The absolute shitshow that’s been some of the most visible open source projects recently just reinforces my thoughts that one cannot establish trust (and therefore support) with any project leads unless they show their political affiliations upfront. The same way we demand to see a Foss license, we should expect to see what kind of person someone is before we use our community support to elevate them in any position of technical authority.

It isn’t, as your link shows, no other successful use other than cryptocurrencies or things explicitly tied to cryptocurrencies exist. There’s theoretical uses, sure, but nothing practical. Ipso facto it’s just for cryptocurrencies.

You’re wrong there. The only use case of blockchain is cryptocurrencies .