then again, what runtime is better that meets those requirements? ACH is far slower than many blockchain solutions, for example.

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Post by reginold »

Could someone who likes this article share what they liked about it?

I'm getting the idea that it's either 1. A fun proof of principle project 2. entertains more "compute" ideas on blockchains, kinda like Ethereum

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Post by shilch »

xiphias2 wrote: post #4

This is about Bitcoin SV (BSV), not Bitcoin (BTC)

The solution presented in the article uses the bitcoin protocol. BSV is just one implementation of that. It could also work on BCH if some default limits were lifted, and (theoretically, not economically) possible on BTC.
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