Quote from: monsterer on March 15, 2016, 09:19:14 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 15, 2016, 09:14:42 AM

if Ethereum is a distributed computing platform

It isn't; it's a replicated/redundant computing platform.

Fault-tolerant is a good term I think. Perhaps that helps define its (possible) utility too.

What if there are calculations that are so important and valuable that they can't be left to any one system or even a redundant cluster of system under any sort of common control? That might be worth something, but I don't think any of the currently-envisioned Ethereum use cases are that.