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Net neutrality: unexpected solution to blockchain scaling

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Cloud-delivery networks could dramatically improve blockchains' scalability, but clouds must be provably neutral first.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 5
        May 2019
        83 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3328504
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