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Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub by hobofan on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:02AM (#25314217)
Because the cryptocurrency hype funds/funded most of those projects and/or the prospect of adding a cryptocurrency to the projects causes VCs to fund those projects.

In this particular case Radicle came out of OScoin (or is the new incarnation of it?) and was funded by BlueYard.

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Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub by amself on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:24AM (#25314361)
Right. I was surprised to see they chose to implement social coding after integrating with Ethereum, but it makes sense considering all the hype.
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Re:Radicle: A peer-to-peer alternative to GitHub by lftherios on Saturday December 05, 2020 @10:26AM (#25315198)
we are actually working on both problems in parallel. it's just that the skillset required and complexity is very different.
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