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General Discussion / Re: What is Bitshares exactly? Please ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5)
« on: August 22, 2015, 09:09:45 am »
Likewise, BitShares is an Asset Exchange Network.
Actually BitShares is quite similar to Ethereum but without the (probably unmanageable) overhead of a "Turing-complete" programming language. Thus, it can be seen to be similar to Java (offering a subset of C/C++) when Ethereum is considered C/C++ (or such). Here the benefit is that the subset is handable and verifyable (.... more robust and safer), and much easier to work with
Actually BitShares is quite similar to Ethereum but without the (probably unmanageable) overhead of a "Turing-complete" programming language. Thus, it can be seen to be similar to Java (offering a subset of C/C++) when Ethereum is considered C/C++ (or such). Here the benefit is that the subset is handable and verifyable (.... more robust and safer), and much easier to work with