Back in the day, renowned Bitcoin dev Gregory Maxwell argued that blockchains are for verification, not computation.
31 Aug 2023, 13:40
Back in the day, renowned Bitcoin dev Gregory Maxwell argued that blockchains are for verification, not computation.
Many opposed this idea at the time, arguing that techniques such as sharding would provide a viable path to scale computation on blockchains.
However, as Greg predicted, the industry for the most part today treats this experiment as a dead end.
Read our latest piece to learn more about computation vs. verification and why CKB was optimized for verification from the get-go.