> Now is the time to start a new company or project, not 5 or 10 years from now when the tech has matured. Actually, I'd rather start the new company 5 or 10 y

> Now is the time to start a new company or project, not 5 or 10 years from now when the tech has matured. Actually, I'd rather start the new company 5 or 10 years from now when the tech has matured. It's the same reason the company I'm currently on relies primarily on boring PHP stuff and the more boring parts of Docker, not the newer tech that I'd rather be using. The time that could be spent chasing stuff that might be fads or might be an advantage is better spent directly working with customers to better understand their problems and exploring directly-business-relevant parts of the solution space. That and the blockchain really is "just" a distributed database. It's potentially very useful, because of the way it tackles the trust problems, but if you're not sure whether you need it or not, then you probably don'.