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kleinbl00  ·  1254 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Breitling authentication is running on Ethereum

    I will grant you your thoughts on trust, and simply argue that blockchain isn’t the only way to accomplish the paradigm shift you’re describing, nor is it a foolproof way to do so.

No. But it is the front runner, it is the most researched, it has the most momentum behind it, it's made the most progress, and it is already causing the most alterations of law, commerce and research.

The same people who called Bitcoin "goldbugging for nerds" explained why Kodak pivoting into blockchain was insightful. They also championed the pivot into COVID testing or whatever. We have a real psychological need to group things into "salvation" or "scam" without troubling ourselves with the possibility that the world is nuanced - just because some choad on Twitch is crowing about the Tron he flipped on Robinhood over the weekend doesn't man all discussion of blockchain is worthy of scorn.