If you are somewhere that network connectivity is an issue, there are usually free parking spots and no laundromats. I guess oasis vending machines could feasibly be an issue, but you're now hoping that some niche market solves some of bitcoin's problems around being a better solution than existing options.
Cryptocurrency's design targeted the libertarian dystopia related to the interdependent nature (and potential abuse) of governments and their currencies. Given that the dystopian context doesn't exist strongly enough, other options will continue to have advantages within the current context.
You're more likely to show benefits with this when you can provide oppressed peoples' crypto-wallets with balances that can be converted into subversive tools. This, of course, will gain more of certain types of attention than a young currency could want.
Paying for parking is easy as it is. Same with paying to wash clothes. If you can't get cities and coin-op owners to upgrade to card swipe technology, good luck with selling them on immature digi-currencies.
Cryptocurrency needs to think less about catching up in various verticals and more on creating the killer value app... and the problem is nobody is seeing big $'s around the things that today's currency transfer technology has trouble with. We're on the cusp of IoT. Internetless internet-based currency?
Cryptocurrency's design targeted the libertarian dystopia related to the interdependent nature (and potential abuse) of governments and their currencies. Given that the dystopian context doesn't exist strongly enough, other options will continue to have advantages within the current context.
You're more likely to show benefits with this when you can provide oppressed peoples' crypto-wallets with balances that can be converted into subversive tools. This, of course, will gain more of certain types of attention than a young currency could want.
Paying for parking is easy as it is. Same with paying to wash clothes. If you can't get cities and coin-op owners to upgrade to card swipe technology, good luck with selling them on immature digi-currencies.
Cryptocurrency needs to think less about catching up in various verticals and more on creating the killer value app... and the problem is nobody is seeing big $'s around the things that today's currency transfer technology has trouble with. We're on the cusp of IoT. Internetless internet-based currency?