1. In most cases, the cryptocurrency purchase would help support a project that I believe is innovative and helps further the adoption of blockchain technology. Otherwise, the project provided a good service that I wanted to utilize but needed their native token in order to pay the network fees.

2. In a nutshell, the fact that we now have a means to make data more secure and yet publicly verifiable. I believe there are significant use-cases still to be explored and discovered.


We'll need to organize a longer conversation for me to really answer that question. In short, I believe that it will be the foundation for a society of decentralized information and cross-network communications. In turn, this can help to enforce the credibility of news and fight misinformation. I believe that it could be used to establish a fairer legal system; one where punishments and verdicts are based upon a decentralized database of records and case history. Who knows?

I know blockchain technology is the future, and I'm here to embrace it!