If Bitcoin solved one problem it will be huge, not 10 billion marketcap (which is ridiculous, it's not even close to a blue chip company).
bitcoin does solve a number of problems.. the most notable is transfer of money over the internet without a bank.. OH, and it is huge!!
edit: why do you compare btc to a company?? is gold a company??
People just use banks and credit cards (and Paypal, Google Wallet, Apple Pay, whatever). I agree with you that people who don't have access to banks can benefit, but these are usually non tech savvy people who won't figure out how to work even the simplest wallets. Plus, how they buy Bitcoin with in the first place? Cash? nope...credit cards, banks, etc. I know because it happened to me, getting Bitcoin is a pain in the ass in third world countries, there's no simple and safe solution like Coinbase or whatever.
I understand what you are saying though, Bitcoin proposes a solution but the problem is not there yet, in terms of market at least. I was comparing cryptocurrencies and blockchains, some have a company behind (like Factom and Ripple) so it's not clear where's the value at, if in the company or the token/currency (I think on both).
Regarding Bitcoin: I believe it's the other way around. The problem for that Bitcoin could be a solution is already there but Bitcoin can't be a solution if it stays where it is. The Blocks are already full. Bitcoin couldn't handle enough transactions to be a solution for existing problems.
I don't want to say it's doomed because I hope that it will be improved but something needs to happen or another Cryptocurrency will take over - Ethereum for example and I wouldn't like to see that.
About Factom, company vs token: The value of Factoids will reflect the use of the system (because every time somebody buys EC's, Factoids are burned through conversion into EC'S). The company does a lot to get customers for the protocol and they are very good in that.
And I believe it's even possible that the marketcap of Factoids could be above the value of the company.
Factom marketcap is ridiculous undervalued and many here tried to explain it, maybe it is heavy manipulation I really don't know. What I know is that last time I checked Maid, Doge and other bad jokes (sorry but really...) were well above it. Don't get me started on Steem.
Maybe Bitcoin gets an upgrade before the end of the year, I don't really think that's the real problem though, I can send BTC just fine. The problem is that no one wants to spend it because you are losing money doing that considering all the fees passing from fiat to BTC. For many it's pretty simple but for the majority it just doesn't make sense, it's cumbersome and expensive (and now it's painfully slow on top of that). I also understand many anarchists concepts behind it, I won't get into that, to me it's too out there to think the world economic system will collapse. It has been collapsing my whole life. It may transition into something different but BTC won't be world's currency unless it was actually designed to be just that (and if this would be the case we would be rich so there's no point in arguing...)
Anyway, even if BTC was just as quick as Ripple for example, this won't change anything. Regular people won't mess with decimals and wallets and conversions. So it kinda reinvented itself as a storage of wealth or digital gold for now. We'll see if that alone will do fo the next years.
We may have digital gold (BTC), oil/gas (ETH?), we even have tokens that act as equity and shares now...but do we have digital cash? quick, simple, old fashioned cash? That would be the blockchain killer app.