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Digesting 2022

O'Reilly

And while I haven’t mentioned Google and Facebook, they have demoed equivalents to most of these applications. And there isn’t a blockchain or a token in sight. Which does lead us to blockchains and crypto. I’m not going to engage in Schadenfreude here, but I’ve long wondered what can be built with blockchains.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

ARPA funded the demo at a cost of $1 million. David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% “Many companies will halt their blockchain tests this year.

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