[brabel]

Ideas like you suggest have been discussed on this forum uncountably many times. Blockchains in general as well, for well over 10 years now.

This stuff may look new and revolutionary to some, but if you've been here long enough you've already seen that stuff go through the hype cycle[1] and it has NOT emerged, at least so far, at the end of that curve looking good.

I am currently working on some stuff where blockchains are actually a potential solution (very related to public key cryptography, by the way), but the problems with it as a solution to anything except digital casinos are so numerous and the scams so prevalent in this space that it's next to impossible to come up with genuinely useful applications and services that rely on it. That's the reason why usages of this technology are currently extremely limited, not because there's some sort of conspiracy to stop it from succeeding!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

[criddell]

I've started to look at blockchains as a solution in search of a problem.

[kuramitropolis]

So was the Internet during the dotcom boom. And now the Internet is part of the problem. The Gartner cycle is an epicycle.

[criddell]

I don't quite get what you mean. The internet was designed and used to connect networks of computers. I started using it for email, gopher, and ftp in 1989 but it was 20 years old at that point.

[kuramitropolis]

I mean the Web.