[jesseb]

I have no stake in this whatsoever, I just have some questions that maybe you (or somebody else) can answer, as I'm finding myself agreeing with the parent post.

- What does blockchain have to do with HPC? What advantages does this give me versus current solutions?

- If I was concerned of the privacy of my data, why would I put it on an unproven, public, immutable ledger? We all know what can happen when even minor bugs rear their heads in these types of applications.

- Where does machine learning come into the equation?

- Why would I want to use this rather than AWS/GCE/etc.?

I guess really what I'm asking is, what problem is this solving? Just curious :)

[Ar-Curunir]

The problem is combining multiple people's data for use in ML, and also establishing provenance of different data sets; existing solutions would reveal privacy completely in these use cases.