A Year in Review: BlockchainOps Entrepreneur

Too Long; Didn't Read

It was quite a year for Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, though I would separate the two terms as much as possible. After starting the year on a post-2017 high, the latter half of 2018 saw values plummet causing blockchain studios and half-baked projects to crash and burn in spectacular style. Even those more isolated from the crashes struggled to finish what they had started — an increasing skepticism to proposing Blockchain as a solution to every problem when the technology is so nascent, and that actual users are hard to find increased the malaise in the ecosystem. At this point, the pessimist might state late 2018 as the time we consigned Blockchain to the technology graveyard and all went back to our distributed databases. The optimist might look at Amazon’s recent blockchain offering as an incentive to adoption, and that all the ecosystem streamlining as a positive step that every technology needs to go through to weed out poor projects. We shall see.