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That’s the thing, AI is an exceptional propaganda machine. Blockchain isn’t really exceptional at anything - it’s just a reinvention of the wheel.
Blockchain is an adequate solution to a problem that already has other, cheaper solutions.
AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information). Unfortunately, all the money is in that solution being applied to problems where it's not adequate (content generation, user interaction).
There is no other solution for creating a shared, permissionless database.
Yes and no one but crypto needs that. Everyone else is much better served with traditional databases.
Supply chains need that. Traditional databases can't be used because there would be hundreds.