[adrianwaj]

how are you going to get people to use bitcoin2? I've thought about it.. unless you're the founder, there's no straight answer (and even if you are the founder, you'll end up with little incentive by the time you can convince people to)

[tzs]

It depends on who you are. If you are a government, for example, you can allow people to use bitcoin2 to pay taxes, and you can use it to pay government contractors.

I suspect some large companies could also do something like this. Amazon or Walmart, for instance. They could give discounts to people who use a digital currency they are trying to push, and that could be enough to bootstrap things.

[adrianwaj]

I had those same thoughts when bitcoin first came out (or rather hit mainstream) and put them on my Bitrific blog, which I subsequently shut down.

A new government backed currency being disconnected from paper is one thing, but being disconnected from fractional reserve banking is another and likely to be met with very violent opposition if a target can be found.

There'd a have to be a total change in government policy for a modern day digital Lincoln greenback. I don't think the Corporatocracy would allow it to happen at this point. So bitcoin is the closest we can get to it - money for the people by the people (instead of money for the corporations by the banks with the help of government.)