[ForHackernews]

You've had 10+ years to come up with something useful to do with a blockchain!

Ten years after the web opened for commercial use we had Google, eBay, Amazon, Facebook.

Ten years after Napster we had BitTorrent, Kazaa, a dozen others sued into irrelevance.

Ten years after the first smartphone we had...everything we do with smartphones today.

Like c'mon, if this technology is so revolutionary and transformative when are we going to see it transform something, anything, beyond illegal drug sales and ransomware!

[noxer]

We have DEXs and it didn't take 10 years only 5 or so. There is plenty more stuff only possible with DLTs. By the time mainstream uses its products they wont know it runs on DLTs just like people using tiktok dont know it runs on TCP/IP. yet TCP/IP was once a stupid idea no one needed either. You couldn't even call someone with it.

[markburns]

Well perhaps we’re 10 years since ARPANET. And the World Wide Web hasn’t been invented just yet.

[erickj]

you need to recognize that this is work being done by collectives of people scattered across the globe.

the coordination of this effort is more akin to countries negotiating a treaty than operations inside of a silicon valley garage startup.

also, 10 years is really not a very long time.