[CraigRood]

I know the question may not be directed to myself, but I will answer why I believe in Bitcoin. The real value is in the Decentralised/P2P store of money. This allows not just people, but entities and even software can "own" bitcoin.

For example a coffee machine that accept BTC, it can then pay for the water, electricity and buy more beans, milk etc from the Bitcoin it earns itself without human attention. Arguably easier to track the profitability and economics of the machine, with less effort - still needs to be cleaned and refilled (for now!).

You could take this one concept and apply them to things like self-driving cars or mobile phones.

[s73v3r_]

I fail to see anything regarding that coffee machine example that couldn't just as well be done with automated ordering.