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12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine

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Block Chains Are a Surprisingly Difficult Thing to Code Up Reliably

The idea is that there may be something that's very perceptible to us about the real world, but we might naively think whell the computer should be able to tell whether that happened. And that that's a surprisingly difficult thing to code up reliably. So i don't ine to say that block chains are in a fundamentally programmatic medium. All they see as ta data that gets fit into them and what they can compute as a result of that data.

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