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Re:Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blo... by rolltiide on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:25PM (#20588939)
It is sponsored by organizations that have utility for blockchains and believe it can have utility for others
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Re:Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blo... by ForHackernews on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:37PM (#20589019)
...well, Amazon just likes selling shovels to miners...
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Re:Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blo... by rolltiide on Thursday August 01, 2019 @06:55PM (#20589127)
I'm not sure I really understand that happening in this case, the contest seems to want people to create new hardware, so this wouldn't use Amazon infrastructure.

It is a partial subsidy to the winner. So they aren't really selling shovels they're paying people to develop better shovels.

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Re:Time, Randomness, and a $100k Prize to Forever Change Blo... by wmf on Thursday August 01, 2019 @07:48PM (#20589469)
Amazon wants people to create bitstreams that run on FPGAs rented from Amazon. They're paying people to develop more demand for their shovels.
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