Finance: The World Economic Forum suggests that blockchain could store 10% of global GDP by 2027, reshaping traditional finance.
The blockchain cannot "store" GDP, because GDP is the cumulative amount of goods and services, that were sold in a certain time time(usually one year). I guess that those analysts mean that the blockchain could store financial assets, that will be valued at around 10% of the global GDP by 2027. This is still very optimistic and I don't share the same expectations.
They are talking about market cap that they claim can grow to 10% of global GDP ($8-$10 trillion) by extrapolating data of how it grew in the past years and is currently sitting at around $1 trillion.
It makes no sense to even compare GDP with sum of all shitcoin market caps but that's what they're doing
I'm beginning to believe some crypto haters, who say that blockchain technology is just a "glorified database". Everything you could do with the blockchain can be done by using a simple online database.
Blockchain is the slowest form of database that needs to have another big "normal" database on top of it to even be used. Even in bitcoin we have another "normal" database (a simple key-value db) called UTXO-set or ChainState to use the blockchain.
It is not the blockchain that makes bitcoin what it is. There are a lot of things from PoW to the distributed nodes that make it work. The problem with others is that they think they can just pull out one aspect (the blockchain) and gain all the benefits.