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Comment by Delphiza | Hacker News Reader

Microsoft announced that they are retiring their blockchain project about two weeks before they announced Azure SQL Database ledger. So a centralised solution where parties are trusted - I think.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql/announcing-...

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seems like the engineers were allowed into the decision room

It's funny how true this may actually be. I had a 5 minute discussion with KOLs at my company back when etherium launched trying to square peg-round hole something in the business to run on it. We didn't have any luck. Ultimately, we wanted to own the database/data and if someone wanted to purchase from us/use our services they would have to trust us.

Why is it so difficult to spell Ethereum correctly?

    cat dict.txt | rg "ium$" | uniq | sed -z "s/\n/, /g"

Who knows? Perhaps they thought it would be spelled more similarly to aluminium, ammonium, auditorium, calcium, compendium, cranium, delirium, emporium, encomium, equilibrium, eulogium, exordium, geranium, gymnasium, medium, millennium, odium, omnium, opium, opprobrium, pandemonium, potassium, premium, radium, sodium, tedium, uranium...

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