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            <h1 class="section-title">This is BigchainDB</h1>
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                1 million writes/s, petabytes of capacity and rich permissioning to power both open and private blockchain networks.
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                <h3>1 Million Writes per Second</h3>
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                <h3>Petabyte Capacity</h3>
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                <h3>Linear Scaling</h3>
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        <p class="lead">BigchainDB allows developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and applications with a scalable blockchain database.</p>

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                <p>BigchainDB fills a gap in the decentralization ecosystem: a decentralized database, at scale. It is complementary to decentralized processing platforms like Ethereum, and decentralized file systems like InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).</p>
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                <h1 class="section-quickstart__title">Install and Run</h1>
                <p>BigchainDB provides a rich API to create, query and transfer digital assets.</p>
                <p><a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://bigchaindb.readthedocs.org/">Read documentation</a> <a class="btn btn-secondary" href="https://github.com/{{ site.github.org }}/{{ site.github.repo }}"><svg class="icon icon--social icon--github"><use xlink:href="/assets/img/sprite.svg#github"></use></svg> GitHub</a></p>
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                        <span class="comment"># install bigchaindb</span>
                        <span><span class="ne">pip</span> install <span class="cp">bigchaindb</span></span><br/>
                        <span class="comment"># start bigchaindb</span>
                        <span><span class="ne">bigchaindb</span> start</span><br/>
                        <span class="comment"># generate some test transactions</span>
                        <span class="comment"># add '-m' if you want to use all your cores</span>
                        <span><span class="ne">bigchaindb-benchmark</span> load</span><br/>
                        <span class="comment"># Learn more about the bigchain command</span>
                        <span><span class="ne">bigchaindb</span> -h</span>
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            <h1 class="section-title">Whitepaper</h1>
            <p class="section-description">BigchainDB: A Scalable Blockchain Database</p>
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            Read our Whitepaper
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