Yet here we are. With a globally traded decentralized token. What more evidence do you need that “the game has changed”?
It's difficult to claim "Something has changed the game", if it can't even accomplish being noticable in its absence.
It exists, and it can sometimes be used, and some people think it will be used. Thats about all you can say about it.
That is, bitcoin doesn't yet justify its own existence. A new one will replace it, but hardly out of necessity, rather simply because it is trivial to do so. If its existence was suddenly erased, few systems would be affected (mostly layer 1 actors, those directly associated with bitcoin: miners, coin devs, a few startups, etc) and most corrected quite quickly. there's not yet a true dependency on cryptocoins or blockchaind; the game is the almost exactly the same as it was with or without the bitcoin paper.
Its not yet changed.
But it won’t vanish. I’m still waiting. If you can make bitcoin vanish I’d give you some credibility. Until then you’re amongst a sea of journalists declaring the death of crypto. I’m waiting for it and I mean that sincerely. Yet here we are.
The phrase "paradigm shift" seems to be thrown around quite a bit ;)
Turns out, as Schneier himself long ago realized, it’s more complicated than that, and the combination of malicious actors and human nature render every technological solution ultimately fallible.
The blockchain is not going to solve the basic issues of human fallibility and gaps in trust. Further attempts to quantify human experience, this time into cryptographic tokens, will not change the goals or capabilities of governments, criminals, corporations, or individuals.
We won’t code our way out of our problems. We need to stop fooling ourselves and start looking for real solutions.