One of the major advantages I think is not actually the payment system potential, but the functionality that smart contacts offer.
Bitcoin is definitely lagging behind in this area, as it will either require a few forks, or sidechain implementation to approach the smart-contract functionality offered by its rivals, but once it gets there, decentralized applications and decentralized file storage systems are only a matter of time.
Well one of the simplest and fruitful way how can we be productive here is that you should involved yourself in signature campaigns which offer a fairly and awesome amount of money for every given tasks with the integration of a fulfilling kind of projects and service that they offer to everyone and for every service that you have done, it is exchangeable with a certain amount of token which you can trade.