Out of these 4 categories, marketplaces is the one that I think has the most potential for a breakaway change.
Micro-payments, micro-incentives and any kind of a scaling down of transactions is something I'm not exactly sure about. Maybe there's some cool stuff here, but I would be surprised.
Marketplaces though are a different story. Marketplaces have been developing into giants since the internet began and the financial infrastructure for running them is terrible.
Ecommerce, native or not, will also be impacted. Anti-fraud & payment verification colour the world of ecommerce enough. Solving friendly fraud (mostly chargebacks) could enable a lot of otherwise transactions and serve underserved markets (EG shipping goods to high risk countries like most of Africa).
ATM though BTC is still in a shaky place. Even bitcoin owners don't use it much. Most people don't have bitcoin wallets so unless a service is important enough to make people use it, BTC cannot be the only option.
Marketplaces are the kind of thing where users can be forced to use the payment method available. EG, if Uber paid driver in BTC, drivers would accept BTC.
what you said and decentralized marketplace could emerge with bitcoin, where marketplace works like a blockchain explorer. Craigslist + bitcoin = Alibaba
Micro-payments, micro-incentives and any kind of a scaling down of transactions is something I'm not exactly sure about. Maybe there's some cool stuff here, but I would be surprised.
Marketplaces though are a different story. Marketplaces have been developing into giants since the internet began and the financial infrastructure for running them is terrible.
Ecommerce, native or not, will also be impacted. Anti-fraud & payment verification colour the world of ecommerce enough. Solving friendly fraud (mostly chargebacks) could enable a lot of otherwise transactions and serve underserved markets (EG shipping goods to high risk countries like most of Africa).
ATM though BTC is still in a shaky place. Even bitcoin owners don't use it much. Most people don't have bitcoin wallets so unless a service is important enough to make people use it, BTC cannot be the only option.
Marketplaces are the kind of thing where users can be forced to use the payment method available. EG, if Uber paid driver in BTC, drivers would accept BTC.