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by ThomPete 2977 days ago
Imagine talking about TCP/IP in the late 1980ies. This is great but mostly limited to academia.

The blockchain isn't interesting as a business case any more than TCP/IP was.

The blockchain is the foundation of a new decentralized infrastructure for the digital space (which physical properties), but we still haven't "opened up the internet" to the public.
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Yizahi 2977 days ago
Let me fix this for you - "Imagine talking about IPX in the late 1980ies. The blockchain isn't interesting as a business case any more than IPX was."
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ska 2977 days ago
Thank you. That's the key acknowledgement missing from nearly all the breathless descriptions of "where this is going".
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ThomPete 2977 days ago
Care to elaborate? Not sure I understand.
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Yizahi 2977 days ago
IPX was a rather popular internet protocol in the late 80s, it was a TCP/IP competitor and during 90s it was often present in application configurations as a equivalent of TCP/IP, usually only these 2, no other choices. It wasn't really scalable and completely lost to TCP/IP soon.

You present blockchain as a new "TCP/IP" (meaning successful technology) but it might as well be a new "IPX", left on the margins of history books after a decade of struggle. Currently nobody knows for sure.

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ThomPete 2977 days ago
The blockchain is nearing it's 10th anniversary with no sign of slowing down when it comes to people investing time in it.

Furthermore as far as I am aware there is not BlockchainX

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