Power Structure Economics

[Tokenista]

"Nearly 95% of the State corrections commissioners, prison wardens, and treatment directors responding to a national survey supported creation and expansion of prison legal services. Cardarelli & Finkelstein, Correctional Administrators Assess the Adequacy and Impact of Prison Legal Services Programs in the United States, 65 J.Crim. L., C. & P.S. 91, 99 (1974). Almost 85% believed that the programs would not adversely affect discipline or security or increase hostility toward the institution. Rather, over 80% felt legal services provide a safety valve for inmate grievances, reduce inmate power structures and tensions from unresolved legal problems, and contribute to rehabilitation by providing a positive experience with the legal system. Id. at 95-98.See also ACA Guidelines, supra, n 4; National Sheriffs' Assn., Inmates' Legal Rights, Standard 14, pp. 33-34 (1974); Bluth, Legal Services for Inmates: Coopting the Jailhouse Lawyer, 1 Capital U.L.Rev. 59, 61, 67 (1972); Sigler, A New Partnership in Corrections, 52 Neb.L.Rev. 35, 38 (1972)." -Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817 (1977)
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/430/817/

Something that should begin to be acknowledged, Power does not wish to be held in one place. Currency is an Earth Current, similar to Electricity, or Water, but Currency is the Flow of Materials from the Earth. Currency is the Earth in motion. From the Human perspective, Currency is actually debt. If you work for $15.00 per hour, you are being promised that by putting your service to the use of the Brand, you will get $15.00 worth of service in return. No one has promised you any services at any particular date in the future, and you can not go get Gold from the bank. You have Fiat Notes issued by a Government saying "Legal Tender" you may legally "Tender", or pay, bestow upon, a person at some undetermined time in the future, to provide a service not negotiated directly with the person who gave you the notes.

So these notes are debt we hold, and others want it, because they want undetermined services that are none of your business when you tender your currency upon them for their service provided to you. The system works because the Earth wants to move, we do not want to live our lives with the materials within walking distance, we want cars imported using these notes as payments to people who can spend their transportation fees received in Debt Notes, and they can spend them how they please by providing them to others who have services they would like others to provide for them. This is the Earth Element of the Currency, directly seen in the Human Function of what we are perceiving as Debt.

So now, in Texas Jails currently there are Public Defenders with either too much Case Load, or they are Jaded, or Undereducated in critical thinking, or all 3. Because Public Defenders are no good in Texas, they don't like Habeas Corpus or don't know what it is, they want you to waive your Trial and take Probation, and most people arrested, even those who feel they are wronged, usually accept Probation. So when someone goes into a Jail and knows the Law, knows about Habeas Corpus, and Bivens, etc. Everyone congregates, if you can get people out of Jail teaching them about Double Jeapordy, or simply by reading the actual wording of the Law they are charged under, or the Texas Fair Defense act. People need that help, and they do not get it from the Public Defenders so they come to that person for it. And that person can then Trade their knowledge for Soups, or Candy, or Stamps, etc. The Indigent Inmates have Envelopes and Paper, the Inmates with money on their books have Food, and they all want to pay for Jailhouse Lawyer services provided.

This is a Power Structure.

Power Structures are Built on Access, like Cartells run the Smuggling Markets for materials and Humans because of both Prohibitions and Immigration Laws, and we in the Cryptocurrency World need to determine if we are giving proper Grounding (like an Electric Circuit) and flow, because the Power Structure will create new openings, even if by way of Gods.

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[Tokenista]

In our Push to create Currencies for Regions, Countries, etc.

We will be creating Currencies for Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Free Life Party, Armenia, Venezuala, and several other Countries in which there are people who could use their own currencies. We will teach people about Revolution, not to spread needless aggression but to have the Public of all nations informed as to how to overthrow Tyrants.

If you don't like that, you might be the reason people need to know how to Revolt around the World. The People are not to be afraid of the Government, but the Government is to serve the people so as not to become displaced.

