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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8552701" data-attributes="member: 5948">Without going into to too much detail, I'm currently professionally dealing with a company who did that and succeeded in selling it.&nbsp; My experiences with them have ... not made me more enthusiastic about the blockchain industry ecosystem, I'm just sayin'.This interview sounds like a guy who is either way out of his depth, or who either let some blockchain tech evangelicals at KS talk him into making the big announcement without being fully across the detail, got taken by surprise by the backlash, and is now trying to gently walk things back without alienating the blockchain bloc inside KS to whom he has already, and probably ill-advisedly, handed the keys to the kingdom.I'm no guru, but I've been working in the financial software sector for over a decade.&nbsp; Everything he talks about as a potential advantage of blockchain is a robustly solved problem using conventional databases, financial protocols etc without requiring blockchain at all.&nbsp; I'm just not seeing an upside here at all, much less one of a sufficient magnitude to justify the downside.Still, it doesn't matter what i can or can't see, it's convincing this guy that'll be the problem.&nbsp; I suspect what will happen is that Kickstarter will set fire to a whole lot of money and neglect their core platform while their tech people chase fairies at the bottom of the blockchain garden, maybe produce a proof of concept which will be limited, buggy, and widely ignored or despised, and then eventually quietly shelve the whole idea.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8552701, member: 5948"] Without going into to too much detail, I'm currently professionally dealing with a company who did that and succeeded in selling it. My experiences with them have ... not made me more enthusiastic about the blockchain industry ecosystem, I'm just sayin'. This interview sounds like a guy who is either way out of his depth, or who either let some blockchain tech evangelicals at KS talk him into making the big announcement without being fully across the detail, got taken by surprise by the backlash, and is now trying to gently walk things back without alienating the blockchain bloc inside KS to whom he has already, and probably ill-advisedly, handed the keys to the kingdom. I'm no guru, but I've been working in the financial software sector for over a decade. Everything he talks about as a potential advantage of blockchain is a robustly solved problem using conventional databases, financial protocols etc without requiring blockchain at all. I'm just not seeing an upside here at all, much less one of a sufficient magnitude to justify the downside. Still, it doesn't matter what i can or can't see, it's convincing this guy that'll be the problem. I suspect what will happen is that Kickstarter will set fire to a whole lot of money and neglect their core platform while their tech people chase fairies at the bottom of the blockchain garden, maybe produce a proof of concept which will be limited, buggy, and widely ignored or despised, and then eventually quietly shelve the whole idea. [/QUOTE]

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