Great article from blockchain.info's co-founder.
Blockchain Co-Founder Nicolas Cary: You Can Be Your Own BankThis is a particularly important topic:
"We are looking forward into the future and we think we are going to continue to be able to provide financial services for a millions of people around the world and there is no financial system on the planet that can compete with that today. The use-cases for a Bitcoin continue to evolve. Right now we see cross border payments as having a great potential, as well as digital payments for digital goods being very popular - people buying songs online, people buying digital content and games, things like that".He sees microtransactions as an interesting and evolving use-case of Bitcoin. However, it is still rare, because of the underdevelopment in fee-structures and scaling protocols.Very good article, the world needs a low cost vehicle for micro transactions that is fast and low cost and there is significant opportunity for a crypto that makes these transactions easy, coupled with wide spread adaption.