I’m a crypto fence sitter, and I mostly think these things are scams. But I think that the distributed-public-database thing has real value. Companies come and

I’m a crypto fence sitter, and I mostly think these things are scams. But I think that the distributed-public-database thing has real value. Companies come and companies go, and opening up data to the scrutiny of daylight is sorta a prisoner’s dilemma problem much of the time. Building a long-lived business on top of a by-design-public data store seems like a really cool thing. Sure, any company could decide to host a Postgres instance on AWS with world-readable creds. But does that happen? And what happens when the company goes under? Who keeps paying the AWS bills?