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===Further reading===
===Further reading===
If you want the case ''for'' blockchain, just google blockchain or even talk to any poseur or charlatan in any industry who is trying to sell you something. They’ll talk your ear off. If you want to hear the case against, there's a bit more work to do. So the jolly contrarian is gathering some links for you.
If you want the case ''for'' blockchain, just google blockchain or even talk to any poseur or charlatan in any industry who is trying to sell you something. They’ll talk your ear off.  
*The daddy: [https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100  Kai Stinchcombe's Medium takedown].  
 
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-blockchain-silly-season/550184/ Derek Thompson in the Atlantic - Blockchain silly season]: ''“Bitcoin might be where Pets.com was in 2000—a technological curiosity in search of an enduring business need. But blockchain is not where the internet was in 2000. Even blockchain’s biggest defenders can’t say what the technology’s most obvious consumer use-cases are going to be, because they plainly don’t exist yet. It is possible they never will.”''
If you want to hear the case against, there's a bit more work to do. So the jolly contrarian is gathering some links for you.
*[https://cointelegraph.com/news/deloitte-reports-more-than-26000-blockchain-projects-launched-in-2016 Cointelegraph on how 92% of the blockchain-related projects on GitHub are now dead.]
*'''The daddy''': [https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100  Kai Stinchcombe's Medium takedown].  
*'''The atlantic''': [https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/bitcoin-blockchain-silly-season/550184/ Derek Thompson in the Atlantic - Blockchain silly season]: ''“Bitcoin might be where Pets.com was in 2000—a technological curiosity in search of an enduring business need. But blockchain is not where the internet was in 2000. Even blockchain’s biggest defenders can’t say what the technology’s most obvious consumer use-cases are going to be, because they plainly don’t exist yet. It is possible they never will.”''
*'''Cointelegraph''': [https://cointelegraph.com/news/deloitte-reports-more-than-26000-blockchain-projects-launched-in-2016 Cointelegraph on how 92% of the blockchain-related projects on GitHub are now dead.]
*'''Izzy Kaminska in the Pink ’Un''': [https://www.ft.com/content/b5b1a5f2-5030-11e7-bfb8-997009366969 Everyone's getting skeptical about the blockchain hype].

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