There's some serious kool-aid going on here, which is unfortunate, because they at least wrote that they're focused on non-speculative use cases. Contrary to th

There's some serious kool-aid going on here, which is unfortunate, because they at least wrote that they're focused on non-speculative use cases. Contrary to the announcement's characterization, crypto-powered platforms don't inherently fulfill the promise of equitable decentralization and immutability. Ethereum has already demonstrated that one is wise to worry if the rules of the game will change later on. And blockchains enable distributed, trustless consensus, but accomplish it with the majority (50%+1) of vested nodes in agreement, which manifests as either a tenuous truce based on human trust to avoid mutually-assured destruction, or as an anything-goes monopoly where the largest cartel wins. Hardly any different from easier, cheaper ways of accomplishing the same thing. Bitcoin's innovation was incentive in the PoW block reward, Ethereum's was embedding a VM in the client. Everything else has been minor variations on prior art, or speculative bullshit.