This article is over two years old, and all of the things it promised never happened.
There is actually a government developed blockchain that has worked flawlessly for a decade and more as it's older then Bitcoin!
https://e-estonia.com/solutions/cyber-security/ksi-blockchain/So you can't say that nothing happened when it happened before the article!

Technology that resemble blockchain already exist since late 90s. But on other hand, i wonder since when they use blockchain. I haven't done through research, but it looks like they create their own distributed immutable system since 2007, but later decide to call it blockchain.