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Re:How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency by KVFinn on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:25PM (#6948533)
>Well we could always make a new worthless currency. And set it so it intentionally inflates infinitely so that this can't happen. Zimbabwe-coin maybe.

Yeah that might work. If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly that would be even better though I can't imagine it being feasible.

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Re:How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency by knapp on Saturday December 21, 2013 @06:36PM (#6948566)
> If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly

Freicoin has a demurrage fee, based on the theories of Silvio Gesell:

http://freico.in/

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

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Re:How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency by edwardio on Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:27PM (#6948902)
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radioactive_isotopes_by..., californium-253 has a nice 17 day half-life. I propose we make this our new value of currency.
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Re:How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency by yesbabyyes on Saturday December 21, 2013 @07:04PM (#6948677)
That reminds me of a suggestion by Charles Eisenstein in his book Sacred Economics - decaying currency, along with zero or negative interest. It would be interesting to see such a "funcoin"! It might not even have to decay that fast to fend off speculators.
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