[starkd]

Maybe for large significant transactions, but barter economy is next to impossible for consumer goods. If a lot of the economy goes off the books, it will come with greater friction between transactions, less overall liquidity.

[tomatocracy]

Fortunately though there are lots of substitute currency-like instruments out there. Prepaid debit cards, Amazon gift cards, etc. Or even foreign currency cash like US dollars.

[d110af5ccf]

you can "barter" with something like XMR though. that seems to be even lower friction than physical cash in some ways