Bitcoin was just a waste of talent and resources.
What happens when a country's banking system fails.
No moral judgement, but the only viable use case for the blockchain is doing things with money that the authorities don't want you to do.
Other than that, no, there is no use for a distributed database because doing financial transactions with people you can't even trust to abide by the law is generally a bad idea.
What happens when a country's banking system fails?
If OpenAI becomes an also-ran by the time the hardware is released, this seems like a real possibility no matter how well-designed it is.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DVh5p3MnNvL4KqzEH0ME...