One of the key features that sold me was the online wallet and easy cheap forging that can be done on any PC. I know us hard core cryptos carry our wallets everywhere, have the best miners, create cold storage and have all the best encryption software but if we ever want cryptocoins to be more than a hipster club we have got to make it easy for people who don't want to read the white papers, join a mining pool, buy hardware or even understand what a blockchain is to use. NODE is the next step in that process. Plus when immigrant workers find out that they can send FIAT back home for such a small fee and they don't have to worry about government X banning it because some federal bank wanted to ban decentralized currencies this thing is going to explode. We just have to carry it until then.