The average Joe doesn't know what the Internet of Things or future disrupting techs are. He's going to know what they are AFTER it has reached massive adoption; he will just know how to use them.
For any crypto-currency to reach mass adoption, it needs to be combined with emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, among others. Lisk is a platform that runs decentralized applications, so combining the Lisk platform to the IoT is very possible. Blockchain technology has evolved past its terminology of "digital money", it's much more than that; it is capable of connecting billions of devices with higher efficiency and lower fees.
Ok, I (and average Joe with me) can follow you there. But Why do we need 'coins' for that? Two years ago, bitcoin hit the news with pumps and dumps. Not a word about blockchain. Now blockchain hits the news as a technology but not a word about bitcoin (local media in my small European country). People can imagine the technology could be useful when everything is connected to the internet. But why the use of coins that are very unstable in price?? I see, among the numerous dapps proposed, an emailsystem. People don't want to pay for that!
And IF you need a certain amount of Lisk/btc/whatever-coin (now there's your Doge2
) an the coin is worth 1$ day one and 25$ day 30 then back to 3$ day 31, they don't buy it (in both ways)...
So: Tech: great great! blockchain, IoT: super but coins? Nah.... Just look at this or any thread of altcoins in the last years: 10% tech, 70% Moon, rockets get your engines started and 20% memes. Looks childish, shady, Ponzi and VERY VERY unstable.
I posted this remark in the NXT-thread when they started their trip to the moon(yey, I was there), in the NEM-thread (same thing) at the beginning:
Let's say the tech is superb AND the price is fixed at 0.10$ and it will NEVER change but the tech is AWESOME. How popular would these threads be?