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Self-Reproducing Coins as Universal Turing Machine

2 pointsby GBiTover 2 years ago

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cs702over 2 years ago
Very clever. Even if the smart-contract language used in the blockchain isn't Turing-complete, one can still implement an universal Turing machine by using the blockchain itself as a "tape" and cleverly constructed transactions as the "instructions." Turing completeness is hard to prevent!