The Decentralized Future Series - Bitcoin

There is a massive divide between the promises of cryptocurrency and the use cases they currently support. Most skeptics point out reasonably that there's little to show regarding real adoption. At the same time, people in industry argue that they need time to finish the infrastructure before they can deliver game changing apps. And the tribalism clouding the topic doesn't help. There is room for dialogue that would benefit both sides. A good method for discovering startup ideas is to look into technological breakthroughs and think about what they unlock that wasn't possible before. In this introductory post, we are going to use this framework. We'll look at Bitcoin and consider potential use cases that we can directly deduce from its properties. We'll discuss the common counter-arguments and what needs to happen for each use case to become widely adopted. Continued here