We will be reviewing the Works of several Revolutionaries, discussing the modern mistaken idea that Revolution is a Communist undertaking, by educating everyone about the Phrygian Cap, the Phrygian Pole, and the Philosophy of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Federalism.

We will look at the Works of Revolutionary Documentation by the Black Panthers, the Move Organization, and other recent Modern American Revolutionary groups, as well as the Moorish Science Temple and others, along with Several International Revolutionaries such as Pancho Villa, Amillio Zapata, Muhammed Budaif, and others. As well as Documents such as the Federalist Papers and several modern Research Papers which have documented Revolutions, Human Society, and such instances as Warlords and Cartels.

This information will at some point during the international education, be printed in 1 location and a Ministerial group will be gathered to curate this information and create a Document in line with the will of the Gods.

This will be a Religious Document to be preserved not just so that we may Defend our own Spirits from oppression, but so that all people in the Future may do so also. So that we, in 1,000 years, may be called upon as the Anscestors when we are the Ancient Past.

We will be creating Temples, Towns, and several other organized groups around the World.

[Tokenista]

I just want to point out for everyone, there is a lot more Ancient Knowledge coming with this Network, this quote from the Introductory post is actually just a small snippet from here:
http://www.punicwax.com/2020/08/the-ogdoad-and-calendar-easter-and.html

The 1st Punic Currency in 2,000 Years!!!:

Historians don't know who the Plebians actually were, and they had a Triad with 2 Women (Libera and Ceres), it's not hard to figure out:

The Phoenicians had spread Farming and Gods, Art, Marriage, etc. During the Second Punic wars Spain was called New Carthage, or Nuevo Cartago or Nuevo Kartago. It was ruled by Hannibal Barca, whose last name meant "Thunder" and he inherited by his father. As a child he had been on a mountain in a Mercinary camp run by his father, learning about languages and war. Hannibal worshipped Eshmun, Hera and Hercules, and when Rome declared war on Carthage, Hannibal wasted no time and immediately went across Spain and France rounding up Horse worshipping Tribes. Then followed a route only taken by Hercules before him across the Alps losing 1/3 of his men and all his elephants, supposedly using Fire and Vinegar to destroy rocks along the way.

When he entered Italy he defeated various Roman Generals and Senators. Rome banned the word peace and for 15 years Italy was ruled by Hannibal, who made an alliance with Alexander the Great's, great great great great grandson, and Rome began burying their own people alive to atone to the Gods, and after consulting their Sibylline Books and the Oracles at Delphi, they accepted the Phrygian Goddess Cybele into their Pantheon. The Rural Goddess, the Goddess of the farming Colonies established by the Phoenicians for a thousand years before Rome began to expand. They then followed the advice of the young son of a dead general, went to Carthage and systematically burned it down for months. Destroying thousands of years of History, likely retained in the Library of Alexandria which is now destroyed.

This would also inadvertantly solidify a large part of human history. When Rome accepted Cybele, or Ceres, they won the Third Punic war. They destroyed Carthage, Crucified 6,000 people as sold everyone who hadn't fled into slavery. But as the empire developed they discovered a Holiday among the former Phoenician taught rural communities. They celebrated the Winter Solctice by giving gifts, and worshipped Mithra, God of Contracts, Marriage and Promises. Tying a string on your finger to increase memory of something for later is a Mithraic Ritual. So, the Roman Government became a Mithraic cult, meaning that by winning the war, Rome had been changed forever.

Liber, the Male Plebian God is like Liberty, while Libera the Goddess is like Liberal. Ceres is like Cereal Grains.

Liber and Libera are Wine related Dieties. Ceres is a Work and Harvest Goddess, she has underlings that represent farms Jobs, similar to the Muses being the Arts. Each God being a duty.

Ceres is also the namesake of Wax, which is Cera in Ancient Languages. Beeswax was the first Wax, and the Priestesses used to be called Bees.

