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Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by sanderjd on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:20PM (#19227660)
I frequently see commercials that must have cost millions of dollars to create and place that make the opposite argument. If what you're saying is true, the whole industry is just selling snake-oil, and (I think?) people are buying it. The more likely scenario, it seems to me, is that lots of these people actually believe in good faith that this is actually useful technology. If you assume that's the case, it makes sense for people to continue pointing out why that may not be true.
Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by briatx on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#19227879)
> The whole industry is just selling snake-oil, and (I think?) people are buying it.

No, not people in the sense of end user customers. The industry is selling snake oil and some investors have bought into it and subsequently promote it.

10 years down the road and they're still trying to find a mainstream use case, but they won't find it because in the end using a blockchain makes everything harder if you are a legal enterprise.

Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by arcticbull on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:46PM (#19229414)
Just because a lot of people do something doesn't make it a good idea.