Adam Ludwin

[W]hat *are* people buying with Bitcoin that dwarfs its use in traditional e-commerce and on the dark web? Remarkably, the answer is something that DIDN’T EVEN EXIST when the Bitcoin paper was published and ONLY EXISTS NOW *because* it was published.

The answer is that, so far, the primary “commerce” use case emerging for Bitcoin is to buy *other digital assets*.

In just the last couple years, billions of dollars in purchases of digital assets have been made with Bitcoin (and Ethereum). . . . Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem has giving rise to an emergent “commerce” use case that no one, including Satoshi, could have predicted.

Stellar is designed specifically for tokenizing assets, which anyone can do by being an anchor on the network. It has a built-in order book for decentralized asset exchange. Its consensus model, SCP, strikes the right balance between decentralization and trust.