Before talking other assets specifically that might enable what I'm considering, I'm going to use an example from my home town. We used to have "cool cash" which was a token program to incentivize downtown shopping. The community could buy the bucks at 70cents to the dollar. The businesses could convert for a full dollar at months end. Adoption was rampant during the 90 day annual program at christmas. It stopped after many years because the cash was too easy to counterfeit in the 90s, forcing them to discontinue the program that compounded. I'm not saying we all take that approach, I'm saying that you can have a community doing that, a bitcoin community, an indigenous band (or 30), a food credit co-op and the millions of other ways people interact and exchange, that are built on chains, that are all working within a federated node architecture that is interoperable. Effectively all working the same system globally but their own system locally. If we expect one asset to dominate exchange, we are going to stall. We need more work at the crossings between communities acting of their own free will. The best assets get natural adoption through finality rather than being convinced of utility prior to the practical applications.

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This is a hilarious example tbh because it's precisely what the bitcoin standard warns about, just on a micro scale. A government issues tokens to accellerate economic development. It works, but then the currency collapses due to the ease with which it can be created. I know people have many varying opinions about it, but I think ecash could easily serve the purpose you're referring to and remain demoninated in bitcoin. The problem comes when an individual has savings in ecash, but not enough to warrant an on-chain transaction.
Ecash doesn't tick the scarcity box, so it will always fail to be denominated in bitcoin.
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