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Re:MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encry... by kodablah on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:29PM (#9809256)
MaidSafe[1] is a similar scheme for data (not CPU cycles) and it does have a currency based on amount shared and a couple of other things. It is also serverless but it doesn't use a blockchain. They are doing a lot of active development in the space right now.

1 - http://maidsafe.net/

Edit: actually it does appear a goal is to share computing power though I know less about those details compared to the data distribution. Ref: https://forum.safenetwork.io/t/homomorphic-encryption-by-mit...

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Re:MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encry... by wcummings on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:31PM (#9809758)
>They are doing a lot of active development in the space right now.

Citation needed, the only thing I've seen maidsafe do is take peoples' money

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Re:MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encry... by kodablah on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @11:24PM (#9809904)
See the forum [1], watch the sprints [2], look at GitHub [3] and watch their dev in Rust.

1 - https://forum.safenetwork.io/ 2 - https://maidsafe.atlassian.net/ 3 - https://github.com/maidsafe/

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Re:MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encry... by faizshah on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @10:59PM (#9809831)
That's interesting, I'll take a look.

I have been watching http://www.zennet.sc/ which is the closest I have found but maidsafe seems pretty interesting as well.

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