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This sounded interesting until I read about the shitcoining. Not everything needs a token. Software applications actually work just fine without them.
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vinney...axkl 1y ago

Agreed there and I recognize that bitcoiners will get scared off by that (me included).

Shitcoins will be an option to for shitcoiners, but not baked into the core system. Everything compelling about a vaporware ship will always be possible without ever touching ethereum.

Just as Bitcoin's blockchain is untainted by the fact that Shitcoins also use blockchains, your ethereum-free vaporware ship will be untainted by the shitcoinery of others.

This is the way voluntarism and exit work and it is a good thing.

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vinney...axkl 1y ago

A bit more on that: our software distribution _protocol_ isn't aware of the chain (because we're not crazy people). it's just a distribution and signature verification system. You could post the hash of your source on your personal website, rather than onchain - or you could build your own software storefront that uses whatever scheme you want that keeps the shitcoiners out. We hope that many paths and various darknets will spring up that operate on their own terms.

We expect that those who are interested in playing bizarre defi speculative token games will benefit from having "software distribution" as part of their arsenal, so we're providing hooks for them to have their own fun. But we're also keeping such antics firmly isolated from the FOSS kernel and purely optional wherever it fits in.