Quote from: John_Paul on July 27, 2017, 09:05:13 PM

Quote from: albusxx on July 27, 2017, 08:54:50 PM

Why is this project so popular? Are people seeing future growth potential or believe they would use the service themselves?

Because of its real world adoption - https://forum.iota.org/t/publicly-announced-iota-real-world-projects-tracker/1820

And IoT has a trillion dollar market to explore. There is a chance, who knows, and this chance multiplied by trillions of dollars is worth some good amount of money.