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by 3pt14159 1364 days ago
The reality right now is that there are coloured coins by default. We said this would happen back like at least five years ago, and now it is finally here. This is only the start and is essentially the doom of the libertarian case for the blockchain, and once that is out the window I see very little use for it that a normal DB of cryptographic public keys couldn't handle.
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> The reality right now is that there are coloured coins by default.

Not for fungible coins

Yet.
There is still a diversification benefit, if you distrust the national currency, and use cryptocurrency similarly to gold.

That has been my main (only?) use case.