Blockchain as plumbing tech

Blockchain tech is getting adopted and most likely it will be used as plumbing tech, not blockchain for everything like it was in 2017 or NFT/meme coin hype during pandemic.

Visa Direct has moved USDC-powered cross-border payment funding from pilot testing into commercial deployment.
Mastercard $MA launches new risk intelligence tool to make crypto stablecoin payments safer.
Tokenized stocks are also getting traction. (xStocks on Kraken, bStocks on Binance etc.)

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Ollama Is Not Reachable Over The Local Network

How Much Downtime Is Acceptable? (GKE Perspective)

GCP Cost Management: BigQuery

Stop Paying for Cloud: Build a Home Lab Instead