Careful not to conflate things like hash trees with Blockchains. The former do get used for stuff like certificate transparency logs right now, because it is a sensible technology. Blockchains could do exactly the same thing (because they’re based on the same underlying principle), only with much more expense and waste, so there’s basically no point.
By this point, I think it’s pretty obvious that blockchain doesn’t have any good use cases beyond financial speculation and scams/fraud.
YOU WOULD THINK THAT, BUT
sanctions evasion and money laundering, and that’s basically it
It has one legitimate use case that I can think of. Immutable audit logs, even then there are better options.
so in practice it actually doesn’t, and enterprise “blockchain” systems tend to evolve:
multiple such cases!
exactly, like I said, there is only 1 thing it could be used for, but there are better options for that anyway.
Blockchain, the solution in search of a problem.
Careful not to conflate things like hash trees with Blockchains. The former do get used for stuff like certificate transparency logs right now, because it is a sensible technology. Blockchains could do exactly the same thing (because they’re based on the same underlying principle), only with much more expense and waste, so there’s basically no point.