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Information stored on a blockchain can be publicly accessible or private, the same way information on a file server, or a web server, or in a database can be. The medium and method of data storage don't determine the data's accessibility by other parties. The most well-known applications for blockchain (i.e. bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies) are typically fully public because they're designed so that the determination of any user's (or more precisely any address's) balance is simply the sum of every past transaction. This was likely done based on the belief that if people are able to see what every actor within a (financial) network is doing, there's less likelihood of shenanigans. As you point out, many of the initial, over-hyped promises of blockchain-based cryptocurrency haven't come to fruition—to put it mildly. Nevertheless, cryptocurrency is only one use case, and the underlying technology of blockchain can be used to store data about lots of things, not just which wallet has how many coins. When blockchains are used in other contexts, they're not necessarily publicly accessible, and even when they are they can still store data that's exclusive to a single user, or shared among a subset of users. This essentially works the same way e.g. a web server does—an end user can see certain parts of a web site with a web browser but not necessarily access all the files that make that possible, some of which are restricted to the web server process itself, some to the server administrator, and others to the kernel, for example.

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P.S. In case you're is interested, this was 100% written by an actual human. I also happen to be a researcher working on how blockchain is actually used by people and what potential it has for broadly affecting human society and culture. I wrote the above based entirely on my personal knowledge and the information in my puny human brain—not with the help of some BS chatbot or other "AI" nonsense, which is to say that I'm willing to make a claim that what I've written is actually true, which AI chatbots can't do since they're merely producing strings of words that matche the syntax of English closely enough to sound like they could be true. (And in case it's not obvious, "AI" is basically this year's "blockchain", aka an over-hyped and under-developed technology that's easily misunderstood and misrepresented, and in the short term will ultimately serve primarily to enrich a few a--holes).

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