Hi, i'm here to talk about an "idea" that poped in my mind just when i wanted to sleep last night (that's always like that ... can't sleep after ...)
What money/currency has not instead of a lot of "measures", the unit :When you use any unit of distance, you can express it in meters.
When you use any unit of time, you can express it in seconds.
When you use money, everyone use something different. Most of the world express it in Dollar or Euro.
But it's not units, it's currencies, that fluctuate all the time.
Sometimes sellers have to change their prices in "real" money because of the fluctuations, but with digital currencies, the prices are never the same.
Example of a sandwich sold by a bakerLet's say that a baker that sell is sandwich at 3$ want to use digital currencies. So he will try to use BitCoin and use the equivalent in bitcoin to the price in $.
But because of the fluctuation he will have to change the price everyday or so, not to sell it too cheap or too expansive
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Like i've read in a
french article, a journalist tried to buy something in a bakery "accepting Bitecoins". But the baker had stopped to took Bitcoins, because he thought he couldn't keep with the pace of this currency.
Why not use a fixed unit ?So i thought, if we could use a international/universal unit, like any measures, could it make things easier ? (Like gold was used before i think ?)
That's what i mean by 'universal currency unit' (or 'unic' / Uc)
If you set a FIXED unit, and put currencies value with it, you can express every currency in this unit, exchange what you want of this unit using many currencies.
For digital currencies which have a very fluctuating value, maybe a short life, would it be really useful ?
And you can set something that is not related to any country (because even real money can be expressed in it)
So for the case of our baker, he could give the price of his sandwich in Unic and his country money (like we had for euro when it came)
He will just have to say what currencies he accept
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So i think this would help to make seller accept better the digital currencies
Or maybe i'm just a fool, and for sure i forgot a lot of parameters ^^
What's next ?if you think it's an interesting idea, vote for it.
If you would want to create something on that, or discuss more about it,
i'm about to make a forum.
If you think it's really stupid, say it too
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(ps : i will rewrite this post, it's a little messy ...)