But we know even simpler solutions from the past can work without much help from tech
Yes, in the past, f.e. a bag of flour was a decent mean of exchange. And most important thing that you could use this "coin" for your own needs without any other third-party, directly. Unless you need some third-party to use your money, it is vulnerable.
Also, bag of flour have another important property - you can't accumulate much and for a long time. You should either use it, either exchange for goods. There was no possibility for extremely wealthy "flour elite" creation.
However, of course, today, bag of flour can't be a widely used mean of exchange. So, we have to think out some modern replacement.
I saw it, but as many other experiments of that kind (Third Reich, Paraguay, etc.), they does not break out to anywhere and were cut down or just fade silently.
It is a sign that something is wrong with concept. If we imagine that some decent type of money was invented, without aforementioned problems, then that money had to uncontrollably spread out of experiment location all over the world ignoring borders, laws and other stuff.
As I said, some kind of such success was observed only with bitcoin. But bitcoin, as any crypto have many other problems, so it is also not what we need.
As for barter - it is not that simple, because current money is basically barter too, but we exchange our goods and efforts not to some useful things, but to sheets of paper or digits in bank computer. It is a barter for some unneeded and controllable fake shit, but disguised with some propaganda from state.
Minimum conditions that have to be met to make the currency successfull, I suppose are following:
No any authority who could control the currency.
Ease of use for exchange
Usefulness of currency itself as some needed thing
Inability to play with value of currency
For now, I can't think out nothing other than some kind of "energy money" where a unit of energy represent a unit of currency. If you have a tiny battery with 1 kWh of energy, then no authority could play with its value, it is easy to use for exchange, it could be used directly by owner, and so on.
I'm shure there should be other things and concepts of that kind, and it is very interesting thing to explore. May be some of concepts even could be perfectly implementable with current level of tech.
Yes, in the past, f.e. a bag of flour was a decent mean of exchange. And most important thing that you could use this "coin" for your own needs without any other third-party, directly. Unless you need some third-party to use your money, it is vulnerable.
Also, bag of flour have another important property - you can't accumulate much and for a long time. You should either use it, either exchange for goods. There was no possibility for extremely wealthy "flour elite" creation.
However, of course, today, bag of flour can't be a widely used mean of exchange. So, we have to think out some modern replacement.
I saw it, but as many other experiments of that kind (Third Reich, Paraguay, etc.), they does not break out to anywhere and were cut down or just fade silently.
It is a sign that something is wrong with concept. If we imagine that some decent type of money was invented, without aforementioned problems, then that money had to uncontrollably spread out of experiment location all over the world ignoring borders, laws and other stuff.
As I said, some kind of such success was observed only with bitcoin. But bitcoin, as any crypto have many other problems, so it is also not what we need.
As for barter - it is not that simple, because current money is basically barter too, but we exchange our goods and efforts not to some useful things, but to sheets of paper or digits in bank computer. It is a barter for some unneeded and controllable fake shit, but disguised with some propaganda from state.
Minimum conditions that have to be met to make the currency successfull, I suppose are following:
For now, I can't think out nothing other than some kind of "energy money" where a unit of energy represent a unit of currency. If you have a tiny battery with 1 kWh of energy, then no authority could play with its value, it is easy to use for exchange, it could be used directly by owner, and so on.
I'm shure there should be other things and concepts of that kind, and it is very interesting thing to explore. May be some of concepts even could be perfectly implementable with current level of tech.