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Same thing. Came to comment “we are so back”

No offense to the creators, I appreciate anyone shipping something new, but this has been tried many times without success. HNT being the largest example.

Also, isn’t ICP be the same concept?

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Yeah ICP/Dfinity was one of the originals to target cloud computing on a blockchain platform, with one of the biggest budgets, highest profile backers (A16Z), and strongest engineering teams in the business (they poached IBM Zurich’s research lab). But it’s not taking off. The concept seems either not viable for reasons, or its too ahead of its time. Anyone attempting a new version needs a clear value proposition that’s different from prior attempts.

It's not taking off because their marketing is incredibly deceptive and there was a report showing that there was probably a planned retail dump shortly after launch allowing lots of backers to pull out. It's not really decentralized in any meaningful sense and they misuse terminology (like what the term "node" means, among other things) in order to give the appearance otherwise.

Hi! Thank you for taking the time I'm actually not aware of any project that was more complete, delivering on such scale like threefold.

I'm not sure I know ICP, it'd be great if you could link, It's always good opportunity to understand more

Internet Computer, should come up on Google

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