[bgitarts]

I guess you could say you don't need Amazon, the problem of getting goods is solved by physical stores. Yet, millions of people find value in ordering through Amazon instead.

There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases.

[hn_throwaway_99]

This is just more "handwaving with a bad analogy", which again only goes to show how hard it is for people to show any real utility for smart contracts.

It is very easy for me to explain and understand the benefit of ordering over Amazon vs. going to a physical store. When Amazon first showed up, I didn't think "Gosh, what is this really for?" or "Can somebody explain to me, simply, what Amazon is for?" No, I went to amazon.com, browsed a giant selection of books, ordered one and it showed up at my house a couple days later. "Wow, that's awesome" I thought.

If you say "There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases." then why is it so difficult for anyone to say what those use cases actually are?? You say it will be "cheaper, better, faster", but are able to offer no concrete examples or rationale as to why.