I like Schneier's opinion on blockchain: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/02/blockchain_an...

Essentially saying that the only valid use for blockchain is cryptocurrencies (and then you have to decide if you want cryptocurrencies or not).

I would be unsurprised if these folks are just making a point of being tired of having decentralization being conflated with capital by way of blockchains. Some apps don't need them, lots of people tried to shoehorn them in anyway, and a lot of potential and effort was squandered in the name of making money.

That being said, if that really is their take, I wish they'd say so.

At a guess: we have all been watching blockchain stuff evolve for 15 years at this point, we understand exactly how it works and what it does and we don't like it.

This is a “corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit” forum not a true hacker space.

However, also blockchain is a platform for cryptocurrencies with no other use cases. Cryptocurrencies are mostly scams, bubbles and criminality.

In essence you are wrong about this forum and about blockchain.

Being "mostly scams" doesn't make cryptocurrencies useless. Otherwise you may also say the same about cash, Tor, darknet, emails and many other things.