# What's Blockchain Actually Good for, Anyway? For Now, Not Much | WIRED

<https://www.wired.com/story/whats-blockchain-good-for-not-much/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I've been a bear on blockchain for a while. I do believe that the technology solves a problem. It is a solution for trust in systems that need to provide that. However, outside of cryptocurrencies, in most developed countries we have trust. I would also note that negative articles on blockchain would be queued to start increasing right about now if the technology follows a typical [hype cycle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle).

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