The tweet makes little sense on its own; "TCP/IP is less secure." Less secure than what? Blockchain is often touted as a panacea, but it's not designed for every possible type of thing.

Well, well, this is very interesting. It appears that RSA deleted the tweet and the blog post after I answered. The editorial board caught wind of the problem with the article and deleted it.

So, it turns out the article was complete garbage. No need to give it a second's more thought.

The blog entry makes little sense: "Internet is too centralized. Let's replace it with a central ledger..."

I started trying to count the problems with this proposal, but eventually gave up. I think I have a new favorite example of "fractally wrong".

Question makes no sense.

If you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail ...

@Frank the question makes sense. Someone made a claim. Others refuted it without explanation. The question is to provide explanation.

Just the headline looks like blockchain version of Alan Sokal prank. The body text is just continuing on the theme.

so, will we then need terawatts of power for every single packet, the power usage increasing with every single packet sent, forever?

@zakinster I wasted some time trying to come up with an equally nonsense question not involving technology. "The cake mixer has a serious fundamental flaw: the cake batter is sticky. Could a skipping rope covered in goose feathers and crystals of N-type silicon provide the answer?"

I always consider literally every article involving Blockchain to be clickbait until proven otherwise. There have been far to many articles like this one to do otherwise.

Even if it did somehow make sense to replace TCP with Blockchain, the chances of TCP/IP being replaced (by anything!) are infinitesimal due to its huge installed base and network effects. For comparison, a relatively minor change in how the Internet works (IPv6) has been readily available for 20+ years now and yet we're still using IPv4 for most things, because that's what everyone else uses, and a networking technology is only useful if the person/site you want to communicate with is also using it.

I hope pings won't take longer than bitcoin payments.

"You know, you could apply AI to that"