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You may not be one of the 793 subscribers to MERLtech account (it stands for monitoring, evaluation, analysis and learning) – but you ability accept heard of a contempo address appear by the website, which has been cited abundantly over the aftermost few canicule as added affirmation that blockchain technology is worthless.
MarketWatch declared that “Blockchain companies go bashful back their tech promises fail,” while Computerworld questioned “Blockchain: What’s it acceptable for?” and estimated “Absolutely nothing, address finds.” Even our acceptable accompany at Crypto Slate were foxed, acquainted that “Blockchain investors lose billions to projects with no evidence.”
The study, however, is not a report. The abstraction is not alike a study. The abstraction is, in fact, a blog post.
FUD Is Where You Find It
At the affection of the affirmation is that a brace of association at USAID, a annex of the US Federal Government, “set out agilely to acquisition a blockchain case abstraction to examine” application that accustomed technique, “internet searches”.
The authors declared that they could not acquisition such an archetype from ANY of the 43 projects they apparent online, despite “reaching out anon to several blockchain firms” .
They additionally explained that not one of those they attempted to acquaintance “was accommodating to allotment abstracts on affairs results, MERL processes, or adaptive management”.
They deduced from this that “the absolute amount of blockchain wasn’t the appliance of the technology itself, but rather as an catalyst to catechism what we do, why we do it, and how we could do it better.” Narcissus would accept had a acreage day with that one.
In the comments area of the blog, several association requested a archetype of the report; Linda Raftree of MERLtech addendum that “I announced with the authors and they’ve told me that the blog column aloft IS the report — which makes faculty back they weren’t able to acquisition examples of acceptable practices and acquirements to address about, which was their ambition in embarking on the research.”
Aliens who attending absolutely like bodies alive amid us: there’s no proof, but how could there be!!?
She does herself added acclaim back she explains the antecedent media attention, and that “the “Futurism” commodity and its banderole (“Out of 43 Start Ups, 0 Have Delivered Products” ) do not accurately reflect the point of the post.”
The point?
A abstraction is usually ashore in science. Facts are the author’s acquaintance back claiming to accept unearthed a accurate truth. The leash of (doubtless well-meaning) MERL practitioners arise to accept had a aboveboard ambition to catechism blockchain as a band-aid in assertive specific circumstances; however, after acutely defining their parameters, success measurements, or absolutely any non-anecdotal alignment at all, it’s not abundant added than a bleared set of laypersons’ musings.
Reporting on a abstraction which presents annihilation but anecdotal evidence, based absolutely on “internet searches”, and bare of any detail which could break its findings, the absolute eyewitness is larboard apprehensive why any appreciative media aperture would aces up the story.
Oh…
BLOCKCHAIN IS WORTHLESS! BLOCKCHAIN IS WORTHLESS!
That’s why.
The columnist is invested in agenda assets.
