I don't see the direct connection sorry. With currency, gold, etc, it can be stolen or controlled in ways a blockchain currency cannot.
I was merely talking about replacing proof of work with a human step rather than something computed. Intellectual labour (such as to plug our gaps in AI) moreso than physical. Answer a quiz when you buy a coffee or sit there for a few hours to mine coins while analysing a corpus. Something like that.
I saw that some exist, I don't know how relevant they are.
Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches
by literallycancer on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:27AM
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Why would anyone use such a system? For poor people the motivation is clear. However, who's going to contribute the resources required to make it run, if the whole point of the system is to disadvantage those with the resources?
Obviously there is no nation that backs its currency value for an objectively "good" common cause - every nation probably only thinks within her interest for most of the time. If you want to create such an institution which can print money backed by the values you like - then the answer is much more political than technical, and the crypto algorithms alone wouldn't help you in achieving that.