What is a Dapp? And What it Most Definitely is Not.

Written by paul-arssov | Published 2019/09/08
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TLDR A decentralized app / Dapp is NOT distributed, it IS NOT running on multiple computers, and it may or may not have the peer to peer option. It IS a computer program which runs on a single computer - be it a notebook, tablet, phone, raspberry pi system, etc. It IS NOT dependent on the consensus protocol of the blockchain, or proof-of-work. A request send from a Dapp, if valid, IS always processed by the node and may be incorporated in the next block. The actual way of calling is by HTTP GET/POST requests to 'localhost' - for ex.via the TL;DR App

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Written by paul-arssov | Developing Decentralized web
Published by HackerNoon on 2019/09/08