RE: Re re situation2 Oct 2018 19:04
Personally I think the pullback and now consolidation in bitcoin is a factor in Factom not yet being further along (or even having raised).
Being a cryptocurrency skeptic I felt that was always inevitable.
However, Bitcoin may have got to the point of being "too big to fail", and vested interests will keep it going, even if it doesn't keep rising in the stellar manner it previously did.
A lot of the garbage cryptos will die off.
Similarly, amongst the backdrop of the shine coming off zillions of worthless cryptocurrencies, the progress to practical blockchain utilisation continues, and imo will be a progressive shift. The slowest growth will always be now, as the first companies start to adopt it, iron out the bugs, and demonstrate that it is a workable and effective technology (whichever blockchain implementation it is).
One company using it effectively will turn into 10, which will turn into 100, and so forth. It's a complicated subject, but once the blockchain companies can turn up to sales pitches or partnering discussions, with real-world use-cases to demonstrate to all the powerful non-techies, then it becomes that much easier to say "look this stuff works, and better than anything you have now, here's the proof".