Most comments argue to the contrary of what the article lists as potential use-cases. I must say that the problem with crypto is not so much about its foundation (decentralized, blockchain) but rather the very fact that it promotes a broken business model that neither solves old problems nor offers new problems with novel solutions. I think any computation system that gets coupled with monetary incentives is potentially going to self-defeat its purpose one way or another. Crypto just makes it a lot easier for agents to game the system and lead it to corruption. Yes, the traditional financial institutions are not perfect either, but crypto takes their very worst (i.e., market manipulators) and provides them with a platform with far less regulation and much more reach.