Underestimate blockchain at your peril

Meanwhile, in the real world, the predominant language for writing smart contracts was modelled on JavaScript, and the docs for it (insofar as there were any docs) said how easy it was to write code for it... and the first (and second, and third) major uses of smart contracts all imploded with more or less all the money stolen by hostile attackers and/or people just playing due to bugs that could not be fixed.