It’s easy in hindsight, but I think digital cameras had lower quality initially, and lower capacity, but it was clear that it’s a question of scaling until they replace film. Especially with instant feedback. Similarly early amazon was already useful for what it did.

> The ability to do distributed trusted transactions will change how business is done.

Trusted transactions are already done. The distributed part doesn’t solve a realistic problem in 99.99999% of use-cases. That’s why I think cryptocurrency feels like a solution looking for a problem.