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by zzzpaz 1812 days ago
None of this is widely used. The only widely used purpose of blockchain is trading.

> But 10 years is a short time span. Internet took more time than that to mature.

10 years in tech is definitely enough. Most of the biggest trend mature and get widely used in 10 years.

Smartphone from 2007 (iphone) / 2008 (android) to 2017/2018 has been having a massive adoption everywhere in the world.

Windows from 1995 to 2005 (with XP already around since 2001) has proven the same.

Cloud technology, from 2006 to 2016, definitely has still room to go but already widely used.
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shivekkhurana 1811 days ago
iPhone was launched in 2007, and it was a common object in 2018. But I don't think they started developing the iPhone in 2007. It was a dream of the 80s, limited by Moore's law.

However, it's pointless to argue. If you think it's doomed, then so be it. But your argument is not rational.

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zzzpaz 1811 days ago
The same goes for blockchain if you want go to that extend. Blockchain is a concept of 1982. Nakamoto stated to work on the code for bitcoin in 2007 and released in 2009.

> Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups."

Your argument is not rational, you cannot just throw false statements without even proposing proof of what you aim to claim.

> I don't think they started developing the iPhone in 2007

Development of what was to become the iPhone began in 2004. Just 3 years before being publicly available, which is similar to the two years of development for BTC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_iPhone https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

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lifeplusplus 1811 days ago
iphone was also a hardware product, not a direct comparision.
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zzzpaz 1811 days ago
It's an example to dispute the false claim that 10 years is little time for a technology to mature. If 10 years are enough for hardware let alone software.

Another example are social media, from 2004 to 2014, they were widely used by almost everybody that has an internet connection (Facebook had more than 1 billions active users back then)

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lifeplusplus 1810 days ago
I agree, comparing hardware product growth with software product is insincere
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