10 years of whatever this has been
So, I&#x27;m just a guy, been a software engineer most of my life, from age 7 or so when dad first showed me how to punch some commands in DOS. Probably like many of you here. So, when you read what I am about to write, please don&#x27;t attack me, please read it with an inquisitive, truth seeking perspective. I come in peace, if even you don&#x27;t like what I am about to say.<p>When I first got into tech, the technology amazed me, not the problems it solved. The tech was enough, it was not a means to an end, it just was. As I got older, and started owning projects, managing teams, etc, I realized that technology should be in service of something, not just a thing to exist in and of itself.<p>So, how does that relate to this? One question I have constantly asked, and never gotten an answer to - What problem does Bitcoin (Or blockchain, if you prefer, I&#x27;ll take either answer), solve? What problem does it solve that no other distributed system does as well, if not better? I&#x27;ve yet to see the answer.<p>inb4 payments: Payments has been the closest answer, but then you realize that payments infra is bogged down by regulation, not by technology, and that any technology that goes to replace existing tech will get regulated down into the same place.