I&#x27;m excited by Ethereum. It definitely is interesting to think about distributed computation like that. However, doing it on a blockchain, along with data storage might prove to be prohibitively expensive for various types of apps. UBS is looking at Ethereum to do a bond market. I imagine that&#x27;s an appropriate use of the technology.<p>But with apps I personally want to make, I&#x27;m more interested in MaidSafe Network. It&#x27;s basically a distributed data storage network, fast enough that it&#x27;s good for communication&#x2F;message passing in apps.<p>MaidSafe got me interested in making apps for it that are pure client-side JS, with the intention of them being served from the distributed storage. While I dislike running JS in the browser, I will support it when it means there&#x27;s no server. For now, my intention is to write apps using the Elm language.<p>Other interesting work continues to be done in Tahoe-LAFS, I2P, and Freenet. There&#x27;s also IPFS. I&#x27;m looking forward to the future of this tech!