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It would be a solution yes. It would take some work, but not necessarily too difficult. I believe graphene is open-source. You could start from there.

IIRC cleanroom engineering means you have to have a 'dirty' engineer thoroughly document the existing product, and then a 'clean' engineer has to look at the documentation and reproduce the behavior of the original product, without getting dirty by looking at it. True, the clean engineer could start at Bitshares with its free license which would be a good headstart. But it's not trivial, and the documentation might be a bit harder than it sounds.

Right I see, yes, as far as I can tell the graphene blockchain is open source, so I guess it would be building it up from the ground.

Difficult, but not impossible; in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if someone was doing it right now!

Cg

What makes you think Steemit Inc owns all the IP to steemd? We have no CLA.

I don't know what CLA is, and I said Steemit inc owns the IP to Steem the cryptocurrency.

Cg

@cryptogee Outside of the implementation of steemd, there is no other IP to STEEM the cryptocurrency. You seem to be confused.

Without a CLA, Steemit Inc doesn't even own all the IP to steemd. There are no rights assignments to Steemit Inc from outside contributors.