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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.