# kaal:claim:3396522-033

**Claim.** Decentralization technology is unlikely to proliferate without a core use case beyond store of value; banking, money transmission, and triple entry accounting are natural use cases but fall short of being universal use cases for public blockchains.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Moreover, without a core use case, other than the store of value, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, *Stable Cryptocurrencies* (2019), IV. Stable Cryptocurrencies, 9. Enabling Global Decentralized Commerce, page 41

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Vadhindran K. Rao, Stable Cryptocurrencies (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3396522

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ef5031b16aa53476ed618f0bdf92601cd4affb893692c701134bd9cba3ea8acf` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20et%20al.%20-%202019%20-%20Stable%20Cryptocurrencies.pdf

**Failure mode.** missing-core-use-case  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** blockchain, decentralization

**Keywords.** use-cases, store-of-value, adoption, public-blockchain, decentralized-commerce

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