I think the key word in your question is "primarily." And because of that I would say not at all. The early Internet was people having the ability to connect an

I think the key word in your question is "primarily." And because of that I would say not at all. The early Internet was people having the ability to connect and communicate with others all over the world. Being able to meet, or learn, or buy from people even in the next state was completely game changing. Before it would have required physical catalogs, or getting someones phone number, etc. But the Internet made it happen at an unbelievable speed which is why it took over. That was it's "job" per se. Did people use this new ability to try to scam others, sure, just like they did with bogus ads for hovercrafts in the back of magazines in prior years. But the technology itself was about this instant communication. So people wanted to move all offline stuff to online. That is why first boom was just things you can do offline, but now online. Buy pet supplies...online. But groceries...online. Etc, while the winners of that era didn't just recreate offline businesses online, but improved them based on the paradigm shift it enabled. Blockchain feels like a technology looking for a "job." I understand there are some countries where maybe the job is being able to move money, although I am not convinced that it is is net positive in those cases. The biggest thing I think I have realized is that I have never been in a situation, where I think to myself, "If I could just use the blockchain to do this, it would be incredible." And if after all of these years, that thought hasn't hit you even once, then I think that says something about whether it is actually improving anything.