> The point is that distributed systems engineers know already about these sets of tradeoffs, and many of the alternatives to them, and with that wider perspect

> The point is that distributed systems engineers know already about these sets of tradeoffs, and many of the alternatives to them, and with that wider perspective see few, if any, reasons to recommend blockchain. It's not really a technical question. People who like blockchains like them because of that set of tradeoffs. Beyond obvious scams and stupid corporate hype (by most of the same people who misused "cloud", btw), people understand the tradeoffs. I don't think that distributed systems experience qualifies you to do any more than understand the tradeoffs, and these specific tradeoffs are understood well by a very large number of people already.