Yet Another Rant About Blockchains
I&#x27;d like to address this bit:<p>&gt; The classic rebuttal against blockchains and other distributed technologies goes something like this: there&#x27;s nothing a blockchain can do that a plain old SQL database can&#x27;t do cheaper and more efficiently. That&#x27;s true, but it&#x27;s also missing the point, and I&#x27;ll leave it at that.<p>That is definitely not missing the point when it is raised in response to things that are sold as &quot;OMG blockchain!&quot; but do not need (or often, even make use of) what makes blockchains unique. Which is, IMHO, at least 95% of the things that I come across marketed as involving blockchains.