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Take you standard Amazon warehouse for small articles as an example. Maximizing untilisation, meaning the ratio between space used und spa e available, in that case you end up with a never ending mixture of differwnt small articles in the same location. Without RFID chips on every article, which is as of now prohibitively expensive, the only feasible way to count the inventory is using people.

For other warehouses and articles, like white goods or other large stuff that easily identified with out touching it whether a drone, a ground vehicle or something running on rails is better suited depends on a couple of factors. If you might run into situations that require a chenged warehouse layout, which occurs much more often than you think, fixed installations add a lot to the fix costs and rwduce flexibility.

Using ground based solutions runs into issues with high warehouses, storing up to 15 meters in height is not uncommon. Again, density is the main reason for this, getting more inventory at the se number of square meters. In that case a drone is both more flexible and can cover the heights as well.

But thats theory, not sure what came out of the Fraunhofer trials covering white goods.

I see cryptocurrencies as an offshoot of people misunderstanding what a blockchain can/can't do, and those seeking to profit from this misunderstanding.

I see the blockchain as a new way to structure data, e.g. a new type of database. It can be used to create a ledger/method of exchange within a financial system, but to me the underlying technology is not financial in nature, it's just a new way to structure and store data.

The way the blockchain is implemented in Bitcoin is ideal for a decentralized financial system, but to me it is much less efficient than a system relying on a trusted 3rd party for accounting/balancing ledgers. This is the fundamental tradeoff - efficiency/trust.

Among myself/my friends, I don't see anyone desperate for an alternative to the mainstream system, I actually see good progress in fintech companies such as Venmo/TransferWise/Monzo etc. that are getting bought up by the bigger banks/payments providers. But if I was trying to move more money across stricter borders, I could see the desire for new financial products/systems (legality aside).

I'll check back in with you in a year to see what's up ;)

Said another way: given the number of liabilities at a company that has taken hundreds of millions in funding and is flying low over the ground, a lease is probably not you biggest concern.