Itherium - The Roads Not Taken

Itherium co founder mitallic buterin published a blog post this week reflecting on possible directions his creation could have taken. The piece titled the roads not taken, is technical in places, but the main conclusions are easy to grasp. Buteran writes its virtual machine could have used existing code rather than a bespoke solution. Its developers could have gone with a crude version of proof of stake, the consensus algorithm that will eventually secure a theorium as it makes its transition to two point o that already existed in 20 13. Hetheorium could have also been more bit coin like.

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