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Though I feel like a lot of BTCers are not interested in this, payment networks based on top of BTC would be very interesting.

Essentially no barrier to entry, and some federation could happen.

Of course, what you end up doing is creating banks, but hey they're not regulated by the government if you are behind 5 proxies? "Hobbyist bankers" might be fun.

The ultimate frustration of bitcoin is that it can occupy the entire range of decentralization, but the community compares everything to the logical limits of "the Federal Reserve will defeat math and generate BTC" and "I don't even have to trust my own computer to do this transaction!".