[ballenf]

We have all kinds of currencies today -- gift cards, credit scores, loyalty points, forum reputation, follower counts, Pokemon/Magic cards, etc.

Some are easier to spend, but all can be traded for other goods even if they can't directly be used to pay your taxes.

[IAmBroom]

You are inventing a meaninglessly broad definition of currency.

Gift cards are a credit system (a proxy) for existing currency.

No one trades credit scores for goods.

The next three function are bribing a socially powerful person, because they don't work in reverse - Kim Kardashian is never going to do me a favor in exchange for mentioning her on my IG.

Trading cards are scarcity trading, not fungible proxies for wealth. I've gotten a reduction in price for an antique via a cold Coke, during a hot outdoor antique show, but that doesn't make cold pop cans currency - I wouldn't have gotten twice the discount for two of them.

[EGreg]

Wrote about it here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/local-community-currencies...

The key is to take all the gift cards and loyalty points and make them interoperable with each other. That’s part of our Intercoin project

[basch]

To the point where I'm approaching a need for a "mint for loyalty points" because of how in the dark they accumulate and expire. Where is my dashboard to track all points everywhere, (and trade, sell, exchange them, which I do know has been attempted before.)