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November 08, 2013, 08:49:17 PM |
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Any coin linked to a physical asset will have the problem of requiring a gateway step, translating it from its fiat/physical form to digital, perhaps with a restrictive interface - though for certain assets (e.g. teddy bears) AML laws will not be as strict. Coins pegged to digital assets however, such as disk space, bandwidth, instructions (for an off-site processing service) would require no such gateway step. The tokens could be traded freely through payment systems like Open Transactions/Ripple/Coloured Coins/Mastercoin/a new blockchain and then redeemed directly for services. If these services were themselves decentralised, then you would have a completely decentralised, asset-pegged currency, and I see this being the way to go for certain services (web-hosting, storage, cloud computing) - and by offering these resources yourself, you could generate coins that could be exchanged for other goods and services, or other currencies.
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