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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

” Web3 has similarly progressed through “basic blockchain and cryptocurrency tokens” to “decentralized finance” to “NFTs as loyalty cards.” ” Each step has been a twist on “what if we could write code to interact with a tamper-resistant ledger in real-time?

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Understanding Bitcoin’s Impact on Self-governing Quark Fusion Reactors

Tech News Gather

Basics of Bitcoin and the Blockchain Technology Historical Evolution and the Rise of Bitcoin: Bitcoin, introduced in 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, revolutionized the world of finance. It’s a decentralized digital currency, free from government interference, and operates on a technology called blockchain.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only. created_utc?? ?