I work in public sector digitisation. We’ve spent a lot of money on blockchain proof of concepts, sales meetings and general hype. My colleagues in banking have

I work in public sector digitisation. We’ve spent a lot of money on blockchain proof of concepts, sales meetings and general hype. My colleagues in banking have spent even more. All those resources have been a complete waste so far, and they’ve entirely been spent on blockchain because of hype. That is extremely bad, because all those resources could have been thrown at something useful. For whatever reason blockchain has been extremely resilient to reality. It’s almost been a decade, and we’ve yet to see anything purposeful come our way. It’s still on Gartners list for 2019 though, so I guess we’ll spent another year burning money.