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by eemax 3199 days ago
Nice. In general, I think cryptocurrency and blockchains are pretty over-hyped, but they are a good example of a non-trivial but still simple application to show off a programming language.

For example, compare this to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439789

for a simple blockchain implementation in Haskell.