It's been about three years since the original release of the whitepaper. It is getting there slowly. One thing that's frustrating in the Bitcoin ecosystem is

It's been about three years since the original release of the whitepaper. It is getting there slowly. One thing that's frustrating in the Bitcoin ecosystem is that it turns out barely anyone actually wants to fund development of the lower levels of the protocol. Most work in "blockchain" is either on complete fluff like ICOs or other white collar scams, or on the exchange side, where you're mostly building fast centralized databasey stuff (trading backends).