Dixon: Blockchain miner networks operate as a decentralized, public version of AWS
Chris Dixon · a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols · Jan 2, 2019 · at 12:33
Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, explains how blockchain networks introduce open operational services rather than just static open-source software code.
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“We've had open source software. We've never had open, open services. So these are services, OPEX, running So basically, effectively, it's a public AWS, is what you should think of as the miner network.”
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