[epanchin]

Much easier to charge users using their own credit cards. Don’t see what crypto is solving here?

In your email example, what is the advantage to you over charging a subscription? How do you create ongoing revenue?

[seibelj]

No one profited from the creation or success of the SMTP protocol except those who created services that operated on top of it.

Similarly, someone creates a new open-source project and AWS hosts it and earns all the money.

Blockchain allows you to create protocols that actually profit as more people use the base layer. This is a brand new thing.