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Ask HN: Is HN community resistant to change regarding blockchains?

• flukus 9y ago
  I'm indifferent, not resistant. I've never seen someone put forward an argument for how or why I should care about blockchain.
• sanswork 9y ago
  I'm down in many places and many times saying I think ultimately they will not pan out. I'm still confident in that belief though that isn't to say it won't make a lot of people rich in the short term. I'm also down in many places being wrong about the current increases as I was pretty confident we'd not see it rise above the last bubble again. Outside of black and grey markets I've still not seen one good use case put forward where using a blockchain is better than the centralized or non-blockchain decentralized solution. The day I see that though my beliefs will change and I'll admit I was wrong many times.
• andrewmcwatters 9y ago
  Compared to most things in computer science or software engineering, it's just not tremendously powerful. The use case is highly limited, and real-world applications of it are much more expensive than traditional counterparts. As a result, the payoffs are slim for a majority of potential uses, and highly beneficial for an extreme minority.
• davidgerard 9y ago
  It's been eight years; by now it's entirely fair for people to have lost interest in hypotheticals and ask for real-life use cases, beyond burning venture capital.