[faizshah]

I'm not a big fan of cryptocurrencies, especially the blockchain, but if they did one thing they started up the conversation in government of how distributed electronic currencies should be regulated. So I think more experimental things like what I described should show up in the near future. :)

One of my friends informed me that the idea of currencies backed by computing power has existed for a long time in science fiction so perhaps we'll see these specific kinds of systems soon.