You may place too much value in the transactions of fiat currency. You can still do an in-person trade. Credit payments may seem instantaneous but they are not

You may place too much value in the transactions of fiat currency. You can still do an in-person trade. Credit payments may seem instantaneous but they are not. Research the gold standard and who actually stores the gold not the paper receipts for it. The endgame for bitcoin...Transaction fees? Popup currencies ala private currency? I hope we are solving some fun math problems with all this distributed hash power.