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Please explain why a website is the better solution for your project than existing technologies, and please no projects that exist solely for the purpose of reaching a browser-based audience, enabling webapps and so on!

I look forward to seeing your replies!

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Repeat excercise with the Internet, the punch hole card, the steam machine, the landline telephone etc etc.

Even if some tech eventually fails, that doesn't mean it was pointless.



I can't quite tell if you're being serious or not, but just in case you are:

Literally every technology you listed there was a massive step forward technologically and was a significantly better solution for the problems they addressed...

You also skewed the question into a completely non-sensical argument - Obviously there are lots of websites that provide purpose beyond self-promotion.

I'm looking for one example of blockchain technology that isn't circular or self-promoting, and solves any problem better than existing technologies. Not some theoretical future use case, just one existing project.


Are you seriously comparing Landline Phones/Steam machines to Blockchain ?


It’s potentially fair, see what the comparison comes up with. McKinsey told AT&T not to bother with cell phones, too small a market. And who would need more than 640K RAM in their PCs? (At the time, that question was widely discussed. BG did appear to say that.)




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