People don't realize that to make this technology viable, you need enterprise customers. Who do you think enterprise is going to trust (a decentralized, Asian based crypto-community). Or STORJ.
over half of the world's population is in asia... enterprise clients exist outside of wherever you live, poor example. siacoin is also a blockchain solution with nextcloud (who are huge). decentralization is a huge benefit, and will be looked at as an even greater asset in the future.