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I agree, let's all stop fighting about what is and what isn't bubble and just look at the tech and potential.

Here are a few use cases I'm excited for:

* SONM / Golem as an entryway to fog computing.

* IOTA / WTC / VEN as entryways for exchanging value and information in an IOT infrastructure.

* NANO for exchanging value without deteriorating the original principal through fees.

* ETH / NULS / ECC - Tokenization to represent distributions of hard to divide securities. The doors are open to invest in startups, offices, applications and ideas without having to get approval on what you want to support.

* BTC / ETH as trading pairs. This acts as a new stock market that doesn't close. One where trades can even be private (on a DEX such as cryptobridge or barterdex).

Yes there are massive scams and there is questionable value in the 'store of value' use case BTC is currently defending. Every new idea is bound to have growing pains.

The larger implications is that software engineers now have the power and tools to create distributed shared systems that interact with the population at large in new and yet unforeseen ways.

It won't happen overnight but saying there is no value in what is currently there is purposefully misleading.

(edit) bad phrasing



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