I mean it's basically just a zero trust fog compute platform. I apologise for the buzzwords but it's probably the most concise way to describe it. On the Consu

I mean it's basically just a zero trust fog compute platform. I apologise for the buzzwords but it's probably the most concise way to describe it. On the Consumer/Requester side it let's you farm out a parallel and reproducible compute problem at whatever the going rate is based on market forces. If you can break out the heavy lifting in your code into parallel and deterministic/reproducible components then you can run compute fairly cheaply and quickly. For most people the zero-trust security isn't as important but the redundancy aspect of it is nice. On the Producer/Compute side it lets you sell your unused processing power to do something actually useful. Think of it like BOINC but with a financial reward attached to it. While some people may eventually try to set up data centres as producers, for the most part the intent is to allow people to get some small profits back from lending out their compute power to scientific computations, 3d renders, simulations, etc. Golem has been through a number of iterations over the past few years and is starting to come together in a fairly cohesive manner now. There are a lot of limitations at the moment but each time I've checked in on the project it's been a lot more versatile and a lot less restricted. I don't think it's ready for a lot of use cases yet however it is getting closer. So I'd say it's worth playing around with if you like the tech however if you are expecting a well polished product I'd recommend keeping an eye on it for the next year or two.