I get the impression it was "this product would be really useful if it could be invented, let's get some investors in and then make it" but they never bothered to check whether it was actually possible until it was too late
This happens a whole lot in Blockchain.
Groundbreaking ideas that people throw money at despite being cryptographically impossible.
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I get the impression it was "this product would be really useful if it could be invented, let's get some investors in and then make it" but they never bothered to check whether it was actually possible until it was too late