Ryan's work at Reddit was reimplementing bitcoind in JavaScript on node.js: https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/r

Ryan's work at Reddit was reimplementing bitcoind in JavaScript on node.js: https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/ryanxcharles/fullnode/graphs/commit-activ... Here's where he sets out what he was trying to do: https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_reason_ryan_charles_was_fired_from/co6r4q9 https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2uadvd/the_real_rea... The takeaway is: if you start with "... but with Bitcoin!", then iteratively putting different words before "but" is unlikely ever to result in something that is actually useful, not just interesting.