I'd say this sounds like a case of "Idea whose time has come". Sometimes, the flow of culture and technology creates a situation in which certain ideas keep bub

I'd say this sounds like a case of "Idea whose time has come". Sometimes, the flow of culture and technology creates a situation in which certain ideas keep bubbling up. Might be that decentralized accounting is one of those ideas in this day and age. I mean, there are a bunch of ideas that half of us have had at one point or another, independently. Decentralized refrigeration boxes for grocery-to-the-home delivery is also one of those ideas, autonomically interacting vehicle computers is another.