I've always been agnostic on blockchain stuff. One of those 'flip-a-coin to determine its future' type of mentalities. On that note, my humble, unsubstantiated hypothesis is that IF it ends up not being a dud technology, then a couple of potential things that make that so might be...
(1) Something to do with the growing number of people not participating in the current traditional financial system (the unbanked etc) together with some sort of negative event in current traditional system (recession/depression etc).
(2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened within the system or process and blockchain somehow ending up being more reliable, secure, and accurate than a traditional database in recording the history of an A.I. system or process.
(3) Something to do with the ability to monetize certain things at scale that either could not be monetizable at scale before or could have been but no tech existed that could have made the project/business profitable.
(1) Something to do with the growing number of people not participating in the current traditional financial system (the unbanked etc) together with some sort of negative event in current traditional system (recession/depression etc).
(2) Something to do with future A.I. systems and processes requiring a historical snapshot of everything that happened within the system or process and blockchain somehow ending up being more reliable, secure, and accurate than a traditional database in recording the history of an A.I. system or process.
(3) Something to do with the ability to monetize certain things at scale that either could not be monetizable at scale before or could have been but no tech existed that could have made the project/business profitable.