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Bitcoin

And every appearance sent a tiny fraction of a penny winging back up the Scoochi tree of creation. For once, Tim didn’t mind the rip-off. The Scooch-a-mout affiliance was as broad as any. Even hardware illegals at the edge of the world would benefit from the royalties.

Vernor Vinge • Rainbows End

Belonging. The token makes me part of a group of 666 founding members that assigned the same value to the project / were willing to pay the same amount for getting involved.

Severin Matusek • A Theory of Value

follow the money

Natalie Audelo • 1 card

money

Nikita

Right now, on TikTok, if you aren’t following someone, a little red + appears overlapping their icon. To follow them, you click that +, and when you do, it disappears. What if, instead, it were replaced by a TikTok Coin icon. Maybe every user gets 7 of these to doll out per week. And, of course, once you’ve used them all, it grays itself out, and, ... See more

Hank Green • Letting Users Decide Who Gets Paid

collector club

when there is a mixture of 'good' coins with high silver content and 'bad' coins that have been clipped or debased circulating, the public will hoard the valuable good ones and pass on the bad ones to others.

Michael Green • In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty (Kindle Single)

third millennium BC. This was the silver shekel. The silver shekel was not a coin, but rather 8.33 grams of silver. When Hammurabi’s Code declared that a superior man who killed a slave woman must pay her owner twenty silver shekels, it meant that he had to pay 166 grams of silver, not twenty coins.