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Stephen Downes

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This is another part of the whole concept of web3 that has been around for a while but is getting newfound attention. "With dApps, there are still computers that do the same job a traditional server does, but those computers don't all belong to the same person or company. Instead, the workload is spread across the computers of users and anyone else who makes their computer systems available." The attribution of work and payment is handled by smart contracts and blockchain. The advantage is that dApps are difficult to corrupt or hack, and they are tolerant of machine failure.

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