Careful not to conflate things like hash trees with Blockchains. The former do get used for stuff like certificate transparency logs right now, because it is a sensible technology. Blockchains could do exactly the same thing (because they’re based on the same underlying principle), only with much more expense and waste, so there’s basically no point.
It has one legitimate use case that I can think of. Immutable audit logs, even then there are better options.
Blockchain, the solution in search of a problem.
so in practice it actually doesn’t, and enterprise “blockchain” systems tend to evolve:
multiple such cases!
exactly, like I said, there is only 1 thing it could be used for, but there are better options for that anyway.
Careful not to conflate things like hash trees with Blockchains. The former do get used for stuff like certificate transparency logs right now, because it is a sensible technology. Blockchains could do exactly the same thing (because they’re based on the same underlying principle), only with much more expense and waste, so there’s basically no point.