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Re:26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead by foobarchu on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:21AM (#16035856)
Normally this is a valid discussion to have, but I don't think it has any merit here. The projects analyzed were launched in 2016. You're suggesting that a statistically significant number of people completed a project centered around a concept as fast-moving and heavily researched as blockchain could be feature-complete and bug free in under a year and a half. I'd believe that maybe a dozen projects like that exist, but not nearly enough to affect these numbers.

The bigger issue here is how many of those 26k projects are dead-end forks for playing around.

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Re:26k blockchain projects launched in 2016, 92% are now dead by onion2k on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:43AM (#16035972)
"Playing around" in many cases will mean "learning the technology", and those developers would have then moved to other blockchain projects. That means the code is "dead" in the sense that it's finished, but it'd be unfair to suggest it's "abandoned".
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