[shandor]

I think you're still missing the point. I understood that the author was criticizing the mindset of the companies which "want to use blockchain". In those cases, "moving the goal posts" is actually the sensible thing to do, when said companies are looking into the blockchain without understanding if they are actually going to benefit from the core blockchain benefit of decentralization.

There should be nothing wrong in moving the goal posts, when the original goal seems to be the wrong one.

[notahacker]

Yup. Most of the goalpost-moving happens to make "decentralization" the goal in the first place, so elaborate solutions can be devised to eliminate the need to trust partners not to falsify their record of the contract, despite the fact that in many real world situations if they can't trust their partners that far, there's no way they should be giving them access to property, resources or cash in the first place.