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Amazon launches ‘Q’ — a ChatGPT competitor purpose-built for business

Employees in HR, legal, product management, design, manufacturing and operations departments will benefit from Q, said AWS CEO Adam Selipsky.

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AWS went down in the US, but Ethereum kept humming

Ethereum hummed along through the latest AWS outage but one commentator said its reliance on Lido for staking could cause issues in the future.

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FTX Debtors Reveal $6.8 Billion Hole in Balance Sheet Amidst Financial Discrepancies and Payments to Insiders

According to a presentation recently submitted by the FTX debtors on March 16, Sam Bankman-Fried’s companies had a $6.8 billion hole in their intercompany balance sheet when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. FTX and its conglomerate of firms have debts of around $11.6 billion, including customer claims and various other liabilities. FTX’s $6.8 […]

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FTX-Hosted NFTs Point to Broken Metadata, Issue Illuminates Flaws With NFTs Tied to Centralized Clouds

On Wednesday, non-fungible token (NFT) supporters discovered that NFT metadata hosted on the platform FTX US points to broken metadata, and the links now point to FTX’s restructuring website. Specific collections that were minted on the Solana blockchain via the FTX US NFT platform do not show the NFT’s imagery and marketplace listings on the […]

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Nigeria Based Storage Provider Says It’s Too Risky for the World to Rely Centralized Cloud Storage Platforms

In the past year, internet giants like Amazon and Google all experienced outages which were blamed on errors and failed upgrades. The occurrence of such outages and their impact around the world again highlighted the importance of having a decentralized internet. Also, just like how the Covid-19 pandemic showed the world that blockchain-based digital currencies […]

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Finance Redefined: AWS turns crypto exchanges offline, and Sushi CTO resigns, Dec. 3–10

An AWS outage sent shockwaves around the crypto industry, Delong left his role as Sushi CTO, and Coinbase opened a cryptography library — all coming to you in this week’s Finance Redefined.

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AWS Seeks a Specialist to Develop Amazon’s ‘Digital Currency and Blockchain Strategy Roadmap’

This past summer the American multinational technology company, Amazon, published two job listings for a blockchain lead and a digital currency expert. Now Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a principal digital assets specialist that can “help drive adoption across the global digital asset community.” AWS Is Looking for a Principal Digital Assets Specialist […]

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Ethereum now available on Amazon Managed Blockchain

Amazon Web Services users reportedly have the ability to “provision Ethereum nodes” as well as connect to the blockchain’s mainnet and other testnets.

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Amazon Web Services Now Includes a Blockchain-As-A-Service Option

Various technology companies have shown a keen interest in offering blockchain-as-a-service features. By doing so, these technology giants are allowing distributed ledgers to thrive, while also making it easier for developers to build new decentralized applications. Amazon Web Services is the latest company to offer BaaS, which is a rather surprising development. A Curious Decision by Amazon For quite some time now, people have been wondering if and when Amazon would get on board with either blockchain or cryptocurrency. While it seems highly unlikely the firm will ever support Bitcoin payments or related currencies, Amazon acknowledges the potential of blockchain technology.

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