Re: Extropian currency (was Hole in a box)

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 12:40:30 MST


Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > > The breakpoint is at x=3.13e39 bit/kg, I guess around degenerate matter.
> > >
> > > So it seems that we would expect that hot or high-density civilizations
> > > would want to gather as much matter as possible for storage, while cool
> > > civilizations with lower memory density would rather burn their matter
> > > to power their computers. So given these assumptions the really advanced
> > > civilisations using nuclear storage would likely want to imitate cosmic
> > > dark matter... Anders Sandberg
> >
> > Honest to god, Anders! If Extropia minted its own money,
> > we would put you on the 20 dollar bill.
> > spike
>
> You mean the 20-kilojoule note, right? Surely Extropia wouldn't
> use a floating fiat currency...

Sure it would... issued by the First Virtual Reserve Bank.



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