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Matthew Prince

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

And then in the process, we can actually gather that up

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

and say, okay, now we'll turn around and give that to the various publishers.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

At the same time, I think that in order to create that scarcity, you need some sort of tool to be able to keep the scrapers from getting your stuff.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

And so that's exactly where Cloudflare comes in again and says, we can help make sure that people can't have your content unless you let them have your content.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

And that's been a big piece of, again, creating that scarcity, which again, I think is helping now drive demand.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

But that's sort of โ€“ They're fine with war.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

They're just a little union.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

Let's use the term war.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

Yeah.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

Turns out that you have all kinds of antitrust problems if you're coordinating people together in order to compete on price.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

But that's a whole other story, though.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

So essentially... A little asterisk there, but we can come back to that.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

There's a little bit of confusion here because people then assume that we apply that across all 20%.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

And that's actually not right.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

There's a huge percentage of the internet that deeply wants to be, and in fact is working super hard to be in all of these AI systems.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

So just take Cloudflare.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

So Cloudflare, we publish a bunch of knowledge-based articles.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

Those knowledge-based articles are like how you configure our system, how you use our developer tools.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

We want every AI company in the world to have that stuff.

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Cloudflare Needs 100M TPS from Crypto to Fix the Internet | CEO Matthew Prince

We do a whole bunch of things to make it as easy as possible for AI companies to consume that stuff.