Hi guys, have you ever thought about blockchain? If it is really revolutionary technology? I am reading many pessimistic opinions and articles, that it is not good technology. For example speed and massive adoption, we see this problem in Bitcoin blockchain and the transactions on blockchain, because it is the oldest one and there are the biggest number of transaction stored in blockchain, will this happen to every altcoins in the future? Will the Lightining network solve this problem? Why the Lightning network is not fully released - thanks to the miners - they want bigger rewards or? And what about mining - what will happen if we invent a quantum computer? Could we really trust in decentralized anonymous transactions in today's world?
Looking for your replies.
Scaling is not an issue as we can modify the speed of block creation as well as their size, but then it comes the question of decentralization. Because with bigger load you will need to have higher internet speed as well as stronger hardware that can take the load and this is mainly why we are experimenting with LN. Lighting Network can solve the problem till some degree, we will see after it gets major acceptance.
Blockchain as a tech is revolutionary because you can keep the data decentralized with trusting others and every piece of data is permanently stored on this ledger which means you can't edit/delete something as it is transparent on it's own. There are other database like structures such as DAGs which work with graphs - but main idea is same: decentralized trust less ledger.
Altcoins will msotly live, at least one with good vision and determination from devs side and community. We have many currencies in the world and I don't know single one of them, which tells me there is space for altcoins - but bitcoin will be known like EUR, USD, GBP and simmilar top currencies are well known by anyone on this planet.
Quantum computers are not huge treat, from my opinion as if necessary bitcoins code will be updated accordingly to meet the need of quantum computers. Anyway mining has difficulty set in place which changes according how fast miners mine blocks.
Transactions are not anonymous with bitcoin, rather they are pseudo-anonymous.