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Things to consider: 1. Create lots of accounts, allocate money to yourself. 2. How do you hold people accountable in a distributed trustless manner? 3. Once you have centralized identity or accountability, then there is really no use to doing a blockchain. So solving 1 & 2 is the hard part of your idea. 4. Freicoin had demurge built in, you had to spend it or it would go down in value. This is anti-capitalist-- literally, they were marxists trying out their idea-- the consequence of this is that it undermines people's ability to save and invest for the future. If your coin goes down in value over a lifetime (Which you can accomplish easily by simply having increasing inflation over time-- very much like the USD) then it becomes difficult to save for retirement or that time of your life when your medical expenses go up.


I'm looking at the "accountability" part a little differently. It's not necessarily going to be some built in rules in the coin that hold people accountable. Instead one of the critical philosophies I've adopted is "enable the people who hold the coin". The coin won't hold people accountable, the tooling needs to be available to allow people to hold other people accountable.




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