The U.S. Founding Fathers were aware of some of this. When Brutus and the Senate killed Cesar they held up a Phrygian Pole. The Phrygian Cap was worn by freed Roman Slaves, so when Rome accepted Cybelle, they brought the Ides of March. Hannibal killed Cesar ultimately, or as Polybius put it "All that befell the Romans was of one man... one mind... Hannibal" -Polybius

[Tokenista]

And it is strange that while we have far more uses for Metals and Stones than we did 2,000 years ago and more, in terms of Silver in Photography and other uses, Gold as a Conductor, etc. We have far more applications for these and other Minerals today than we did then. But we are more reluctant to directly trade it today.

This is likely because in the past they were actually using the metals more widely in their fewer applications, meaning the same way people had drawers full of True "Silverware" maybe the coins themselves in their metal form was how the Earth was moving itself, to then be formed to create things.

This can be seen in the idea people have that "Our Economy is the Greatest in History!", and it ought to be. Look at the Obelisk at the Vatican marking St. Peter's Crucifixtion, brought there by the Romans before that and not for that purpose, but then used it for that and the Christians used it to Pilgrimage, and now the Vatican is there. But think about that, how there are like Collections of things.

I don't mean to narrow this concept to imply in any way Auctions are the singular root metric of this, but do want to point to Auctions and Museums. As more expensive Items are Collected Publically and Privately, there ought to be a better economy. There are more items being traded, and really our Economy is just a metric of those Earthen derived things, being moved around the Earth.

[Tokenista]

Just a random fact for everyone, I chose the name Tokenista as a namesake from the Zapatistas.

[Tokenista]

There are 2 ways to look at a card deck. 1 is the common one, Fortune, Gambling, suits representings Numercial Value.

The other way, is to see the 52 Cards as 52 Weeks, the 4 Suits as 4 Seasons. Fate. The Tarot Deck is the same as a Playing Card Deck.

From there, each of the 52 Cards and 4 Weeks contain Moon Calendar Values, and Astrological Value based on the Week. In the 52 Weeks is 12 Months and the 12 Astrological signs. These are then associated with Birth Stones, Plants, etc.

There is Fortune, then there is Fate.

[Tokenista]

I just want to reiterate for everyone how easy it is to clone entire Blockchains.

I am not a Programmer, I started in a terminal to learn how to make a Genesis Block and that is what I did.

This is originally how I learned to make Blockchains years ago.

LEARNCOIN [LEARN] - The coin that helps you learn to make your own cryptocurrency!

Source: https://github.com/altcryptomining/learncoin
Windows Binaries: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8pm4vp60zwglt0/learncoinwin-latest.zip
Virustotal for windows binaries: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3dc907392d61cddad739818689d7f723cc84a67b65e66c033e5b9a9ad9b5e30b/analysis/1449455467/

2nd opinion: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/b7d8f52a5504414ed269b7259faba915c2345d5eaab727efc674525cfa94b8db/analysis/1449455160/

First Pool
Basic UNOMP - http://159.203.105.243

The coin that teaches you about creating your own cryptocurrency
I decided to create this coin for 2 reasons:
1. to show people how easy it is to create your own coin which can teach you a lot about command line interface, simple coding, git and just generally get into programming the easy way
2. to show people that they shouldn't necessarily buy into (or invest their mining power!) into any old coin that comes along, because as you'll see it's really not that hard, and why should you give money to some guy who spent like 4-5 hours doing some copying and pasting and tells you what he's "created" is the best coin there has ever been.

I don't expect this coin to be a huge hit, in fact it's probably full of bugs that will almost immediately break it if anyone starts mining.

