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Is there any way to do anything with this right now? Is there anything you can buy or sell with it? Do I need real life friends to use this so I can set up "trust" as this will be a problem preventing me from even trying it out? (I have friends, just not ones that will try this)

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Sorry, there is nothing you can buy with Offset right now! Maybe I should set up some kind of a demo website so that people can try it out.

One thing you can do is open two Offset cards on your own mobile phone, and try to pay with one card to the other (:

Perhaps it needs a test net so you can try out buying imagineary things on a real network while not risking real currency.

I guess actually though, you could do this with the real thing, just use a TEST currency that has no value and let people sell imaginary things for that. Then random people would be happy to be lose this fake currncy for something they didn't know.

Surely if I install it and my friend installs it we can already use it to keep track of how much we owe each other.

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