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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

Course 280
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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform.

Platform 150