# kaal:claim:3411897-025

**Claim.** Without a core use case beyond Bitcoin's store of value function, decentralization technology is less likely to proliferate.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- absent a widely adopted killer application for public blockchains

**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 - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part 2: The Present, Decentralization Neutralizers, page 34

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

**Failure mode.** missing-killer-app  (family: cold-start-and-bootstrapping)

**Topics.** blockchain

**Keywords.** adoption, use-cases, killer-app, public-blockchains

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-020
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3396522-033

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