If you are gonna downvote, say something.
I can’t tell if you’re downvoting because you saw the word “blockchain”, or you really love it.
I’m using quotes in the title, because I suspect a major amount of people use the word “blockchain” loosely to refer to other related things. If you are willing to, please provide a definition of what you mean by “blockchain” as well.
I dont trust crypto stuff bc it’s essentially gambling, and any non-crypto use is worse than just an encrypted text file.
I mostly hate that people don’t use an article before the term or correctly pluralize it. Saying “we want to use blockchain” is like saying “we want to build house”. You want to use a blockchain/use blockchains/use blockchain technology.
I don’t hate the technology itself. I hate what the applications of the technology have brought us.
About 7 years ago we had some very expensive consultants, hired by clueless management, do a presentation to our marketing team.
When that consultants declared that, “we see the future of the web centered on blockchain”, the two of us who were developers shared a mystified and slightly horrified look.
Fortunately, the consultants went away after extracting their $200k and providing our director with some glossy reports. They did have a few useful suggestions that we implemented, but on the whole they were never mentioned again.
Don’t hate it.
A blockchain being essentially a public ledger.
It’s a good concept that will doubtlessly have several if not many practical uses. I think any hatred it gets is just because like every new thing hucksters try and brand it as the cure to all ills to make a buck.
