I'm a little sleep-deprived now, but I think that what I had in mind was actually something of a new model for currency, rather than just a new measure/forum for it.
I had in mind something that wouldn't need to start off with a way to convert to hard currency. Rather than being able to be converted into hard currency, it would have some sort of digital backing, ie. bandwidth, hard drive space, etc. The currency would then be self-regulating. It wouldn't be pegged to any real-world currency, but rather its value would be set by supply vs. demand. Also, it wouldn't be contained in any central bank/database. Instead, it could be possessed by individuals. Am I making any sense, or should I go to sleep? I'm leaning toward the later now. Best Regards, Drew http://www.drewbradford.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Gordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:11 pm Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Money > On Thursday 14 August 2003 19:58, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 06:47:11PM +0100, Gordan Bobic spake thusly: > > > It is the money laundering aspect that is problematic at the > "link"> > point. Coming up with a secure and anonymous on-line > cash-token exchange > > > protocol is quite simple. > > > > Now, if a bank in the Caymans which does not report the money > and allows > > anonymous accounts were to set up a freenet node... > > Don't need anything to do with a real already existing bank. Just > set up a > company in the Caymans (if they indeed don't have laws to curb > things like > money laundering, which I doubt), and use that instead. > > Unfortunately, due to legalities of "dissapearing" money, this is > unlikely to > fly. > > Gordan > _______________________________________________ > devl mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
