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Regarding alternative forms of currencies, have a look at this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)

This approach tries to avoid hoarding of money by decreasing the value of hoarded money. The concept is part of the idea called "Freiwirtschaft" (German, literally translated Free economy): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiwirtschaft



Built-in demurrage has been tried with Freicoin, which has been around [0] since 2013:

http://freico.in

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/freicoin/markets/

[0] For the loosest definition of "been around" -- I assume its blockchain still exists somewhere, but their own website links to an explorer that apparently doesn't exist. And their Github repo hasn't been updated for ~18 months: https://github.com/freicoin/freicoin/commits/master


Perhaps people were not spending it, so over time, its value dropped all the way to zero? :)




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