It doesn't even make sense as a competitive advantage since it costs more to maintain than what it brings in. If I owned the cloud service I would only set the capability if the customers demanded it to the point of them switching to a competitor en masse.
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#12Why not skip all of that and work on/with web3 technologies instead?
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#13I wonder what happens if you use a prepaid credit card (e.g., a visa gift card).
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#14Why not skip all of that and work on/with web3 technologies instead?
Working with centralized technologies is much easier than working with the blockchain. Additionally, web3 is not very advanced for its costs. Needing to pay money (even a fraction of a cent) to do basically anything is not a compelling model, especially considering that most of the “fast” blockchains still take a couple of seconds to do anything.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Working with centralized technologies is much easier than working with the blockchain. Additionally, web3 is not very advanced for its costs. Needing to pay money (even a fraction of a cent) to do basically anything is not a compelling model, especially considering that most of the “fast” blockchains still take a couple of seconds to do anything.
Aren't you paying for each service/resource/action with a cloud provider
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#18I do all my spin-up/spin-down testing at Digital Ocean, Vultr, or Hetzner ... even if I happen to forget something's up and running, it's never more than ~$5-10 in a month (and I get the billing statement every month, so I can quickly nix stuff if I did happen to forget about it)