[mbrock]

Look at steemit.com (steem.io) for a glimpse of the application of blockchain to social media.

Basically: the blockchain's ability to represent value turns upvotes into microdonations.

Suddenly writers of popular content are rewarded in liquid tokens for their efforts. That's a pretty big deal.

The internet itself is a shiny new hammer. Turns out you can bang on a lot of different things with it and actually cool things happen.