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@ Constant
2025-04-22 11:42:49
So a bit of background insofar i can see/know.
Johan Pouwelse is the driving force behind all of this. He had been active in the distributive computing side of things for a long time, and all the sudden Bitcoin showed up. Atleast at the time (dont know what his possition is currently) he disliked Bitcoin.
But at some point this whole "blockchain" craze came up, and he simply capitalized on that buzzword to draw attention, funds and resources to his projects by setting up a "blockchain lab" at the university. He rephrased a bunch of things so he could continue with his DAG + signatures based systems.
Now i have a lot of disagreements with how he views things, but Tribler does work well, and he had done decades of work on WoT type systems so perhaps there is something of value here; just ignore any mention of 'blockchain' and percieve it as oppotunism to capitalize on hype by a desperate proffessor :P