[fiatjaf]

Besides the facts that it is not a "cryptocurrency", it is an interesting idea. If we already trust so many centralized servers for so many things, why not trust this one for executing smart contracts and acting as a trusted ledger?

It is not true that all the smart contract stuff can only work in the decentralized cryptocurrencies world, we've skipped the cloud era for that, but that doesn't mean we should have skipped.

[ncodes]

Exactly. As much as we believe decentralization will remove the middleman, we need to understand that not every application can be built on decentralized systems. Our goal is to provide a platform where communities/teams can build simple to complex projects without learning new languages, new best practices and maintain the ability to scale horizontally.