Ethereum, Aeternity and the distributed wonders

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Ethereum is presented as a Turing‑complete generalization of Bitcoin where every node replicates contract execution rather than sharing workload, deployed solidity contracts get an address and can hold ether or self‑destruct, and consensus yields ~17.5 seconds per block. Interaction uses web3.js, gas limits execution to prevent DDoS, and testing happens on local chains or testnets. Real incidents (Parity multisig hacks) and alternative proposals like Aeternity’s functional‑style contracts show both fragility and concrete paths forward.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:55Bitcoin is a ledger
3. 10:57A ledger is a state-machine
4. 20:07The constructor
5. 23:09selfdestruct(address)
6. 25:43Secure Online Shopping

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