Well done for sticking up for reason. I first got involved in Bitcoin in early 2011, but left the whole scene in 2015 because of the dwindling number of seriou

Well done for sticking up for reason. I first got involved in Bitcoin in early 2011, but left the whole scene in 2015 because of the dwindling number of serious programmers and innovators and the increasing number of fraudsters and "marketers". Like you say, there are some incredibly innovative uses for the blockchain (another excellent one is claiming and tracking digital works of art like visual arts and music), but using the blockchain as a simple database replacement is ludicrous.