What you will get out of this coin is the chance to follow along with me as I build the coin (I'm committing my whole day off today to doing this so I  hope you enjoy it)

Key Info / What you'll get:
A series of youtube videos that shows you every step of the way how to (poorly) "make" your own cryptocurrency.
A "dev" who wants to learn / be criticized along the way
A fair release. This is a scrypt coin and I've only got a single r9 280x so my premine will suck so ASICs feel free to jump on board. Who knows, it might even fork and I won't know how to fix it! How fun!
How I created the first pool which will be avaialble at launch (without a domain, because I'm too poor to buy one)

Coin Specs
Algo: Scrypt (cloned from Litecoin)
Block Reward: 50 LERNS
Block Time: 30s
Retarget: 5 minutes (10 blocks)
Total coins 84000000
Confirmations 20

Videos Below - note I just do one take on Open Broadcaster without any editing other than pausing the video to get a coke while shit compiles
(Just uploading to youtube now)

Episode 1:
Introduction / Explanations / OS Setup / Cloning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86jqAfySi64&list=PL3VHTMe_nFkyQKRus_py1WIRQr7FG2009

Episode 2
More cloning and generating merkle root
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaTmbh8Xuw&feature=youtu.be

Episode 3
Hashing the genesis block
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jp65Uq_U30&feature=youtu.be

Episode 4:
Creating some "artwork"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z_ONhDseVE&feature=youtu.be

Episode 5:
Compiling for Windows and uploading to github
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF3oE5uIP64&feature=youtu.be

Episode 6:
Seeing it all running and pool starting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPcmirqyOY&feature=youtu.be

Episode 7:
Profit???

This made it easier

Forknote (current core - Bytecoin 2.1.0)
http://forknote.net

Forknote is tool for creating or connecting to Cryptonote blockchains. It uses Bytecoin as base, and sticks to its codebase as close as possible.

Download
https://github.com/forknote/forknote/releases

Active networks
https://github.com/forknote/configs

Connect to existing blockchains

$ ./forknoted --config-file configs/imaginary_blockchain.conf
$ ./simplewallet --config-file configs/imaginary_blockchain.conf

Create new coins

Use our form to create a Cryptonote network a matter of seconds:
http://forknote.net/create/

Learn more in our guide:
http://forknote.net/guides/setup-private-blockchain/

List of all available parameters:
http://forknote.net/documentation/daemon/#blockchain-options

You can try it by downloading Forknote:
http://forknote.net/downloads


Bounties

Forknote GUI (50000 DSH): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1079306.msg23747414#msg23747414

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/forknote/


Support the project with BTC:
1M5ihpjUwQ86XWHGNVGGd3LgpJajpPJ6uR

or with DSH:

D6WLtrV1SBWV8HWQzQv8uuYuGy3uwZ8ah5iT5HovSqhTKMauquoTsKP8RBJzVqVesX87poYWQgkGWB4 NWHJ6Ravv93v4BaE

And Ethereum is even easier than that.

Also, for anyone who is interested in the Punic Wax Mystery:

I will be posting tons and tons if information on this, the post at the beginning of this thread is hardly what will be posted on the Subject.

Go to:
http://www.PunicWax.com

I have 84 more posts that will be going up there over a period of time, and many more will be added. The whole thing is basically a Thesis, or several Premises, and people may go get their PhDs using this information, and I hope they do because the research in this field needs to be expanded on.

We are creating an Alchemical Mystery School where by understanding certain things, you better understand several other certain things.

We will create a Initiation Mystery Ritual in which once you have completed a number of duties and tasks listed, you will be certified with a Megarian Degree, we are creating a Mystery School that is of the Stoic Philosophy, and African Mythological Mystery, guided by Hindu Shaivite Religion.

Once you become more capable in Crypto, you will be given various other Degrees and then will eventually start your own Central Regional Headquarters free from us having any role in creating or shareholding your Currency. This will be for local purposes, but in a Global Network.

[Tokenista]

I want to make these concepts completely clear for everyone, I have talked about the Earth Elements, the Gods, Human Nature and Debt, as well as several other subjects. This part will serve to completely wrap your mind around the concept from a Secular Financial Perspective.

Gold and Crypto

There have been 2 big events in American history involving Gold and U.S. Dollars, remember hearing about Ft. Knox? Ft. Knox used to be a big deal, because it proved the American Dollar was worth something, which was a model created by Andrew Jackson for our Treasury. Then Nixon intended to fix problems that had arisen, removed that Gold Standard holding up the Dollar, then was Impeached and Removed from office before fixing anything, and Presidents since then gave used our model, removing the Gold Standard and issuing pure Fiat Currency.

