[moritonal]

I think a bias against crypto is clouding your argument. Reading the whitepaper makes me wish Bitcoin had never existed, given I imagine plenty of people would apploud many of the ideas in it.

With all the flaws of npm, people do want to be able to have a immutable, mirrorable package-repository with a trust framework they can independently confirm. This does that, along with clever extras like "tasters" who stake a certain amount of value before confirming a package does x.

It's.. sad, that any tech that uses blockchain is now doomed to flag-death because of everything. I get it, but can't help but wonder how I'd have felt reading this paper 10 years ago.