> But 90% of the efforts of the academy and 99% of those of commerce are focused on > the Blockchain, an integrity technology. It's worse than that, because not only is most of the effort placed on blockchain technology, blockchain technology is also being pushed as the answer to *everything*. Blockchain technology has a place, but it doesn't make sense everywhere, and when one says, "Wait, let's take a step back and look at what we really *need* blockchains for, and where we don't," then one seems a heretic... or at best, quaintly naïve. Barry