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Doesn't this assume that Blockchains are useful?

• rolltiide 7y ago
  It is sponsored by organizations that have utility for blockchains and believe it can have utility for others
  • ForHackernews 7y ago
    ...well, Amazon just likes selling shovels to miners...
    • rolltiide 7y ago
      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.
      • wmf 7y ago
        Amazon wants people to create bitstreams that run on FPGAs rented from Amazon. They're paying people to develop more demand for their shovels.