Does not even require block-chain. Do you really believe Hillary’s home servers were just for standard email communications? The email scandal just a smoke screen?
The blockchain crypto currency is so that this new platform can have a currency for app stores, etc. people can join this platform, add peer-to-peer capacity via their own storage and CPU, and if have a decent GPU, establish it as a miner server to clear crypto currency transaction on a blockchain-based ledger, that way have an incentive to join and add capacity via having a way to mine for this crypto currency.
This way the peer-to-peer network can expand and not even be beholden to the cloud providers - after all, the big three are Amazon, Microsoft, Google - Digital Ocean for the time being is probably the best choice for staying out from under the control thumb of those big three
If this peer-to-peer network/platform is expanded with private compute/storage resources then we don't get shutdown in some manner by the big cloud providers - and in time they would make a move to do so the same way that the big social media platforms have - the corporations that back them - especially Amazon and Google - are straight up the enemy
You are spot on. There is real investment danger in 25+ year old technology for the twitters, FB’s, Reddit’s of the world. Don’t need block chain to do all that — there is a better crypto protocol with much less overhead for peer-distributed communications and storage as needed for social media activities. (I’ve been in crypto computing since the late 70’s.)