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Blockchain is not for all database related projects, says ANZ Associate Director

Blockchain is not for all database related projects, says ANZ Associate Director

Maria Bellmas, the Associate Director of Trade and Supply Chain of NAZ Institutional, recently questioned the effectiveness of the distributed ledger technology or the blockchain technology over the traditional systems.

In a recent blog post, the Director of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited [ANZ] claimed that Blockchain technology is “sold as a solution to all of life’s problems” and added that not all projects would benefit from it.

She was of the opinion that even though the blockchain technology had numerous use-cases, it was still not a necessary technology. Bellmas stated that the existing legacy database and technology solutions were better for certain projects and emphasized that the technology was not mature enough. According to Bellmas, existing database systems have already provided solutions for all the issues that the blockchain wants to fix.

The genesis of blockchain was meant for completely eliminating the need for third-party intervention for the execution of transactional settlements, while traditional financial systems were still very much in need of it.

According to Bellmas, the distributed ledger technology has become the go-to technology in the tech ecosystem, whose success was fueled by the bitcoin boom and the subsequent collapse. The technology raises important questions, despite offering genuine solutions, she asserted.

Citing the example of Chinese blockchain-related projects in 2018, where only 8% of the total 80,000+ projects were still active, Bellmas explained that the technology was not a solution for all database projects.

He Baohong, the director of CAICT’s Cloud Computing and Big Data Research Institute, had earlier compared blockchain to other short-lived contemporary technologies and said that the latter would eventually die out. However, in the case of the blockchain, the director stated,

“In this circumstance, governments globally are accelerating their efforts to establish unified standards in order to help blockchain projects to achieve real-life applications.”

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Published at Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:44:33 +0000

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What is a mystery is the amount of investment that has gone into cryptos that do not really offer anything aside from a blockchain. According to an article on Wall Street Journal investors have already spent $700 million on a tech startup offering a digital token which they themselves state has no purpose.

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The company, Block.one, raised the funds during the ICO which has come at a time of mass crypto mania and big doses of FOMO (fear of missing out). The report went on to claim that the Cayman Islands-registered company develops software via an open source website; it has created a blockchain platform that does not really offer anything beyond the thousands that already exist in the crypto sphere.

The website offers a pretty standard ‘we are a scalable decentralized app platform’ statement with a basic white paper and a few team photos. They have been auctioning 2 million tokens every day to raise funds for the ICO. The EOS core code is posted publically and the company released a new version of it last week causing a now commonly seen spike in price that usually follows altcoin news.

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Once the platform is released the EOS tokens that have no real relationship to it will serve no purpose. Block.one only intends to write the base code and let third-party developers do the rest.  The WSJ states that a purchase agreement which investors must sign states the tokens “do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features.” In this way, the token seems like the proverbial “white elephant” – expensive to own but serving no purpose.

The current buying frenzy just shows that people are still willing to invest in concepts that are being built for a technological market that doesn’t exist yet. With a market capacity of $5.1 billion EOS is one of the top altcoins of the moment, sitting at 14th place in the crypto cap charts. It has jumped over 450% this month from $1.97 to an all-time high today of $11.11, market corrections have seen the price fall back a little but it is clearly evident that traders are still going crypto nuts.

Is EOS just another useless “white elephant” of a token or will it eventually have some purpose? Would you invest in EOS? Let us know in the comments below.

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