I don't know much about cryptocurrency, but have been investigating Storj recently for backup storage space because a HashBackup customer asked about it.<p>Storj created an Ethereum-based token and one of its purposes was so they could cheaply issue micropayments to a distributed network of international storage node operators. The issuing micropayments part appears to work, but getting tokens converted to fiat, ie spendable money, appears to be difficult and expensive according to many posts on their forums.<p>So the idea of cryptocurrencies enabling micropayments, while good in theory, seems to not be working so great in practice. Most of the responses to this problem are "It will get fixed with Etherium 2.0" or something like that. It's funny how most problems in life are "to be fixed later".