Amazon's sandbox

March 10th, 2017
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THE FEATURE

Blockstack Launches Decentralized Internet Platform on Amazon's AWS


It looks like Amazon wants to give Microsoft a run for its money.

Blockstack Core, a bitcoin-based development platform, is now available on the Amazon Web Services marketplace.

The platform aims to use the bitcoin protocol to build a more secure internet without centralized servers, and simplifies the process of setting up a bitcoin node.

With this incorporation, Amazon will have three offerings in its blockchain "sandbox" - to compete with Microsoft's Azure, perhaps?
 
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