jbrukh
(2) Sorry, not following you. I never said or implied anything of the sort. I don't see how that's a central issue to our discussion, but perhaps you can educate me.
Rather digital equity and governance systems [1] that are currently being built around blockchain and decentralized projects simply take a much more egalitarian and healthy approach to distributing ownership in the first place. And, hey, if you want to use equity as an incentive for retaining employees, you still can do that using (for instance) a smart contract in a way that is fair and not concentrated as a power in the signature of a single person.
At the end of the day, traditional private equity whether it is an investment or as compensation has a lot of problems, as I'm sure HN readers on here know very well.
[1] Most forward-thinking real world example: http://daohub.org
https://blog.coinfund.io/explaining-blockchain-to-traditiona...
If you're spending 45 minutes writing 5 lines of code, it is not definitive, but certainly a red flag.
Probabilistic algorithm to unscramble CrazyBlindDate avatars.
http://decrazifier.appspot.com
The app is written in Go. You can check out the source here: http://github.com/jbrukh/decrazifier.