Technologists, entrepreneurs, innovators, the public, and governments are having a different point of view on practical limitations on adopting blockchain technology, even the existence of bitcoin and thereby the relative performance of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain implementation is like implementing a 360-degree performance review where the managers appraise the teams and vice versa, practicality impeding into power balances as is the context of centralized vs decentralized phenomenon of Blockchain. Do we assess in this blog whether a new technology called blockchain distributed ledger technology is capturing enough attention or on a path to failure? Read on to explore, when Blockchain Fails?

The first limitation of the technology is its scalability and speed of processing transactions to apply to real-world scenarios. These limitations allude to the processing times whether it is the time taken to post a transaction in the block or the time taken to reach consensus in approving the transaction. Lightning Network for Bitcoin and Plasma & Raiden Network for Ethereum is developing scenarios. Leaving the success to the best of the cryptocurrency brains, we are about to attain the reality of off-chains to speed up and reduce transaction costs to scale up the technology adoption.

What are the other constraints limiting blockchain technology success?  The next limitation is whether blockchain scales to enough network size pressing the necessity to regularize the underlying currencies and technology promoting common man/woman adoption. Blockchains tend to become less resistant to bad actors as responding to attacks and grow stronger. Obviously, this requires a large network of users. If a blockchain is not a robust network with a widely distributed grid of nodes, it becomes more difficult to reap the full benefit. The blockchain community has to respond to overcoming such flaws of both permission and permissionless blockchain projects. But the network is growing and unstoppable to expanding beyond critical masses.

Another misnomer is blockchain technology readiness for production or a real use case. It is true that few enterprises are marketing blockchain as a mature technology, while bitcoin and ethereum platforms are starting to showcase the expected kind of scale. With over 70+ different blockchain platform technologies available, most blockchain platforms to be candid are immature as of date. We need continuation on multi-ledger experimentation and PoCs based on “test and prove” outcomes.

In the true spirit of propaganda of a good or bad, the real world of blockchain has an anomaly to the early days of the Internet. During the early nineties, in fact, there were warnings about the stability of the fast-growing worldwide web. As the end truth led us to taste the financial incentives, encouraged believers to maintain the stability and security of the underlying systems.

Ecosystem readiness is the following topic of blockchain survival. As the consortiums and public developer focus garner, Blockchain continues to lack the maturity and standards to reasonably promising interoperability among competing ledgers and platforms. What we as a blockchain community should prepare is to lead from the front on integration challenges between blockchain technologies and legacy environments to demonstrate incremental success and power of distributed technology.

Lastly, I would sum up emphasizing the technical limitations and way forward for Blockchain, referring to Emin Gün Sirer, PhD, an associate professor at Cornell University quote “Failures will happen, as long as you have thought it through, you’re okay.” Dr. Gün Sirer shared his research on how blockchain can fail at the Business of Blockchain conference in 2017. Blockchain technology is roughly 30,000 lines of code, leaving ample room for error, according to Dr. Gün Sirer. This consideration is serious, he said, since most blockchain clients run on the same code – meaning one error can inhibit an entire system. “It’s amazing that we haven’t found as many mission-critical bugs as one would expect, and in fact, that’s a testament to people who have worked behind the scenes on it,” Dr. Gün Sirer said, according to MIT Technology Review. Although developers should keep these issues top-of-mind, Dr. Gün Sirer also stressed the potential for failure should not discourage them.

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