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Did you know that dApps or decentralized applications were around long before cryptocurrencies saw the light? They came into prominence with the mainstream adoption of the P2P (peer-to-peer) technology.
Gnutella (stable release – March, 2000)Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers.
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Gnutella (the name might have derived by analogy with
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) was the peer-to-peer protocol that led to the influx of clients built on top of the same model.Here is how the network works – yes, after almost 20 years it still exists!
Alice starts downloading pieces of a movie Bob wants to grab a hold of. He simultaneously downloads 1GB from Alice, and 1.5GB from Julia who now has some of it. Bit by bit peers slowly download the whole file. Sounds familiar? Sounds like BitTorrent? It all started with Gnutella!
If you want to poke the legendary protocol, go and download the modern Gnutella clients, such as
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,
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or
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for your Windows and
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for your MacOS and Linux.dApps on Blockchain
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There is no definition set in stone for a dApp on blockchain. So many men, so many minds. Here is just one of the many
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:- dApp must be completely open-source
- consensus of the users determines future changes to dApp
- standard cryptographic algorithm must be used, to generate the crypto tokens
- dApp must use a cryptographic token
- dApp must generate tokens
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Top dApps on the Ethereum blockchain, March 13, 2019, Dappradar.com
Ethereum is the most widely used platform for dApps.
In a word, Ethereum is the network that has made the wide adoption of smart contracts and dApps possible.
In-demand Ethereum dApps include
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.Final thoughts
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As a phenomenon, dApps saw the light quite a long ago, with the influx of P2P clients.
Yes, there were dApps before blockchain! And what we see today is just a continuation of the trend.