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+@Article{VITALIK,
+  author = "Vitalik Buterin",
+  title = "The Meaning of Decentralization",
+  url = "https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76a274",
+  year = "2017",
+  note = "[Online; accessed 14-November-2017]"
+}
+
+
+@Article{SRG,
+	author = "Synergy Research Group SRG",
+	title = "Hyperscale Operators Continue Ramping Up Share of Cloud Markets",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://www.srgresearch.com/articles/hyperscale-operators-continue-ramping-share-cloud-markets"
+}
+
+@Article{CISCO,
+	author = "Cisco",
+	title = "Cisco Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2015 - 2020",
+	year = "2016",
+	url = "https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/global-cloud-index-gci/white-paper-c11-738085.pdf"
+}
+
+@Article{GARTNER,
+	author = "Gartner",
+	title = "Forecast Analysis: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2Q17 Update",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://www.gartner.com/doc/3803517"
+}
+
+@Misc{KUBE,
+	author = "J.Beda and B.Burns and C.McLuckie",
+	title = "Kubernetes",
+	year = "2014",
+	url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes"
+}
+
+@Article {DOPS,
+	author = "Larimer, Daniel",
+	title = "Delegated Proof-of-Stake (DPoS)",
+	year = "2014",
+	url = "https://bitshares.org/technology/delegated-proof-of-stake-consensus/"
+}
+
+@Article {DEX,
+	author = "J.Kwon and E.Buchman",
+	title = "Cosmos Distributed Exchange",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos/blob/master/DEX.md"
+}
+
+@Article {OmiseGO,
+	author = "J.Poon and OmiseGO",
+	title = "OmiseGO: Decentralized Exchange and Payments Platform",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://cdn.omise.co/omg/whitepaper.pdf"
+}
+
+@Article {STELLER,
+	author = "J.Kim",
+	title = "Safety, liveness and fault tolerance - the consensus choices",
+	year = "2014",
+	url = "https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_tolerance_consensus_choice/"
+}
+
+@Article {USCODE1960,
+	author = "US Penal Code",
+	title = "18 U.S. Code § 1960 - Prohibition of unlicensed money transmitting businesses",
+	year = "1960",
+	url = "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1960"
+}
+
+@Article{FORRESTER,
+	author = "Forrester",
+	title = "Predictions 2018: Cloud Computing Accelerates Enterprise Transformation Everywhere",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://www.forrester.com/report/Predictions+2018+Cloud+Computing+Accelerates+Enterprise+Transformation+Everywhere/-/E-RES139611"
+}
+
+@Article{BDO,
+	author = "BDO",
+	title = "Technology Outlook Survey",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://www.bdo.com/getattachment/022227f4-aa2e-4a8b-9739-b0ad6b855415/attachment.aspx?2017-Technology-Outlook-Report_2-17.pdf"
+}
+
+@Article{AEC,
+	author = "Amazon",
+	title = "Amazon ElastiCache",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/"
+}
+
+@Article{AECPRICING,
+	author = "Amazon",
+	title = "Amazon ElastiCache Pricing",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/pricing/"
+}
+
+@Article{EC2PRICING,
+	author = "Amazon",
+	title = "Amazon EC2 Pricing",
+	year = "2017",
+	url = "https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/"
+}
+
+@Article{ACCENTURE,
+	author = "Huan Liu",
+	title = "A Measurement Study of Server Utilization in Public Clouds",
+	year = "2011",
+	url = "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6118751/"
+}
+
+@Article{NYT,
+	author = "James Glanz",
+	title = "Power, Pollution and the Internet",
+	year = "2012",
+	url = "http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html"
+}
+
+@Article{MCKINSEY,
+	author = "James Kaplan and William Forrest and Noah Kindler",
+	title = "Revolutionizing Data Center Energy Efficiency",
+	year = "2008",
+	url = "https://www.sallan.org/pdf-docs/McKinsey_Data_Center_Efficiency.pdf"
+}
+
+@Article{ANTHESIS,
+	author = "Jonathan Koomey and Jon Taylor",
+	title = "New data supports finding that 30 percent of servers are 'Comatose', indicating that nearly a third of capital in enterprise data centers is wasted",
+	year = "2015",
+	url = "https://anthesisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Case-Study_DataSupports30PercentComatoseEstimate-FINAL_06032015.pdf"
+}