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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning
by
_ingsoc
on 31/01/2014, 12:27:56 UTC
They deliberately chose to develop multiple clients in multiple languages reasoning that a single client could be a point of failure i.e. if only one client was used and it faced problems/bugs in future it would effect everybody. In this scenario its impact would not be so utterly complete.

It also gets away from the monoculture, which I think is awesome if you can do it.