My prediction: KYC ultimately goes away. The internet is a giant meshnet like hyperboria, and web sites are hashed and served p2p (like IPFS or bitTorrent). This means all content is immutable and censorship free. All requests require a micro-payment sent to the seeder. Anyone can surf or stream for free as long as they also seed content to others for payment.
Could this be Monero's killer app? A decentralized, bitTorrent-like p2p network where leechers pay seeders to serve them content?
What you wrote there pretty much describes MaidSafe.
Thing is... they have not gotten to the actual implementation part of the SafeCoin yet so I could see some scenario where SAFE actually could maybe implement Monero on top instead. Or in addition to, same as how BTC and XMR may happily co-exist each serving a specific niche need (open transparent gold store of value and closed private secure cash transaction medium, respectfully).
One of the biggest interesting things about MaidSafe to me is that its crypto SafeCoin doesn't have or need ANY "blockchain" (since apparently the native file storage architecture of serverless websites IS the "hard disk" itself, so the "blockchain" will just live on that.
Or... something like that. LOL.
I still don't fully grok exactly what those guys are doing but I bought into it a few years ago in their crowdsale for like 4 cents per MaidSafeCoin. I put just ONE bitcoin into it back then, totally on a whim, just because I was impressed that they're trying to build something SO AMBITIOUS. So far MaidSafeCoin is my second-best performing crypto investment, beaten only by Monero after XMR's stellar 2016 performance
Anyway sorry for the derail again... back to Monero Speculation.
You guys think THIS bump last couple days is really the launch of our expected SPRING RALLY...? Or is this a head-fake and still too early?