{"id":45966,"date":"2019-12-03T03:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T03:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/?p=45966"},"modified":"2024-03-04T13:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T21:14:40","slug":"blockchain-and-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/blockchain-and-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain and Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just because something needs to get done doesn’t mean that it will.\u00a0 I have learned this in many contexts, most recently in writing about the pharmaceutical industry<\/a>.\u00a0 They come up as a good candidate to use Blockchain as a way of stopping counterfeiting.\u00a0 By all accounts, they continue to sit on their hands.\u00a0 While there are profound losses coupled with compromised safety, it’s not a priority, even at this time of otherwise well-publicized profitability.<\/p>\n

From looking at this, I have figured out that there are two factors that motivate using Blockchain.\u00a0 The first is a transfer of value.\u00a0 It has grown exponentially due to Bitcoin.\u00a0 The second is recording transactions.\u00a0 This is what is driving governments, community organizations and libraries to use Blockchain.\u00a0 While value isn’t always transferred, the transactions are securely recorded.\u00a0 This lowers a barrier for the construction of peer to peer networks.\u00a0 Such networks have long been possible, but Blockchain increases security to the point where people are more comfortable making an attempt.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin continues to be popular, but the rest of the Blockchain story is difficult to categorize.\u00a0 We can see that there are corporate, community and government components, but use is uneven. It could transform supply chain<\/a>, but it has not.\u00a0 There is a beginning in libraries, but it remains to be seen if the peer to peer model will catch on, or whether Blockchain will ultimately be used by OCLC.\u00a0 For governments, Blockchain is at the point of smaller projects, such as its use by Austin, Texas<\/a> in the delivery of services to the homeless.\u00a0 Beyond that, there is quantum computing specifically, along with supercomputing in general that render Blockchain obsolete, as was predicted in 1994<\/a>. Still, Blockchain specifically and crypto in general could go on in different forms.<\/p>\n

The easy part in writing about this technology is the technology itself.\u00a0 It is more difficult to speculate about human motivation.\u00a0 Free software, code and other tools grow exponentially, but it is anyone’s guess as to which one gets picked up by whom.\u00a0 Some will languish on GitHub. On the other hand, FreeBSD is the basis for Apple’s Mac OS, while Linux powers Google’s Chrome OS and Android.\u00a0 One of the best looking copies of Mac OS was Pear Linux, but it went nowhere and remains the province of those who enjoy trivia.\u00a0 Where Blockchain goes from here depends on what individuals and groups decide to do with it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just because something needs to get done doesn’t mean that it will.\u00a0 I have learned this in many contexts, most recently in writing about the pharmaceutical industry.\u00a0 They come up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,44,130],"tags":[71,134,137,92,72,138,50,37,58,136,135,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-45966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-basics","7":"category-blockchain","8":"category-corporate-environments","9":"category-quantum-computers","10":"tag-android","11":"tag-apple-freebsd","12":"tag-austin-texas","13":"tag-bitcoin","14":"tag-chrome-os","15":"tag-github","16":"tag-google","17":"tag-libraries","18":"tag-linux","19":"tag-mac-os","20":"tag-pear-linux","21":"tag-pharmaceutical-industry","22":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46373,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions\/46373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ischoolblogs.sjsu.edu\/blockchains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}