Ask HN: Sources for learning about all the blockchain based business models?
First of all, I am well aware "Blockchain" is a buzzword hijacked from Bitcoin.
That said, I am interested in learning about how people are (and have been) trying to adopt the Bitcoin's blockchain model and build different types of monetization strategies around it. Most of them will probably all fail, but regardless I am trying to learn as much as possible. It would be helpful to know all the success stories and failures, etc.
I know things move really fast so most of the books written about Bitcoin are pretty much outdated, are there any good sources online to start? Thanks!
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 14.2 ms ] threadThere's a lot of hype about what Blockchain can do, these guys are in the game but I think give a balanced view on the capabilities.
When you take the currency away from the Blockchain the actual capabilities are severely limited. This is because the currency provides incentives to decentralize. When you take those incentives away you're left with a moderately useful distributed database.
I'm seeing people build applications on top of a Blockchain that would have been far more suited to a relational database.