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Story: Ethereum (ETH) Evolving from Being a General Purpose Blockchain to Super Purpose Blockchain

By Dan Saada

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There is a new podcast from "Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum about Understanding Ethereum, ETH vs.

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Some of the noteworthy points in the interview are about Vitalik Buterin calling Ethereum a general purpose blockchain.

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He further stated, different participants have particular ways of plugging into the database.

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He also stated that Ethereum expands on the Bitcoin approach.  Rather than having rules, which are suited for one application, the rules are made more general purpose.

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The transcript of the podcast states:  “Bitcoin is like a spreadsheet where everyone only controls their own five squares of the spreadsheet, but Ethereum is a spreadsheet…

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A lot of things have been happening on Ethereum, developers are able to build decentralized domain name systems like various decentralized financial contraptions, and prediction…

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The core difference between building an application on Ethereum versus building on some traditional centralized platform is that once the app is built on Ethereum, the…

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In summary, if Bitcoin is a shared ledger, then Ethereum is a shared computer for the entire world to run its most important applications.

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Also, now DeFi, which is decentralized finance is a gigantic new category where entire companies and protocols get built in a decentralized way which permit one to do a lot of…

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Vitalik Buterin reportedly in another interview stated, “We wanted digital nations, but we got digital nationalism.”

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