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I'll +1 this. Dismissing the block-chain concept because the current implementations are not good replacement pour our best existing techs is like saying to not

• detaro 10y ago
  I think most people here pretty clearly see that blockchains can be useful. But tons of relatively unsuccessful projects or worse, projects with grand claims and no details and evidence behind it cause widespread skepticism against new projects that don't clearly argue why they don't fit the pattern. Serious blockchain projects have a lot of "allies" that make them look pretty bad there. Projects that clearly fit the pattern of good use cases get a lot less flak than startups or initiatives that do further out things and don't talk about details. Unclear definitions (e.g. is a distributed ledger without expensive proof-of-work a blockchain or not?) are another issue.
• davidgerard 10y ago
  I think dismissing it because the current implementations are still startlingly awful after several years, with really obvious feasibility problems for their posited use cases, is fair enough really. At this point the burden of proof really is pretty much entirely on the blockchain advocates. Bring a technically feasible use case to the table.