> The usual complaint of web developers is that they're endlessly drawn to new things I'm referring to a new way of constructing software, using a transactiona

> The usual complaint of web developers is that they're endlessly drawn to new things I'm referring to a new way of constructing software, using a transactional database at the core and defining every event as a transaction between two parties. Today engineers usually think of the platform as a distribution medium for data, aka. client-server. In the BC world refining this so that any party can take on any role, aka. decentralized/distributed is challenging. I'm trying to explain that this go far beyond a new JS framework or (no-)sql database, in the BC environment the engineer must be able to define and code business rules. > Since those [p2p] products all failed I don't think p2p failed because of technology, but rather because mgmt/industry wanted to keep control. See e.g Spotify or Skype as examples, there are many other interests at play than pure technological. > tax evasion (value added tax and in some case corp. tax) I agree with your view, but if you examine today's platform economies this is exactly what they have done to a large extent. They give away "free" services only to cash in on your personal data from a near tax free country setup. Examples are FB, Google, Apple, Amazon..