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That is interesting. I wasn't very informed about monetary policy at the genesis of Bitcoin, but I was looking at where I could point my extra idle computing power. Folding@home is what I tried I remember just a few months before I heard of Bitcoin.
Was that the prion protein folding thing? I remember that. I think SETI had a screen saver back in the day you could use to help find alien life or narrow it down. I tried that for awhile, then figured the aliens were probably all ready here and too smart to want to talk to most of us!
Yeah, I was interested in an alternative system that would not allow the basic "burn in" of certain people holding financial power. I came to the understanding of something like a financial Jubilee being necessary to such a system before I really understood what a Jubilee was.
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Yep. The project is still ongoing.
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Heh. I wonder if it has actually helped do anything useful in terms of tangible results?