Databases have been around since the ’70s and can manage millions of transactions per second. There are thousands of developers, architects, and managers that have built database infrastructures and have made a living for decades. Why would they switch and learn something new when most solutions work well today? Blockchains promise the ability to decentralize trust, privacy, and store tamper-resistant data while creating new profitable workflows. Unfortunately, that promise and the combination of media hype has propelled this as a must use technology. The question is whether blockchain is ready for mass adoption or not. Gartner has reported that we are currently still in the peak of inflated expectations of the technology or what we call hype. (Remember VR twenty years ago?)