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by sova 1888 days ago
Clearly the author put effort into making it brief and easy to understand. In the distributed network of computers participating in ETH, one can associate price with computing potential. For a given finite calculation, one can ask how much it would "cost" in ETH, also giving one a reasonable metric for how much modern-moment computational power is required from the ETH network. Maybe the network is always growing, so maybe this is variable, but maybe some computations are variable and grow parallel to the growth of the ETH network, so one could track that subset of calculations or calculations-required in terms of ETH. It's a nifty idea.
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> For a given finite calculation, one can ask how much it would "cost" in ETH, also giving one a reasonable metric for how much modern-moment computational power is required from the ETH network

Exactly!