It is a shame that we associate crypto with currency. The underlying technology is very useful for many things, especially with AI/ML creating so much unverifiable content.
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Ledgers got the "blockchain" name, and cryptography got back to "cryptography".
Blockchains might be useful for verification of things, but today's "crypto" is not that technology. It's the name of the "GPU Accelerated Pump and Dump Engine" for today.
The obvious real world use case of using blockchain to track shipping containers across modes of transport(and companies) failed late 2022 when the tradelens project was terminated(https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/11/29/maersk-and-i...) after at least 4 years of work by the shipping industry's largest players. And that's essentially the case everywhere people are trying to get real value from blockchain based solutions.
“Currency” use-cases for blockchain actually work. It’s just that adoption has plateaued because most people don’t actually have the problems that cryptocurrencies solve and are perfectly happy with fiat.
On the other hand, all the other use-cases of crypto/blockchain are outright scams/frauds because of the oracle problem.