But, Gold works inversely to the Stock Market, so if you look at Dollars, Stocks and Gold.

We can see Dollars as Liquid, you pay me, I pay you, we can all pay each other in this Liquid.

Stocks are Speculative investments in prospective future Development, Progress, Innovation, Invention, etc. You either invest in companies like Lockheed Martin, or Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google if you like them, or find others that you think are up and coming. MP3s were big, then the iPod killed that, then Smart phones became a thing and everything is advanced, and we have new Technologies. But there will continue to be the next step, McDonalds did it in the 60s, Microsoft and Apple did it, Elon Musk invented PayPal then got a Government contract for electric cars, and now he launches rockets into space that can be reused. Invest where you think other peoples eyes are going next, because they can't invest in what they don't see.

Then there is Gold. Gold is steady, stays strong, never Collapses, and grows when the Stock Market takes a hit. Because if you sell you Gold in fear the price is going down, someone will buy it. And when your money is taking a hit in the stock market, Gold holds it steady, so as people move out of Stocks and into Gold, the price of Gold goes up.

Now with Crypto. If I have 1 Kilogram of Silver, about $500 worth or so, or however much Gold. I now go into some Altcoin, like say BLURT or STEEM, or HIVE, which are all fairly cheap and there are several others. But I go online and start telling people there is Silver for Sale, 200 BLURT per gram. Some people come get BLURT and join BLURT just because they heard that, and now you are getting pretty good amounts of BLURT in exchange for your Silver.

If someone had 10 Oz. Of Gold they could easily eat up a Ton of BLURT, locking it up and raising the Price of BLURT. And people come to BLURT to Buy Gold.

Now, say I want to Buy Herbs, and I have a Token like our PUCO Token. I say "Anyone who has Imphepho, or Balm of Gilead, you can send it to me for PUCO" now there is a Market.

Or if my Wife or I make Soap imbued with Magic Herbs or  Malas with Gemstones and Rudraksha beads, we can sell them and accept PUCO.

Or we go around and get Botanicas to start accepting PUCO, we will have Business cards for our Religious Products and Cryptocurrencies, and we will be using them for the trade of Religious Materials.

That is what the Earth Element talk, what you may have thought of as "mumbo jumbo" is all about.

The person on the left in this video is Brother Polight. Brother Polight is the head of an Organization called Nu-Covenant, which is a descendant of the Nuwapian Nation, a Religious Black Nationalist Society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8umSJkT3ro

In the Video he is talking to a Nu-Covenant Member who also works with Banks and Gold Mines, they talk about how Gold Trade and Silver Trade would work in an Economic Collapse situation, if Gold and Silver were our Currency again. They talk about how Gold has Market Value (called Spot) and Numismatic Value (Collectible, Sentimental or Historical Value).

They then discuss a Gold Mine owned by Nu-Covenant and how Gold can be stored, certificates can be taken out representing the Gold, and projects can be started by showing potential investors the Gold Certificates held.

[Tokenista]

And mentioning Loop Mining, it could also have a Future.

Right now there is a project with like RICH and the other Token is called SMART. But you Buy 1, and use it to mine the other, but the first 1 is only part released so now you have the option of selling what you just mined, or now staking and buying up everyone's then staking to mine the most in round 2.

SUN is being done in this model, there was Sowing Sun, and it is going on from there.

But, if you had a Dividend in there, it could last.

So, I release 10% of Dividend Stocks (Token A) for a new exchange in Smart Contract Token form. Now, that Token can be send and frozen in Token B's Contract to mine Token B.

