An anecdotal perspective: I am doing blockchain-related innovation work in the B2B software industry and often interact with academia and public institutions (r

An anecdotal perspective: I am doing blockchain-related innovation work in the B2B software industry and often interact with academia and public institutions (research funding providers), as well as with other software vendors. Our problem is that academia and funding providers are way too happy to write papers and fund work on blockchain, while many of the more reasonable software vendors are very careful to not position themselves as blockchain hype idiots. What I see is that we sometimes have to cater to public expectations and at least do some prototyping around blockchain, just to take part in the discussion and to have a clearly articulated position on why blockchain is not a game changer for our particular part of the industry (even if it will take off, it is just one of many technologies in an application stack). I think organizations that embrace the hype a bit more hire some developers to do blockchain-related work to be able to claim that their products are blockchain-based. However, I think the amount of positions that serious, stable companies have open for blockchain developers are negligible. For now, blockchain should be ignored, by all practical means, by anyone who scouts for technologies to learn to increase future career perspectives.