When people use the word “blockchain” to promote their new idea/business, I immediately become skeptical of the underlying intentions. I feel that, a lot of times, such endeavors are mainly about hyping up a new “token”/currency that is being launched for the primary benefit of the founders, rather than actually delivering the social good that is being promised.
If this project is being conducted in good faith, then I suppose it could be summarized as a platform (technology and infrastructure) for connecting go teachers and players. Why is blockchain so essential for doing this?
One of the claims is that this is the “First-ever Go decentralized application”. However, actually, there has been at least one other scheme applying blockchain technology to the game of go (for gambling). In fact, coincidentally, someone even recently bumped the thread where it was being discussed here.