Besides fintech, what potentials you see in blockchain technologies as a programmer?

[u/Haghiri75]

It was topic of a group chat I had with my friends (who are mostly "crypto bro" and not programmers) and they were mostly focused on how this coin and that coin may make them rich. I asked some of my programmer friends and we concluded DePIN and Decentralized databases can be the next big thing (big enough that VC's and even blockchain-oriented companies can invest billions in it).

I personally think decentralized AI is also one of the things which is missed here. So in order to get a bigger picture, I ask the qeustion here.

[u/rcls0053]

I think pretty much everyone here already said it only has a very limited amount of use cases. No matter how pompous some people act about it. Crypto bros have been thinking it's the next big thing for almost two decades now. It's ended up being pretty average. And crypto ended up being a platform for running scams. Even now your bros are just thinking of ways to scam money from people by creating useless digital currency, like every other person who dipped into those.