> If the courts are not there to enforce ownership, the currencies will never take hold. That's probably solvable. Another problem, which I don't know how to

> If the courts are not there to enforce ownership, the currencies will never take hold. That's probably solvable. Another problem, which I don't know how to solve, is that the US govt doesn't agree with the idea that transactions in other currencies are not taxable. If you're trading favors, the govt wants its cut. You can argue that your expenses equal your revenues, so there's no profit, but they're pretty good at dealing with that dodge. (If you're consuming anything, they'll see its cost as profit, even if you acquired it with clams.)