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lowkeyfaust•

My sources inside AWS also indicate there is basically no actual customer demand or interest in the managed blockchain services offering

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SirBellender•

Yeah because Bitmain can spin up fake nodes in their own warehouse for much cheaper.

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frizzyhaired•

i wonder why nobody wants to buy a slow database?

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Isogash•

Lol, so true too, the future in decentralised systems are protocols for peer-to-peer authentication and authorization, not trustless consensus, where the only application is pretty much trading. Blockchain is literally the wrong tree, but because it's a massive scam opportunity and people fucking love money, it's received all of the attention.

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hoyeto•

Chips start falling down.

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jstolfi•

That is not fair. You must compare blockchain to other databases that were developed for super specific niche applications and abysmally failed at them.

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Bitcoin isn't calculated risk, you're right. It's downright and painfully obvious that it will consume global finance.

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bhiitc•

https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/consensys-expands-blockchain-service-capabilities-on-microsoft-azure/

But then there's this message from 3 days ago?

They're shutting down their general "blockchain as a service" thing but a Quorum (permissioned Ethereum) based service will be available?

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Karyo_Ten•

Yes, instead of providing IaaS at Azure, Consensys will provide Quorum as SaaS. More value added, because manging the low-level infra is painful so might as well go all the way.

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finaldriveOP•

I read it as, Microsoft is getting out of doing it themselves and leaving it mostly to Consensys (running on top of Azure infra.)

Various explanations for this are possible, but it's not typically the kind of thing they'll do if the product is getting a lot of adoption and customer interest.

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riktigt_gott_mos•

I'm surprised it took this long.

I can't imagine how anyone in their right mind could look at Azure's offerings and think "You know what? I want the slowest, most expensive and most unproven option. That's probably what our business needs".

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