People keep thinking it’s going to revolutionize entire industries when really it’s a highly limited and inefficient database technology that no one who isn’t trying to make a buck would suggest using for data storage unless you have the very particular constraints of something like bitcoin.

There’s lots of mature, versatile database options out there: Postgres, SQLite, BerkeleyDB, and countless other NoSQL and CQRS solutions. Blockchain does one thing well, its immutability and intractability are not well suited to many applications.