Well, this has been hidden well for me, only learned it exists from the Factom topic.
Can anyone give me 5 real life use case examples for this coin?
well with the smartchain client, there are a few features that are quite useful. the file hashing and verification is great from a security standpoint. say a developer releases some code and they have the file hashed and that hash encoded into the blockchain. say their account gets hacked and somebody changes the software so that they can infect people computers with the updated code. so somebody downloads the software and then runs it through the hash verification function that hashes the code and then checks the blockchain's data to see who posted it and when it was posted. if it comes back unverified even though its supposed to be on there.. then you know the code has been tampered with
another use is text encoding, which in a sense can be used to encode historical data permanently into the blockchain...it could be weather, stock prices, major events, and so on
there is also a way for the developer to encode data to the blockchain that will send alerts to everyone in case of urgent updates or whatever
with Radium Send, people can send radium or radon(smartchain asset) to a username instead of an address, which makes it an on blockchain user registration system fully decentralized
and because of the Radon is created through slow decay, it will keep people from spamming the blockchain with data while still being a non competetive method to store data if you want to, which helps control bloat.
also with user Verification code there adds a bit of trust to the system, if a user has been verified using some third party(say on here or slack and the person can prove that is their user name) people can trust that that user has access to that account, plus in case of that user getting hacked, that name can be unverified(all this does is change their status on the chain and nothing else) which means it would be harder for the hacked account to be used in some scamming plan.
and these are all being fleshed out as time goes by, but right now these things work very well, we have been doing testing for quite some time and jj's client is a very simple interface to use. plus once more users start to use the smartchain client and we get some feedback it will just become more polished and hopefully have a larger feature set than it currently already has.