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Be your own bank cannot be solved by a plain database, as it doesn't ship with the trustless features most blockchain networks offer. The network is there. When bitcoin came out it solved that problem but the network took years to expand enough to guarantee integrity. That's what has been happening in crypto, in the early years, network expansion, fed by speculative investment (speculation can have its merit, see). Then came more elaborated DeFI and non DeFI supporting techs. (Smart contract, faster and cheaper blocks networks for micro transactions, anonymity/privacy networks etc). Yes, business use cases continue to lag, but in a decade the progress is to me so astonishing, not so disappointing. Perhaps worth mentioning, the traditional system via, via regulators working for we know who, and massive media fear mongering is not to be ignored, the injustice will lose in the long run, but it's pretty clear it has contributed to limit adoption, hence the emergence of more concrete, useful to socity use cases, other than auto generated Punk Monkeys for degenerated moneybgrabbers. |