Token B is not easy to mine, maybe even with higher rewards as more is staked, but diminishing returns. So it is like not sharpening a blade when chopping trees, the more you go, the harder it gets as it dulls; but this is more like 100 axes, added hour by hour, with there being a number of axes getting good returns and each getting less and less as the new ones are added. So as an investor puts more of their Token A into mining they get more back, but with a shrinking upward strength of hash per Token A added. Investors still get their dividend, if they own 10% of the 10% of Token A released, they continue to get 1% of exchange fees as they mine.

And 100 people could be sharing these Token As, but each Token A would be the same strength for everyone who stakes 1. But if someone stakes 2, they are 1.5x as stake weighted, then 3 staked gives them a 1.75 stake weight, etc. This gives scarcity, and buy incentive, and deters 51% takeover. Token A would be your choice to sell whatever % you want, but if someone takes 51% of Token B, it ruins Token B, and C. You should want no Token to have a 50% ownership by any individual unless it is Dead, or a Charity/Bounty Coin. It used to be if someone got 51% of a PoW or PoS Alt they wrote it an Obituary.

But people want to Buy your Token A from you both so

1. They can Mine Token B

2. They can get Dividends

Now, you can choose to sell more of your 90% of Token A, but you would not use it to mine Token B. The owner would want to let the investors mine Token B. You could also have Token B or C mine Token A; but then you do a B or C ICO type offering after the B mining, or you don't earn anymore yourself except your % fees as the creator, so Selling A and the rest being Investors would be best.

Now, having sold your 90% or just 50% of the total, maybe you have 30% left, whatever it is. You can now go start a new project.

And you can make it where Token B mines Token C, which could be anything. An upcoming game coin, a Dividend Stock Coin, Premine PoS on a new Blockchain, whatever Token C is, anyone holding Token B can get it.

And Token B could release 100 per year, over 20 years, so now your company has people there for 20 years earning.

And this could be the base for so much more for a company, but that is the kind of Loop Mining that could really be useful.

[Tokenista]

And part of what made STEEM successful was me being there, there is a Framework for how to make Currencies work, and you can see the Framework Modeled very well in DOGE.

DOGE was a Joke,
"Much Currency, Very Wow".

To understand how it happened, you have to understand where Crypto was as a Technology. When you join in Mining Today, if you want to mine Bitcoin Profitably you need to have a large Hash rate, you are competing with Mining Farms. Otherwise you have to Mine smaller Currencies with less competition so your Hash rate is competitive. When Bitcoin started you could use 1 Laptop, when it started it was just 2 people Mining, then they shared the Technology out and it became a Novel thing, not even a Video Game Gold, just a Wallet and a Hash rate, and the ability to send it to each other.

Then one guy, probably sitting at his Mom's house, had 10,000 BTC, worth nothing. And traded them for 2 Pizzas, that was the first trade ever. Soon after, it was on the Silk Road as the Currency and you could buy Counterfeit Money, and have Heroine delivered by the Mail man. Eventually they were about to add a Human Body Parts market selling Ears and Noses, etc, when the Government took Custody.

But,
While that was happening Litecoin was created, a new Algorithm, Scrypt. This happened because Butterfly Labs was creating ASICs which blew CPU (Computer/Laptop Mining), and GPU (Gaming Processors), out of the Water and no one could Mine Bitcoin anymore, so they switched to Litecoin. At first there was no way to use an ASIC for Scrypt, but someone figured it out and they made Feather Coin to make it easier than Litecoin.

This kept happening until they made the CryptoNite (like Superman) Algorithm, for CryptoNotes (like Monero).

But before that, after Feather Coin or around the same time, was DOGE, a Joke and a Coin with so many in a Block everyone had tons, so they made threads to hand it out saying "everyone post your wallet for Free DOGE", and that made everyone invested. This works well for Proof of Stake also, which is where STEEM comes in.

Steemit is Delegated Proof of Work and Staking, so the Bitcoin type Mining is Voted for, meaning all the nodes can be held open by Laptops, then everyone else earns by Proof of Stake and through Votes on the Platform.

