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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1064449, member: 57463&quot;]Gold-pressed latinum discussed here:</p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t131714/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t131714/">http://www.cointalk.com/t131714/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is whimsical, of course, and I enjoy that.&nbsp; On a deeper level, you have to ask what forms money will take in the future.&nbsp; A mere hundred years ago, money was precious metal (or paper promises for it).&nbsp; Today, only 8% of our economy is in cash, and the money we do carry is tokenized, an abstraction with no significant material value.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The equivalence of matter and energy is not just relativity or quantum mechanics:&nbsp; it takes fuel to lift paper into orbit, abouit $10 per gram (about $4000 per pound: <a href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=301" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=301" rel="nofollow">see here</a>).&nbsp; And once in orbit, it takes fuel to move it around. </p><p><br /></p><p>On the one hand, that makes physical money prohibitive, but also gives serious value to anything you do bring off the Earth, such as mementos of history.&nbsp; Every astronaut to the ISS can bring an important (small; lightweight) object to place at their non-religious &quot;shrine&quot; or memorial cranny.&nbsp; Imagine 100 years from now, how a second-generation asteroid miner would perceive a Lincoln cent or a euro.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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