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Re:Coinbase acquires decentralized cryptocurrency trading pl... by shanev on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:45PM (#17139537)
In 5 years both sharding and Plasma would be implemented on Ethereum. NASDAQ would probably run its own Plasma chain or sidechain and wouldn’t be beholden to the main chain’s throughput.
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Re:Coinbase acquires decentralized cryptocurrency trading pl... by tomjakubowski on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:59PM (#17139634)
> NASDAQ would probably run its own Plasma chain

If they're running a blockchain on their own, doesn't that defeat the point?

> To eliminate _single points of failure, siloing and centralized control_.

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