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I'm excited by Ethereum. It definitely is interesting to think about distributed computation like that. However, doing it on a blockchain, along with data storage might prove to be prohibitively expensive for various types of apps. UBS is looking at Ethereum to do a bond market. I imagine that's an appropriate use of the technology.

But with apps I personally want to make, I'm more interested in MaidSafe Network. It's basically a distributed data storage network, fast enough that it's good for communication/message passing in apps.

MaidSafe got me interested in making apps for it that are pure client-side JS, with the intention of them being served from the distributed storage. While I dislike running JS in the browser, I will support it when it means there's no server. For now, my intention is to write apps using the Elm language.

Other interesting work continues to be done in Tahoe-LAFS, I2P, and Freenet. There's also IPFS. I'm looking forward to the future of this tech!