除了对请求进行路由之外，代理服务器还能够执行负载平衡、故障转移和分布式身份验证。

Apart from routing the requests, the proxy server is also capable of load balancing, fail over, and distributed authentication.

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比特币也使用广为人知的“对等分布式时间戳服务器”来验证数字硬币没有“双重使用”——换句话说就是伪造。

Bitcoin also USES a widely-published "peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server" to verify that the digital COINS have not been "double spent" -in other words, counterfeited.

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