Topic: Real design wins for blockchain? (Read 202 times)

Wow this also border you, it's so disheartened to see that you speak more about the question that border my heart, I wonder why the project of this time never last or achieve it object or aim unlike in the past where meaningful project with good lesson and achieving of development is made, that derive investment. I think some things is missing out in the system if creating project this days I can't categorically say that they don't meet requirements or the team lack fidelity and dedication.

I have sent you PM. Check it

What is the project you have in mind?

Why cant people create something that will be really interesting. I mean there have been some interesting projects back then and the dev abandoned it. Now there are new and new projects coming out that cease to exist after few months if not weeks. What is the point of it? I have idea that might work. But I cant find a skilled dev who is not trying to scam in the beggining.

While I'll leave this thread open, I think it's sorta closed itself: the answer to my question is: there aren't any documented non-cryptocurrency design wins for blockchain.

After this question has been sitting here for over two weeks, in front of an audience that certainly ought to at least know where to look, nobody can come up with anything.

While I tried to ask this question with an open mind, this answer matches my own analysis of blockchain when I looked into the technology many years ago. My own technical background is ultra-high-scale Internet applications, although I've been in IT for over 30 years and I've done a lot of everything. My take on blockchain when I learned about it was, "that will never scale to anything within orders of magnitude of mainstream volume", and, "that won't be useful to solve any real-world problems besides cryptocurrency and NFTs".

Perhaps the error in thinking for those looking at using blockchain for their enterprise is that commercial enterprises are necessarily centralized and hence the decentralized benefit of blockchain to these entities is rather meaningless.

In other words, "centralized blockchain" is a lot like, "alcohol-free moonshine": probably not a product anybody will be interested in.

One thing people have pointed at is the preponderance of tools that major tool suppliers like Amazon, Microsoft and others quickly made available when the "blockchain" buzzword became a hot thing.

This led many, I suspect, to believe that this meant blockchain was going to be the next big thing in the enterprise. Some of us, however, have seen buzzwords like this come and go over the years, and know that at least half of the "next big things" are actually just duds--despite the multi-billion-dollar onslaught by the giant toolmakers, who can easily afford to lose everything on half of their initiatives since the other half is so profitable.

Thank you very much for your complete answer.

You listed a bunch of areas that others have listed as well when I asked this question elsewhere. These are definitely "candidates" for blockchain solutions.

But "candidates" are just that: candidates. It doesn't mean anything unless you win the design.

And so far there are no known winners that anybody seems to be able to point to.

And understand that simply saying, "I built this solution using xyz technology" doesn't tell you anything. As the old saying goes, "when your problem is a nail, every tool is a hammer". One "could" write the next version of Grand Theft Auto in Perl, and with enough money behind it from tools makers, it is theoretically possible but... so what? You could have done it some other way faster and cheaper and better.

I've been around the tech industry a long time, and I've seen new buzzwords come and go. The ones that stick around always have an answer to this question.

And none have ever taken anywhere near this long.

I continue to be inclined to believe that blockchain will never be used outside of the realm of NFTs and cryptocurrencies--but I'm open to be proven wrong.

I've posed this question before in the "unserious" sections here, and posed it in a couple of other places on the Internet as well and thus far I have pointedly not received an answer so I'll post here.

The question is, what is an example of an IT design win for blockchain technology that is not associated with cryptocurrency or NFTs.

I am looking for specific examples, not handwaving "people in the xyz industry love blockchain" or "CEO xyz says they want to build stuff with blockchain", and I am looking for end-user solutions and not tools e.g. what Amazon, Microsoft et. al. offer to developers in order to produce a real-world solution.

Ideally, I'd like to see something written up with an ROI analysis, and demonstrate why implementing blockchain made the project better/faster/cheaper/etc. versus doing the project without blockchain.

I'm going to try to be a bit provocative here and ask, pointedly:

Why hasn't anybody been able to answer this?

I'm on my way to concluding that... there is no such design win, which means blockchain is... only useful for cryptocurrencies and NFTs and nothing else.

But I could be wrong. My search for evidence continues...