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If that’d happened 10 years ago, I think they’d have come out feeling pretty good. Nobody uses blockchain for anything of value except speculation and scamming each other today. Maybe this decade will be different but I’m betting it won’t.

I support this bet. Take any other tech from top of HN, in 10 years it will change the society more than crypto.

Indeed. I bet MySQL will have a bigger impact on society over the next 10 years than crypto will. If anyone wants to take this bet, I suggest stakes lower than the ones John McAffee chose -- he may be one set of genitals short by the end of next year.

That is ironic, as I had 10 years of hindsight coming up with that thought.

Name checks out. I’ll bookmark it too.