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by m-i-l 2755 days ago
The source for the article's "Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate" headline is "We documented 43 blockchain use-cases through internet searches ... we found no documentation or evidence of the results blockchain was purported to have achieved"[0]. That isn't a huge sample size, and "internet searches" may have skewed the results towards the more dubious projects spending large amounts on SEO.

But never-the-less I'd echo the interest in reading details of a successfully implemented use-case for public blockchain technology, beyond cryptocurrencies. Based on some of the comments here hinting that there might be some, and assuming they do indeed exist, I suspect that they are not solutions that could be achieved only with blockchain technology (like cryptocurrencies), or even solutions that are significantly better (in terms of cost, effort, time to market or some other metric) with blockchain technology, but simply solutions where blockchain has been made to work (i.e. other approaches could have been too and some of those may have been as good if not better).

[0] http://merltech.org/blockchain-for-international-development...