[togaen]

“But it doesn’t appear he even understands why this invention is interesting”

Thing is, it’s not interesting.

[mprime1]

Here’s why it’s interesting to me.

Forget about cryptocurrencies, we probably feel the same way about all that.

If you want to run a database to store whatever, the person/entity running the database has superpowers: they can alter the data, take down the whole thing, etc.

Blockchain is a database where no single person/entity has privileged access.

That’s it. As a distributed system person this is cool. Everyone else might shrug. I’m ok with that.

This is a new paradigm and opens new possibilities. Remains to be seen what we do with it.

[drpyser22]

That's subjective. It clearly interests lots of people.