What average person has a need for blockchain? I seriously don't get the comparison.
What average person had a need for internet in 1994 ? People don't used and don't use Internet as it, average joe use internet because of the applications running on it.
Pretty much the same things with blockchain tech
>I seriously don't get the comparison.
A blockchain is a public distributed database, internet was a decentralized public network
The trustlessness linked to the use of public blockchain is a major novelty in the tech world.
Are there actual solutions to this problem?
Plasma MVP (built upon Ethereum blockchain) was just released. Plasma is supposed to be able to handle more then 1 million transactions per second, which is way more then what Visa handle right now
https://github.com/omisego/plasma-mvp
https://blog.omisego.network/construction-of-a-plasma-chain-...
There were fairly successful predecessors to the Internet, i.e. bulletin boards and Teletext. There was clearly a demand for a stream of information into your home.