So what we are seeing is Currencies that have not just the new Tech, but that put it to uses that are accepted by the general public in a way that then becomes what is called a Meme, that's the best word for it, I don't like the word Meme, as you could call anything a Meme that becomes a Cultural icon but here it fits because it's about Internet Gifs and Banners, etc, which stick in your head.

But there is an element further than that which can be seen in the early joke coin BBQ Coin, which did start being accepted at a few BBQ places and then we can see the same thing in Gold/Silver for Bitcoin, or what we are doing in Soap for Crypto, these are all more than a Meme and ground the Currency.

We will raise HIVE to new heights.

[Tokenista]

Light, Gravity and Time

[Tokenista]

In Jail, your Word is your Currency. Everyone in the Pod you are in will know if you keep your word, that's the Currency. Then Food, Court help and Contraband, etc.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

In Jail, your Word is your Currency. Everyone in the Pod you are in will know if you keep your word, that's the Currency. Then Food, Court help and Contraband, etc.

Actually, Ramen noodles and cigarettes (if they can be smuggled in if we're talking about US prisons) are the real currency.  An inmate's word is just a gauge of respect. 

Why on earth did you bump this thread, even if it's yours?

[Ucy]

I something realized that typical fiat currencies were probably created in place of trade by barter. Debt don't seem to be owned with real trade by barter. . You and your pairs exchange goods or services for another goods or services. With currency, what happens when no one is willing to provide you goods or services. You probably need to pay more to convince them, it becomes unfair deal or you are cheated on the deal.
We could have a currencies that gurantee that you'll get your goods or services at exactly the worth of your payment by having the payment locked to the specific goods and services they are tied to. That's probably what NFT may be very useful for in the future.

[Tokenista]

In Jail, your Word is your Currency. Everyone in the Pod you are in will know if you keep your word, that's the Currency. Then Food, Court help and Contraband, etc.

Actually, Ramen noodles and cigarettes (if they can be smuggled in if we're talking about US prisons) are the real currency.  An inmate's word is just a gauge of respect.  

Why on earth did you bump this thread, even if it's yours?

I mentioned Food and Contraband, word is first though. If I give you a Soup and you say you will get me back, and then you just eat it and treat me like it was a gift and I was just supposed to give it to you, other people probably won't let you get a Soup up front.

And everyone should think about all this.

There is also services, if you are a Service to everyone word spreads. When I was 18 they called me spiderman because I could move stuff at night between floors by climbing the window by the stairs in the Pod, so they called me spiderman.

Then I went back around 24 years old and everyone in the Jail knew who I was before they met me, like walked up knowing me, or came to the pod hoping I would be there, because I know the Law and was getting people out of Jail.

[Hydrogen]

Something that should begin to be acknowledged, Power does not wish to be held in one place.

"Power does not wish to be held in one place."

In physics, horror vacui, or plenism (/ˈpliːnɪzəm/), commonly stated as "nature abhors a vacuum", is a postulate attributed to Aristotle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_vacui_%28physics%29

....

Something that should begin to be acknowledged, Power does not wish to be held in one place. Currency is an Earth Current, similar to Electricity, or Water, but Currency is the Flow of Materials from the Earth. Currency is the Earth in motion. From the Human perspective, Currency is actually debt. If you work for $15.00 per hour, you are being promised that by putting your service to the use of the Brand, you will get $15.00 worth of service in return

Thermoeconomics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoeconomics

There's a branch called thermoeconomics which compares the flow of money to thermal energy. Some materials conduct or insulate heat producing different degrees of thermal efficiency. Financial and government institutions likewise conduct or insulate money efficiently or inefficiently in ways which can be clearly defined, analyzed and documented. It takes a certain amount of thermal energy to produce boiling water. Capital likewise requires a sufficient quantity to move markets and achieve goals.

The flow of money and efficiency of institutions could be completely scientized to produce transparency. Today's world isn't suited to it. People don't care enough about details for it to be a high priority. I wonder if that could ever change.

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There are some Currents moving around Dallas, TX that Science is only just beginning to understand.