> The blockchain plan seemed impossible—and that would soon prove to be the case.
As is tradition.
(Did any company _ever_ launch anything borderline successful with The Almighty Blockchain(TM) that wasn't just some sort of token?)
As is tradition.
(Did any company _ever_ launch anything borderline successful with The Almighty Blockchain(TM) that wasn't just some sort of token?)
If it was done in real life too I'm actually at the point where I think that guy is a prophet ;)
So yes, if you exclude the use case for a blockchain, there aren't a lot of blockchain use cases left. But what have you actually accomplished by structuring the question this way?
No. But that only makes the goal more alluring:
"We could be the first company to make this work and unlock the untold riches of Blockchain as foretold by prophecy and the iron will of cryptographic destiny!"
Enough venture capitalists seem to have the faith too, to keep the money flowing despite lack of traction.
Blockchain is really the Philosopher's Stone for people who believe software is some kind of alchemy.
They only need to win once. When you’re the chip leader, you can afford to throw down some big bets and lose.
as the point is that tokens are very effective advertising engines
In any event, I'm not sure that I'd call this successful, precisely. Might be in the future, who knows, can't on a cursory look find anything concrete about usership. But isn't now.
(Also, personally I would not have named a social network thingy over a fake transport system run by evil computers, but that's just me.)
It's a protocol. There's frontends like warpcast that emulate twitter and flink which emulates reddit