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Re:Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows by doktrin on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @03:36AM (#14966326)
> An Ethereum based on OCaml has an interesting potential.

I see this kind of stuff a lot in the "cryptocurrency" space. When I was reading about Waves, for instance, one proponent unironically proclaimed that "It's built on Scala, which is a better architecture than Ethereum".

I'm no Scala hater, but surely stuff like the implementation language isn't the most important variable in evaluating a new altcoin / cryptocurrency platform? This sounds a lot like hand wavy mumbo jumbo that's meant to convince non-technical "investors" to part with their cash / BTC.

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Re:Despite S.E.C. Warning, Wave of Initial Coin Offerings Grows by olala69 on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:05AM (#14979207)
It's built on OCaml because of functionality and langsec - contract code and implementations written in procedural/objective languages are immensely unstable which is also why ETH smart contracts keep getting hacked.

Consider that not even the fucking inventor of Ethereum himself can write a contract without massive exploits.

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