My less romantic, medium-term outlook on this is that all of these thought-police projects are trying to enforce a combination of nonstate binary answers and an

My less romantic, medium-term outlook on this is that all of these thought-police projects are trying to enforce a combination of nonstate binary answers and an (informational) monoculture to a messy capitalist world with the single technological argument of a distributed/anonymized/encrypted/irreversible database that has little relevance for the actual underlying idea. Looking at the past eight+ years, and other than opening up speculation and dubious activites for a new group of people, we have not seen a single project that would ever highlight the usual required 10x benefits, let alone the promise to change the behavior of the regular user. It's merely porting a fraction of existing stuff behind cumbersome UX — With all respect for infancy of technology but what if porting my contacts, having one single login, a distributed social network or to-do list aren't just that important as the proponents are arguing for? Obvisouly all of these attempts have already failed several times. This is not the equivalent of killing Gopher through HTTP by a new experience, making information available for the first time, introducing a new socially acceptable interaction or killing industries and middlemen by means of __raw__ technology (In each case there was always more to it). Even torrenting is already more or less dead in favor of OTT because people are lazy bastards that don't care how the content gets streamed to their TV. And what if customers actually like collecting flight miles, having someone who picks up the phone when their CC was compromised, when the taxi driver harassed them, their car title got lost or their 401k was hacked off their account? IF breaking up the power consolidation in whatever industry with blockchain tech being the primary method, the starting line is at what's already out there and then offering real advantages and incentives (other than coins) that can only be achieved through a public ledger — Obviously there are potential and often cited areas like real estate, voting and medical records but all of these seem to me as an admistrative job for a missionary movement to enforce standards and not a private startup. And yes, I get the argument for using it in adversarial areas but we're talking business here.