They just need decentralized and cryptographically verified guarantees, like with what decentralized Reddit (notabug.io) and other apps, built on our system ( https://github.com/amark/gun ), that is already pushing terabytes traffic weekly in production.
The future for scaling is more about working around double-spend/blockchain than trying to make double-spend/blockchain systems themselves to be scalable (trying to do that would require violating various CAP Theorem / physics rules).
But dApps are unused. Customers are not paying 7x the price for decentralized verification. Centralized servers can be tampered with, but no one cares about your 4th of july pictures or saved games.
Unless currency, voting, or a timestamp is involved, you dont use expensive verification methods.
The sheer cost of blockchain makes it insane to imagine apps being built on it. Currency has typically required firepower to move money and different ways to verify money is real money. This is a real case for using blockchain.
Listed 0 applications but said "Yeahh man its gonna happen"
Sounds like the idiots on /r/cryptocurrency, doesnt sound like a programmer.
But if shit hits the fan, ETH could decide to do something serious itself.
I just don't understand it.
i don't find it all that surprising.
i also don't see ETH and ETC as being in competition. and i hold both as well. :)
i can see a scenario where some applications are housed by ETC and others by ETH. sky rocketing gas prices and transaction fees kinda defeat the purpose i'd say (for anybody other than speculators and miners), and given the network load sometimes, that would make a lot of sense until some working scalability solutions are in place.
but if you want to know what i find interesting far as ethereum apps go, i can list those: Augur, MakerDAO, DAOStack. those are examples of efforts that regardless of what goes down would not have been in vain and have already made significant contributions to the better understanding of things in their respective domains.
ETC, can't say so much about, they seem a little hush hush, but they recently did launch a complementary chain dedicated to smart contract security audits for both ETH and ETC (but paid for from their treasury), and i also think the proposed ERC-223 (by an ETC member) makes a lot of sense and personally hope that it does get approved to substitute the current ERC-20. overall, i just wouldn't disregard the efforts made.
and i think i'm more or less keeping my tone civil, no? too much to ask for the same? (directed at the person below, that)