Just stumbled upon this project. Has anybody here heard of it?

From their website:

"Gems is the protocol for decentralized mechanical turk. People will use Gems to complete micro tasks.

There are 3 levels to Gems:
Gems Protocol: The Gems Protocol assesses the validity of work and trust of network participants; DApps will be built on top of the Gems Protocol

Gems Platform: The first platform built off of the Gems Protocol; pairs workers and requesters for micro tasks.
Modules: Reusable open-source task interfaces built on the Gems Platform

Anyone can build on the Gems Protocol, creating innovative verification methods for new types of work. For a quick introduction to Gems, you can check out our blog post: https://blog.gems.org/introducing-gems-the-protocol-for-decentralized-mechanical-turk-8bd5ef29ca82. For a more in-depth exploration, you can read our white paper: https://gems.org/whitepaper.pdf.
What are micro tasks?

Micro tasks are small, simple tasks that require human judgment and can be completed independently over the Internet. Examples of micro tasks include labelling pictures and transcribing audio to text. You can read more about micro tasks in our blog post dedicated to them.
What problem does Gems solve?

Gems reduces consensus by redundancy, increases pay for individual workers while decreasing total pay for requesters, creates efficient interfaces, eliminates large fees, allows others to build innovative DApps on top of it, and enables computer literate workers with internet to work with or without a bank account."

So this project could really become a vital part in the future of the digital economy and help employees earn more than they do with amazon.

The founders both studied at Harvard, are Thiel fellows and were in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

Really a project to look out for.

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Has anyone heard of this project?

https://dfinity.network

Any thoughts?

A friend, he's rather old and knows nothing about crypto, wants to invest here

http://newblockchain.net/wordpress/en/

It seems like a very badly executed scam to me but it's interesting how they placed triggers that appeal to my friend (swiss company, investments into non tech assets etc.).

So, has anybody heard of this?