Virtual currency already has a learning curve that most people haven't gotten used to. Adding strange attractors into the mix certainly isn't going to help.
Virtual currency already has a learning curve that most people haven't gotten used to. Adding strange attractors into the mix certainly isn't going to help.
I don't know of anything else being proposed that works in a nonlinear way, and I don't know if the idea is even on the table as a possibility. I'm hoping that putting it on the table might give other people who can penetrate the complexity ideas for how to make the system work.
That said, I think the transaction types I list are fair intuitive. When I'm going to make a purchase, I have some options: I can pay a lump sum directly, or I can engage in an extended relationship of support, for which I can specify the duration of time, and the amount of support I'm willing to give it. There's different ways that support might work, but that's the gist.
However, I am quite confused about strangecoin. Maybe the whole thread is going over my head and I'm lacking an Explain-Like-I'm-Five description of your idea. I'd love to be a supporter, but I don't see how you can build a trust network around something as complicated as this. Could you explain how, even in a vague sense, strangecoin could act as a reputation system?
It seems like bitcoin itself works as a pretty great trust network. Just look at the mess surrounding MtGox: everybody seems to have a clear understanding that MtGox is totally culpable, despite the claims of transaction malleability attacks. Because the block-chain is entirely available for analysis, the financial activity of all organizations can be traced, which can reliably verify trust.
I mean: how many people recently came to crypto through the 'ridiculous' Dogecoin idea? What of the recent national cryptocoin (Auracoin, Spaicoin...) wave? And what about Vertcoin, Namecoin, Devcoin? These were once all thought experiments with "strange attractors". They now exist, and are bringing a LOT of interest and experience to cryptocurrency.