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Washed Up

Alex Russell

Jonty Wareing @jonty Short version: The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from. Blockchain protocols. Oh, and that URL is not the media. What is the web proper? Cryptocurrencies.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 29th, 2018

High Scalability

Quirky : Thus there is a tradeoff: separateness enables inventors to create heterodox ideas, but strong cohesive networks are likely to be better for getting them implemented. Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. Blockchain is a solution in search of problems. They were implementations of solutions to problems.

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Monitoring Distributed Systems

Dotcom-Montior

There was a time when standing up a website or application was simple and straightforward and not the complex networks they are today. By definition, a distributed system is any system that comprises of multiple components on variety of machines that work together to appear as a single, organized system. The recipe was straightforward.

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