Foundations of Blockchain

Distributed computing

In the last decade, we have witnessed tremendous growth in the computing industry. The growth in the computing industry was in terms of processing power, memory, storage, networking, design, and much more. With the increase in computing power, developers have started working on equally exciting projects to harness it. Although high-powered computing devices are available to the general public, they are not very economical. This was when distributed computing was introduced to situations where a complex problem could be solved by several computing devices by breaking the problem down into tasks.

Distributed computing is an efficient way of solving complex tasks without using any single high-powered computing machine. ...