If you take nothing else from this article, take this: Blockchain is not important if no one uses it. Instead of waiting around hoping your ETH makes you a millionaire, try creating or at least joining the ecosystem that will make crypto something we use in the future.
I'm going to use this post to shill myself and a project that I am very passionate about. I hope that's not too frowned upon. I am only loosely affiliated with the Tokenville team, but I do believe that they are building something that could potentially become very important in the future.
Very few of you have ever heard of Tokenville or their first and only completed show so far: Deus ETH. This is a shame because it kicks ass.
screenshot from the first Deus ETH episode "Bloody Kitties"
Tokenville is a decentralized entertainment platform. Developers are also welcome to develop their own shows. The idea is to have blockchain-based shows, created for those who want to own a part of a show as opposed to only watching it. Just imagine being able to own your favorite character from Game of Thrones. Also imagine being able to generate revenue through the ownership of these popular characters from a blockchain show's universe. Doesn't that sound like a unique improvement upon our current entertainment industry?
I hate to point out the "generate revenue" aspect, but I believe that is ultimately what makes a new disruptive technology, well, disruptive. The internet wasn't valuable when all you could do was talk in chatrooms (AOL). The internet became valuable when creative companies figured out how to internet properly (Amazon, eBay, Google, etc). Blockchain isn't particularly valuable yet, either. I believe fully that one day it will be, but not without platforms like Tokenville transforming the "normal" way we do things currently.
I don't want to write an enormous article about all the things I think Tokenville could become. If you are interested, please check out their website. If you prefer, join us in the discord to ask questions and we'll answer them as quickly as possible. Also follow me on twitter, where I actually post ideas more frequently than once a month :)
Bloody Kitties, in all its glory:
Website: https://tokenville.tv/
Discord: https://discord.gg/FQHkfsT
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tokenville_tv
Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/NateHart19