Quote from: bitsalame on April 07, 2013, 03:54:42 AM

Quote from: SuperZac on April 07, 2013, 03:29:58 AM

Quote from: bitsalame on April 07, 2013, 03:16:59 AM

Quote from: Charm Quark on April 07, 2013, 02:42:36 AM

tHave you been to 'The Road' lately?

What's that?

Drugs. Drugs as far as the eye can see.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)

Ah, I see. Well, what I meant is this.
For example, those growers sell hemp or whatever they are growing for bitcoins.
But they are forced to exchange bitcoins to fiat currency for their supplies to keep the production.

What I aspire is having an economy that is self-sufficient with bitcoins. So the farmer can go and get whatever they need in supplies also in bitcoins. And the supplier also get whatever he needs in bitcoins.
A full-fledged bitcoin economy.

And all starts with commodities.
Can we get a network of farmers and suppliers to accept bitcoins? We could start from somewhere.
I mean, now I have enough financial freedom to spend time on dreams like this.

The foundation would be
(1) food (not much going on)
(2) rent (ontario, NYC, somewhere-else-in-the-US-can't-remember, Germany)
(3) energy (not much going on)
(4) health services (dentist in Finland)
(5) salaries (archive.org, p2p foundation)
(6) entertainment (?)

There must be more examples I missed, and I am too busy to provide links ATM.
Some people claim it is a mistake to keep trying to form local economies based on currency that is inherently global and on-line; we should instead focus on on-line use cases. I disagree - I think we should focus on hot-spots (New Hampshire, Finland, Sweden) to try and reach critical mass of diverse offerings in the same place.