Which box do you pick? And why?
I ignore the thought experiment and work on something at hand. Launching www.printyourownmoney.com in a few days. The technology that makes digital cash possible is also useful for many other things. I realize there's a place for arguing whether "digital money" can work today, tomorrow, or in two hundred years. But Cypherpunks have already spent more than a decade talking about it. Why not try it for a while, to see if it works? It's not so hard. It doesn't take a billion dollars, or a million, or a hundred thousand. Apparently it takes one engineer, without venture capital, a couple of months. The Lucrative source is MIT X license - basically don't blame me for using it, but do whatever you like. Lucrative has an open API - you could ignore the code and use the API. Or you could ignore both and build your own. Or you could hire me - I'm jobless - to do it for you. Patrick http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/