Bug #22
Updated by didi almost 8 years ago
Synereo is/was a very ambitious project, aimed at building a fully decentralized Blockchain platform with attention economy builtin, suitable for a large scale social network.
[Here's the whitepaper](https://github.com/synereo/synereo.github.io/raw/master/whitepapers/synereo.pdf)
Some days ago deep conflicts inside the Synereo team became public. The 2 founders basically split up.
It's an interesting case study in order to learn what circumstances can lead to failure.
The culmination of the conflict has been publicly streamed and is [available on YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLrvV2YKbZg) (> 3 hrs!)
It displays a toxic mix of egos, different viewpoints, lack of mutual respect, missed schedules, funding issues, issues related to technical complexity and debt, lack in clear governance structure, etc.
In the aftermath of this event, articles were removed from the Synereo Blog, e.g. [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20161007133524/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/29/standing-on-the-shoulder-of-giants-synereos-full-tech-stack-explained/) and [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20161007133532/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/22/the-synereo-tech-stack-2-0-explained-rholang-special-k/)
[Opinion and discussion on Steemit](https://steemit.com/synereo/@ervin-lemark/synereo-divorce-story-news-from-december-12th-2016)
[Insightful Comment of a leaving team member](https://medium.com/@eeik/brokechain-an-apology-to-the-synereo-community-from-one-who-walked-away-8243720ceecf#.rnvpt3duk)
The departing CTO heads http://rchain.coop/ which may continue [RChain](https://web.archive.org/web/20161018221037/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/05/meet-rchain-the-first-scalable-blazing-fast-turing-complete-blockchain/) development if funding can be achieved.
Would be a pity to see this project die. But even if, the research done so far may go into Ethereum. There was already collaboration in the development of Casper ([link](https://blog.synereo.com/2015/07/23/ethereumsynereo3-2/))
[Here's the whitepaper](https://github.com/synereo/synereo.github.io/raw/master/whitepapers/synereo.pdf)
Some days ago deep conflicts inside the Synereo team became public. The 2 founders basically split up.
It's an interesting case study in order to learn what circumstances can lead to failure.
The culmination of the conflict has been publicly streamed and is [available on YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLrvV2YKbZg) (> 3 hrs!)
It displays a toxic mix of egos, different viewpoints, lack of mutual respect, missed schedules, funding issues, issues related to technical complexity and debt, lack in clear governance structure, etc.
In the aftermath of this event, articles were removed from the Synereo Blog, e.g. [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20161007133524/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/29/standing-on-the-shoulder-of-giants-synereos-full-tech-stack-explained/) and [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20161007133532/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/22/the-synereo-tech-stack-2-0-explained-rholang-special-k/)
[Opinion and discussion on Steemit](https://steemit.com/synereo/@ervin-lemark/synereo-divorce-story-news-from-december-12th-2016)
[Insightful Comment of a leaving team member](https://medium.com/@eeik/brokechain-an-apology-to-the-synereo-community-from-one-who-walked-away-8243720ceecf#.rnvpt3duk)
The departing CTO heads http://rchain.coop/ which may continue [RChain](https://web.archive.org/web/20161018221037/https://blog.synereo.com/2016/09/05/meet-rchain-the-first-scalable-blazing-fast-turing-complete-blockchain/) development if funding can be achieved.
Would be a pity to see this project die. But even if, the research done so far may go into Ethereum. There was already collaboration in the development of Casper ([link](https://blog.synereo.com/2015/07/23/ethereumsynereo3-2/))