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yep. Haven't seen a single application that isn't primarily aimed at raising investment money. It's Ponzi's all the way down as far as I can tell.

That may change, of course.

Golem seems interesting, rent out your cpu cycles to others. I think it currently works only with Blender, i.e. you could rent out rendering-farm.

Golem is definitely interesting considering that big cloud computing companies are now selling computing power.

The only application I've seen other than raising money is gambling, e.g. SatoshiDice