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Compromised | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Oh man, I didn’t cut when this when he shared his ideas. Yeah, everything what is tight to shitcoins is going to be no go
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vinney | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 There are no tokens in our stack or dependencies on blockchains of any variety, including Bitcoin. 
The token stuff you see on that landing page was an early idea for handling trustless software versioning and provenance. 
We aren't working on that now; building core OS primitives currently.
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Compromised | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 What about the future ?
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vinney | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 As a cofounder of the company I commit this note to my personal relay and many others: The core OS primitives that we build are now and will continue forever to be trustless, permissionless, open source, and not dependent upon tokens to operate. 

Given that it is FOSS, I can't determine what other people will build on top of the system - nor do I have any interest in making it possible for my opinions and principles to dictate what others can do with my software.
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Compromised | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Great that you changed your mind! I just don’t see any benefits to the projects that try to print their 💩 coins 🤷‍♂️😁
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vinney | 3 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 To elaborate a bit, since you're asking about it: we were not going to launch a token. We experimented with attaching software to ethereum NFTs such that purchase of an NFT meant the author of the software would distribute the source code to you. And reselling the NFT meant the new owner would receive the software (statefully! Meaning if you had a "Pokemon" app containing a highly trained Pikachu and you sold that app to someone else, he would have that trained Pikachu now.)
The app data wasn't stored onchain, nor was the source code, both of those were local to the VM and transferred to the new owner as a serialized value. just the ownership record was stored onchain via NFT. 

...but as I said, that was an early demo to prove some things about code and state distribution. There's nothing in our current code that has anything to do with blockchains. 
If two people can peer with eachother, they can distribute software (or any other arbitrary digital content) to eachother in an uncensorable manner. 

Pirate app stores from the future!