It's left unsaid because the truth is that businesses are not finding crypto easier, faster, or better. In most cases, it's the exact opposite. But crypto excels at one thing: obfuscation.

A regular log or ledger file could accomplish the same thing as a blockchain for significantly less technical debt or ongoing expense.

And note that the best use cases Stripe could find for "real world" use cases were a company trying to complicate its FX cash management, and a cash transfer app with fees higher than most of their competitors.

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jdminhbg 5 days ago | parent [-]

> A regular log or ledger file could accomplish the same thing as a blockchain

It is kind of wild how a bunch of people hyping blockchains five years ago has resulted in a thermostatic reaction where a bunch of other people have decided that distributed computing is easy, actually, you just need a ledger file.

	▲	gamblor956 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		You do understand that a blockchain is just a hashed ledger? It's called "crypto" because they use cryptography principles to hash the ledger into multiple parts. But it's still just a ledger. With blockchain, you just get a ledger that's harder to use and dependent on external connectivity.