Two points
So the DTA is just another level bureaucracy and project management.
Yep that's going to always end well, because what every IT project needs is a bunch of fucking halfwits with less than no idea telling you how to do something. So they can either cover themselves in glory if it succeeds or distance themselves if it fails
Alexander said as well as the PM's interest, “lots of vendors” are talking to the government about blockchain.
Well of course they are, there is a lot of money to be made selling snake oil