# kaal:claim:3406323-020

**Claim.** Without a core use case other than the store of value provided by Bitcoin, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate; banking, money transmission, and triple entry accounting are natural but insufficient as universal use cases for public blockchains.

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

**Holds when.**

- public blockchains as of 2019

**Source quote.**

> Without a core use case, other than the store of value (in Bitcoin), decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy* (2019), V. Obstacles, page 12

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

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

**Topics.** blockchain

**Keywords.** use-cases, adoption, public-blockchains, store-of-value

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-033
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-025

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