Quote from: zipnoid on January 05, 2023, 08:57:31 PM

I've been wondering recently what's ahead for us in terms of the evolution of digital currencies.
There has been a lot of amazing development with blockchain and cryptocurrencies in general in the past decade. But I wonder if there's anyone working on other ideas or technologies that could also be promising. I'm not talking about altcoins. I mean real breakthrough ideas, similar to what happened when Bitcoin was originally introduced. It would be really exciting to witness the birth of something completely new in the next years/decades. I'm sure we have other brilliant "Satoshis" out there.
I'd love to learn more about cool projects and concepts that could be the evolution of blockchain (again, not altcoins please Wink

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Well in the end Ethereum is also "just another altcoin" if you see it that way but i think it was Ethereum that was the most important project to bring the crypto space into the mainstream and not bitcoin. The reason for that is pretty simple, Ethereum was the first project that introduced the smart contract functionality into the crypto space and that changed everything. Without smart contracts we would have no tokens, no NFT's and the whole concept of Defi would also not be possible. Dexes would also not be existant.

I have no idea how "the next big thing" could look like but i am sure that if it comes, then it will come pretty much out of nowhere for us normal people.