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Bram Cohen has not let you down! He makes coins now: https://www.chia.net/ https://www.chia.net/

• eesmith 5y ago
  What an odd viewpoint. No wonder most people don't deliver amazing things - it avoids the social pressure to keep producing, lest we believe that person is letting us down. BTW, the article includes: "BitTorrent’s inventor is one of the driving forces behind the ‘greener’ Chia coin, which launched earlier last May."
  • Nursie 5y ago
    A coin that uses proof of storage space instead of cpu cycles is very debatable on the green creds.
    • eesmith 5y ago
      Which is why I believe that 'greener' is in quotes. But the main point of my heavily down-voted comment is that I can't conceive why anyone should feel let down by Cohen, even if he hadn't done a thing in the last 15 years. I actually believe that view corrosively discourages people from doing something exceptional, for worry that they won't be able to maintain that output, and thus face social stigmas like "you let us down."
      • etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
        Sorry: "not let you down" was intended as a sort of joke. It should be read as the very opposite: Bram Cohen is basically a sellout capitalizing on his name-brand-value by making his next-gen distributed protocol tied to a token sale that will make him very rich.
        • eesmith 5y ago
          Ahh, I see. I mis-interpreted it as comment in support of that particular form of cryptocurrency. Thank you for the clarification!