Always keep one of your eyes on alternative cryptos that offer innovation.
While many p2p protocols are useful, cramming every app into a freaking currency is asinine.
To be good enough as a currency to compete for the monopoly position of liquidity provider requires a laser focus on that specific end. Any added functions create a tax on the economy of the whole market. Liquidity abhors friction.
There are other far better, far more efficient, far more
honest ways to incentivize the maintenance of a block chain for your bittorrent or twitter or whatever.
Any " innovations" that amount to embedding a tiny little lobotomized robotic Ben Bernanke into every computer on the Internet are quite unlikely to add any value. Like lifetime of the universe unlikely.
You aren't going to improve chopsticks. You aren't going to improve the core function of liquidity - just make it efficiently usable. Any " innovation" that makes it less efficiently usable is a SCAM.
Does this not beg the question? Or words to that effect.
If you create a P2P currency and pile on lots of other features that restrict that function, that's a Bad Thing.
If you create a platform for a digital economy and cash transfer happens to be one of the features that is leveraged for that ends, why is that a Bad Thing? Especially as useful functions are going to attract different people, thus bringing greater liquidity.
That's the point of a programmable currency, the core system can stick to the KISS principle while allowing any amount of complex functions to be added externally. Some (a very few) of the alts have innovative features but nearly all of them can be implemented on top of Bitcoin and its by far the toughest network.