[tombert]

Sure, I'll totally acknowledge that some of the distributed algorithms that have spun out of the blockchain are pretty cool, and I'll even go as far as to say that maybe someday we'll find some very cool high-value uses from them.

Pretend money, at least in my opinion, is not one of those uses.

[phil21]

It’s been about 15 years now. The killer app for blockchain is Bitcoin.

[tombert]

I don't know, I think some of the papers for distributed consensus might lead to something cool; if nothing else it does seem to be increasing the use of formal methods, which I think is neat.

These things can take time; it might be thirty years or more before someone does anything actually useful with the stuff learned from the crypto world.