People have been talking about blockchains for many years (and in the financial space there are massive orgs all working together on concrete implementations. C

People have been talking about blockchains for many years (and in the financial space there are massive orgs all working together on concrete implementations. Change takes time). The fevered anti-blockchain pitch, on the other hand, has picked up in lockstep with the cryptocurrency hype. If you can't separate them that's a failing. It's a bit like the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, with people who woke up to cryptocurrency hype thinking that everyone became aware simultaneous with them. That you immediately dismissed yourself as "just a write-only distributed database....with a layer of asymmetric cryptography". That is the literal definition of a blockchain. In these sorts of arguments people are so desperate to shoot down "Bitcoin" that we end up with a No True Scotsman situation where everyone completely loses sight of the technology.