I think there is little technical to discuss at the moment, because a lot of these companies have not made their direct technicals known. In fact a few of them

I think there is little technical to discuss at the moment, because a lot of these companies have not made their direct technicals known. In fact a few of them have been patenting development[0] they've done with blockchain expressly to protect it from the public (and as one would assume, any potential for gain). We can only speculate on the technical problems if we don't really know for certain what the application is that they have in mind. Everybody seems to see value in blockchain tech, though nobody seems certain what the best applications of it are. I admired the UN's use of Ethereum as a tokenized payment method for refugees to 'purchase' relief supplies at camps in Jordan[1]. Problem is, scale that up to consumer-level transactions and we have a problem (at present, anyway). If you want to go back to discussing the root viability of Ethereum's tech, sure -- but I think that's another subject than the main one in this thread. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/who-owns-blockchain-goldman-bofa-amass-patents-for-coming-wars https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-21/who-owns-... [1] https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/blockchain-fluechtlinge-gefluechtete-camp-azraq-jodanien-wfp-iris-scan https://www.wired.de/collection/tech/blockchain-fluechtlinge...