Where are all the crypto use cases?

Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by danaris on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:11AM (#31823502)

By the dot-com crash in 2000, there were a myriad of clear use cases for the Internet that normal people—those not particularly tech-savvy, and especially not those directly financially invested in Internet companies—used and recognized as very helpful.

Bitcoin has now been around for, what, 13 years? And aside from a very brief explosion of hype around NFTs that most people were fairly quickly able to recognize as nothing but more "greater fool" scams, most people not directly financially invested in blockchain projects either don't know or care blockchain exists, or see it as a bad thing.

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by mirntyfirty on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:10AM (#31824834)

It was interesting how quickly the cloud providers got rid of their block chain offerings.

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by tornato7 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:47AM (#31825291)

Have they? It looks like Azure, AWS, and CloudFlare still have their blockchain services, and Google still maintains Ethereum-ETL. GCP made a big push into the space earlier this year with a dedicated team (but not much has come of that yet).

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Re:Where are all the crypto use cases? by mirntyfirty on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:08PM (#31826432)

That’s what I get for not verifying headlines.

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