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"New". The crypto bros already thought of this for GPUs years ago (they probably weren't the first), and the basic idea goes at least as far back as SETI@Home.
So the top response is asking the painfully obvious question: how is this secure? Some dude (not sure if it's one of the startup employees) responds "Let's just use homomorphic encryption!" then throws a pissy fit because some people downvoted the suggestion of running extremely inefficient computation on rented hardware.