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Romain Tormen
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Romain Tormen

Romain Tormen is a senior consultant for PwC, a worldwide consulting firm. He has experienced digital transformation within several industries and different business units. Specialized in emerging technologies, he promotes to his clients the use of blockchain for better transaction security, transparency, disintermediation, and third-parties authentication. As a contributing writer for one of the most-read tech-oriented website hackernoon, Romain gives business insights and provides use-cases for a broad range of industries.
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The EVM

The EVM is like Windows or macOS, an operating system reading and understanding programs written in Ethereum's specific language: Solidity. It is a Turing-complete software that enables anyone to run any program, making the process of creating blockchain-based applications much easier and more efficient than ever before.

That is why there are thousands of different applications running on Ethereum's blockchain, because you do not have to write an entirely new language to be able to build an application.

A Turing-complete machine is a concept of a machine that can calculate anything if it has unlimited memory available. Actual computers have to operate on limited memory, therefore they cannot be called Turing-complete. The Ethereum blockchain, on the other hand, is a distributed Turing-complete program.

Say you want to create a new coin that would be used only...

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Romain Tormen

Romain Tormen is a senior consultant for PwC, a worldwide consulting firm. He has experienced digital transformation within several industries and different business units. Specialized in emerging technologies, he promotes to his clients the use of blockchain for better transaction security, transparency, disintermediation, and third-parties authentication. As a contributing writer for one of the most-read tech-oriented website hackernoon, Romain gives business insights and provides use-cases for a broad range of industries.
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