For whom? Folks at Google, Facebook, and Amazon that are building distributed databases aren't re-writing their backends to use blockchains, for obvious reasons.
As for people who aren't building general-purpose distributed databases, a solution to the Byzantine generals problem is more of a solution to a problem that they don't have - as other posts in this thread demonstrate.
noofen|4 years ago
1) The original BTC paper was a huge breakthrough in decentralized systems.
2) Most "blockchain" projects today are merely elaborate Ponzis.
arberx|4 years ago
vkou|4 years ago
As for people who aren't building general-purpose distributed databases, a solution to the Byzantine generals problem is more of a solution to a problem that they don't have - as other posts in this thread demonstrate.