Ask HN: Is the Blockchain Hype Ended?

I think this is an interesting question because HN is relatively quiet relative to the bigger events deep in crypto land (eg. new protocols / markets / etc), whereas for everything else tech, speculative or not, you usually see HN activity.

So I think the hype is still on its way up (looking at things like DeFi), but I think the overlap between the crowd that's hyped + HN readers is slowly decreasing (even as a lot of that crowd reads HN today).

In my personal opinion, it is just getting started. There are people from many countries who are looking at crypto as a means to do their living and blockchain is getting more and more visibility. There are govts. trying to block the blockchain developments because of the traceability and immutability properties.

https://defipulse.com is the new hype. The ICO hype has turned into DeFi hype. Plus NFT's and decentralized storage hype around the corner.

Reddit also added ETH-based coins to some subreddits this year and is doing an ETH scaling competition - https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/hbjx25/the_great_...

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Not yet I think. I still see a lot of people trying to use BlockChain to start a company that could totally be done without blockchain and their primary aim is to use blockchain than solving the problem. Personally met 1 guy and see many on reddit etc.

Based on the number of git activity that's publicly viewable (not to mention the actual on-chain transactions which are viewable across the hundreds of different blockchains), I'm going to say no.

Definitely not over. A lot of investment going into the sector.