In my opinion, IOTA is a bit weird, but if what they promisse work for real, we might expect some really interesting use cases.
At first i got into cryptocurrencies to try to understand the markets and see if i could do some profitable trades, but the deeper i digged, the more my head exploded.
It is a technology that just like the internet have a huge amount of possible uses in the future.
And yes, eventually, there will be blockchains working behind a lot of services.
As a currency, i am still 100% sure that they will be used as a mean of payment (around 80% sure), because of a lot of other political factors involved.
I will check your article, thank you for stopping by.