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>> There must be some examples of something useful and popular that has been built, if it's such a revolutionary technology?

That’s a very high bar. There are lots of fun web2 websites that are useless, fun and used by a few people. Also, useful is highly subjective. For example if you are into NFT’s you might find OpenSea popular and useful. If you are not, then you won’t.

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Oh come on. "Useful" is subjective? Either there exists something that serves a purpose to target groups outside of the crypto world or there is not.

They meant useful in general. Forks are useful in general. A stamp database is only useful to stamp collectors and similar.

Honestly this is a great point. A lot of these discussions can be summed up as “what is your definition of useful?”

A gamer, a retail investor, and a backend developer (permit the one-dimensional characters) have very different ideas of what is useful/not useful.

Are you honestly arguing that Wikipedia or Google Maps can be reasonably argued to be not useful depending on the user?

Ease off the throttle a bit man, I'm not sure what the hostility is about.

Of course I don't think that, like I said that was a very one-dimensional example. Of course many things work well for many people. But I imagine different professionals have very different idea of what constitutes "useful" on the internet.

I guess I just poorly communicated my point, it's whatever. Not like I'm dying on this hill here.

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