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Not overly knowledgeable on Swedish law, but the idea that a public sector union can decide to block public services (in this case postal delivery of license plates) for a single company as a sympathy strike seems pretty nuts to me. Pretty sure Sweden would lose in European court at least (of course it would probably take a long time to percolate there).

Cool stuff! This seems to effectively be a digital, distributed, implementation of a LETS[1], a system which has had some popularity in various places at various point of the last 40 years.

This sort of system is particularly useful in communities where there is a lack of money. For instance say everybody is unemployed and nobody as money to buy anything, but people would be happy to trade services/goods with each other if there was a way to do it efficiently. They could barter but that is inefficient and it is difficult to match services/goods of different value.

Because the system allows monetary creation, it enables people to start trading even when nobody has money.

It may be useful to check out the circumstances in which LETS were/are used, as it may be a good indication as to which types of community may be most interested in using Offset.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system

Yes, instead a solution would be:

  encryptionKey = hash(salt + key)
  dictionaryKey = hash(encryptionKey)

I am a professional and I do not choose my tools based on the job.

I choose the best tools for me, invest a lot of time in getting better at them, and choose jobs I can do with minimal changes to my toolset.

To expand your analogy, if I have spent the last few years of my life getting better at driving bulldozers, I will not take any job requiring me to get into a racecar.