Great article, great analogy. There are many interesting applications being built (distribution applications), but distinguishing them from the application laye

Great article, great analogy. There are many interesting applications being built (distribution applications), but distinguishing them from the application layer is an important point. Bitcoin Lightning and Ethereum's version of it (raiden network) are better compared to an application layer, whereas a particular Dapp is more like a particular application powered by that layer. And so far, many of these applications have been hindered by the lack of such a layer, up until 2018 when I think it will see mainnet usage.