Paul Hearns

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Taking Stock · Circular economy, 'dead internet' theory & blockchain revolution · 14 Aug 2026 podcast

Probably not.

And that's as it should be, because the true utility of it is going to be in what it enables, in what outcomes it provides.

And in that way, it is absolutely delivering.

Say for example, um one of the the points that's or one of the uh applications it's being used for is around things like credentials and identity management.

So uh th there's a Slovenian pilot already uh around things like um professional credentials, whereby they're registered on a blockchain and they can move with you immutably wherever you need them to.

Another example is things are uh uh around diagnostic imaging.

So when you have a scan in a hospital

That image is verified on a blockchain so that it can be passed through the system, it can go through as many steps as it needs to, and it's always, as you mentioned previously, immutable and transparent as to its chain of custody, so that you can rely on what interpretation comes from it.

So that that's where the real kind of utility is coming from.

So in in terms of financial systems as well.

Though if you look at the fact that say in Ireland Revolute is a verb, you know, obviously other other services are available are are exactly other services are available.

Yeah.

I don't know if yeah.

But it just goes to show that when you have a good, slick, usable wrapper around new payment systems, they will be adopted.

So certainly in terms of blockchain and say the the the other kinds of of uh technologies that that it underlies, such as Web3, uh which is is m sometimes described as the uh a new iteration of the Internet, that uh it it enables those technologies and if there is a sufficiently developed user interface giving

A good user experience from it, adoption follows.

Exactly.

Okay.

Well the first thing to point out is I'm a technologist, uh I am not a financial professional, but

In the uh the case of the tokenization of assets, whether they're they're derivatives, commodities, uh whatever

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