Sort:  

I think the patents are to prevent attacks by other companies trying to profit from his and other research. The goal all along was permissionless transactions and free markets, which hopefully BTC ETH STEEM DASH EOS can provide.

Hopefully yes, cause bitcoin obviously failed at it.

I only see it as a gateway to being able to buy other cryptos nowadays.

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.15
TRX 0.23
JST 0.032
BTC 84739.59
ETH 2176.62
USDT 1.00
SBD 0.67