The success of blockchain and cryptocurrencies isn't tied to payments. I keep seeing people post that we need to be able to buy everyday items for crypto to "make it" and I couldn't disagree more. Why do I need to make a real time purchase for BTC to be a success? What if BTC is really my savings and investment account combined? That's only trillions worth of value right there. I completely understand the previous logic that real time payments was the key to success but that was yesterday's crypto. Look at all the real solutions coming out for Supply Chain, AI, Healthcare, Big Data, Real Estate, and so much more. We don't need to take out a crypto debit card for this to all be wildly successful. For this reason I am not interested in any coin that's sole purpose is payments. LTC is a good example of a stay away for me. I don't see a future for any crypto who's sole purpose is payment at this point. The only caveat is getting the unbanked using crypto for low fee transactions which is a real need but I also think the solutions for that market are radically different then options we have today. What do you think?
But, dude. You are talking about real solutions but you do not think that these utility tokens are not solutions to problems. They are creating problems and then giving solutions.
If you truly believe in what you say, then you see that blockchain systems are the efficient solutions to industries you mention,,, but you do not need the addition of token economy! You can just create the blockchain and keep payments to existing crypto or even existing fiat.
Crypto was created as payment (therefor currency). All those bloody utility tokens are just,,, tokens. They were not needed, but people had to make money, so they created them. Lots of real world uses for blockchain like you said, and already lots implemented. But tokens never needed.
