| The article hints at some of these at the end of the article, but here's a few things maybe: - the option for non-custodial and semi-custodial ownership of things like digital assets, from currency to domain names to other types of online property. most of our digital assets today are custodial, owned by companies seeking to gain profit and create moats. maybe some users would like another option, despite the additional risk of having to maintain their own private keys. - fast settlement times for worldwide payments that do not require routing through a centralized intermediary that will skim a significant percentage off the top of each trade. fees paid in a PoS system can be redistributed to all participants in the network through burning + staking and delegation, which is a very different way of handling payment processor fees than what we have now - a network of financial applications and systems that is permissionless, so that anybody can fork an existing tool or deploy their own tool without going through regulatory hurdles and roadblocks based on an archaic tightly permissioned boys-club financial system - smart contract functionality like a 0% fee crowdfund contract that can support hundreds of thousands of participants, settle instantly, and even provide shares as tokens back to donors in case some future rewards should be distributed back to early investors - generally better payment systems that use new cryptographic primitives rather than pencil signatures on paper, insecure card numbers and 4-digit PINs, constant privacy invasive systems |