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There are a couple of medium posts describing technical background of the platform and token itself such as: https://cryptotask.medium.com/cryptotask-combines-defr-and-d... https://cryptotask.medium.com/technical-background-of-crypto...

We are running on AEternity blockchain (https://aeternity.com/), making gas fees sufficiently low. There have been 19.5k transactions https://www.aeknow.org/contract/detail/ct_X3szYGp5irejPsowXp... and we are alive :)

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Ooof, didn't know you were running on AEternity. That in itself would be a no for me. I would definitely love to participate if there was a decision to move to ETH when Optimism is released.

Why? The blockchain technologically, the UI difficulty of another chain, or the currency?

Because of all innovation is happening on Ethereum, so yes I don't want to deal with the UX difficulty of using another chain. Also I wouldn't want to invest (both time and $) into a project on a 2nd rate platform. Not to mention it doesn't reflect well on the project to not consider the network effect nor the planned L2 solutions that are here to address scalability. I highly recommend looking into Optimism. I'm not sure what the difference of AE and ETH EVM is (forked?), but I know that if you have a project in Solidity then you can launch on Optimism with little to no changes (just use their compiler).

who cares? they are just dropping junk storage onto random blockchain enthusiast's computers for basically free instead of AWS and are clearly paying their talent with a token that trades on the Ethereum network via Uniswap. Would you even notice?

You aren't a developer for them so you don't have to worry about Erlang, their token doesn't need an Aeternity wallet if it trades on Ethereum, and even if you do earn their token on the Aeternity blockchain they could just offer a bridge on their own website.

Let me know if I missed something, how is this your problem?

Because on Ethereum, they could connect/be integrated with other projects. As most dapps are on Ethereum and the network effect is probably the most important factor in crypto, this will continue to be the case.

Therefore it's highly unlikely that CryptoTask will ever have integrations with existing or potential new Dapps.

This might not be relevant right now, but it certainly will be in the future.

We are talking about a freelancer marketplace dumping state data on random nodes and miners computers for the lulz (and a level of immutability that nobody asked for). What could possibly be the integration here?

Their erc20 token on Ethereum can integrate with whatever you want

I think people are conflating things

On AEternity! Wow, I've participated in their ICO back then.

Thanks for the details, I'll take a look.

No Ethereum network- no go for me as well.

Their token trades on Uniswap so what difference does that make for you? Who cares where they dump their junk data?

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