ah, Thanks! but what can a distributed system like this do? is this a fun to do, for the sake of doing it project or does it have practical applications? just curious about applicability thats all.
The advantage over centralizing the compute is that you can just connect your node and start contributing to the cause (both by providing compute and by being its eyes and hands out there in the real world), there's no confusion over things like who is paying the cloud compute bill and nobody has invested overmuch in hardware.
I think of it more like government 2.0.