I agree with you on the technological side. And the example you wrote are all technological use of crypto and especially the blockchain mechanism.
But unregulated crypto currency is the absolute biggest ponzi scheme ever existed. It's selling sand in the desert. If you are in it just an advice... Do not be the last fool.
it's gonna get regulated, the ftx collapse will accelerate this. and regulation will make the space bigger:
"There's a lot of consumers out there that are really interested in this, and intrigued by crypto, but would feel a lot more confident if those services were offered by their financial institutions," says Jorn Lambert, Mastercard's chief digital officer".
Mastercard is launching a program to let financial institutions offer cryptocurrency trading to their clients.
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and the real institutional investors would then get in the game (pension funds, sovereign funds, etc ) because of regulatory clarity and thus their compliance departments would allow them to purchase crypto.
not all of them (cppib recently said they're not interested in crypto), but even even a few allocating 1 to 2 percent of their total assets (which would still be in the billions) would propel the price up.