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Startups could improve in 2 wasy:

Perhaps popular culture should review the use of nosql databases, and then spending tremendous effort to try and make it into a relational database, while nosql databases can be setup to be eventually consistent.

Money, and accurate accounting don't work too well when the inputs to a calculation of a balance are eventually consistent.

So much work is avoided at times it seems to not learn SQL that it can rival or end up being more work once NOSQL leads you down the path of inevitable relational needs.

In addition to this, maybe it's time to build honeypot ledgers with a prize and reward in it for anyone who can hack or undermine it, similar to vulnerability bounties. Run for long enough, it would determine at least that one side of security mistakes in startups being reduced. Run a sprint, with prizes and let them run like daily deal fantasy and watch things harden.



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