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When some of our customers websites had this, it were actually internal problems with the webserver service (nginx) connecting to PHP processes via UNIX sockets. One time it was a permission problem and another time the server was targeted by aggressive crawling and several internal limits prevented enough processes to be available to connect to. So the “gateway” is probably the socket or its connection.
Yes, you could, for example, use it to manage who is allowed to park in a garage, anonymously. The owner of a parking spot NFT can unlock the door from the outside. Stuff like that.
However, it’s also possible to do that with a small web application. Just payments and transfer of the parking spots are less free and it’s not decentralized.
It’s just a fad. There’s just a small bit that will stay after the hype is gone. You know, like blockchain, AR, metaverse, NFT and whatever it was before that. In a few years there will be another breakthrough with it and we’ll hear from it again for a short while, but for now it’s just a one trick pony.
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