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by mjdesa 1618 days ago
Why has interoperability failed in the past? Why don’t we have it today?
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Because the money and the interest is not in interoperability. It's in chunking everything in small bits and selling every small bit repeatedly.
Why would we get it thanks to blockchains?
Because they’re open ledgers.

I think of blockchain like I do JavaScript / JSON.

Are the perfect? No. But there’s a lot of time and energy being put into them and sometimes that’s all you really need to get things going.

> Because they’re open ledgers.

As I explained in another comment in the same thread, it's a far cry from ensuring interoperability. The term "open ledger" is also misguiding since it's just an open ledger of whatever you want to put there, it doesn't necessarily reflect even a representative part of a whole system that would provide some kind of financial service.

As another commenter explained regarding video ownership, there's also no incentive to move any old and non-interoperable system there to begin with.