Every new technology has to start somewhere, with many first iterations seemingly leaving many people scratching their heads as to its overall usefulness.
For every naysayer around the concept of Blockchain, there is another who is able to champion its worth. The MySpace analogy for Bitcoin and Blockchain is a useful one for those still scratching.
Bitcoin is the Generation 0 of blockchain technology… the opening act… the gateway drug … the first inning … MySpace.
We must thank her for her work, as none of the following technology would be available without Satoshi’s Bitcoin, but we’re about to go much, much, further.
While Satoshi converged a database structure with peer-to-peer networking, cryptographic tokenization, consensus formation algorithms, and game theoretical economic incentivization to create a means for trustless digital storage and transmission of value, the "Digital Gold" use case, is only one use case.
Bitcoin as a digital store of value is the least interesting use of blockchain … There, I said it.