Understanding GDP

Whats the real use case for a blockchain other than a cryptocurrency

Common web apps in the distributed world.

Distributed everything

Or decentralization, however we term it, one paradigm shift that we are witnessing is the transition to deentralized computing. Predominantly driven by “cryptocurrencies as the antidote to centralized money printing that is supposedly endangering global finance”, school of thought. With that said premise, I tend to think,

The beginning, sometime in the future

It is my belief that progress plateaus once you reach a state of satisfaction. Which is why most of the progress on this planet is driven by gree

I happened to be just browsing through Paxos made simple and trying to undersand the principles that have become the bedrock for clustering and horizontally scalable applications, including databases.

Often, in the startup world I come across this choice paradox that investors seem to face. What is the predmoinant critera that drives our investments. Do we invest in people first or market first or technology first. Sequoia proudly invests in markets first and A16Z prodouly invests in people/team. So what has driven the most tectonic shifts in technology in this century ?

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