Questions tagged [currency]
For questions that have to do with means of commercial exchange other than barter.
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Post-apocalypse currency
It is a post apocalyptic world, all government systems have broken down, approx 95% of the worlds population is gone and the few survivors left are beginning to trade with each other. I need a ...
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What form of currency to do transactions between us and droids?
Very soon I suspect we will see the rise of machine in the next couple of decades if people continue abusing Moore laws, suppose robot laws are hardwired into their core how can we make them believe ...
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Magic economy: Using mana as a standardized unit of currency?
I'm toying with the idea for a world where instead of minting coins out of valuable metals all countries us mana, the 'fuel' of magic, as a currency itself. Since mana always has value, in it's ...
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What are the Considerations of a currency backed by a Renewable Commodity?
This question is tangent of this one. While reading about the world-building that went into the Mistborn series I began to reassess my own world-building, specifically the effects of magic on the ...
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What if someplace used consumables for currency?
I just watched Rango, and I got curious of the realistic implications.
Let's set the stage.
Desert environment.
Realistic 21st century American tech, unlike the movie.
Some foreign country based on ...
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Could a society use bullets as money?
I'm making a world that is 1/3 medieval fantasy, 1/3 pre-civil war American west, and 1/3 Mad Max.
The world underwent an apocalyptic scenario that destroyed the governing bodies at the time, but it ...
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How can I make money work across separate planets?
Over time separate countries have adopted common currencies, and a world can be imagined where a planet has a single currency. However, in building a world spanning a multiplanet system (several ...
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Aftermath of a Midas-weapon war - what to do with all that gold?
After reading the question Are “Midas” swords useless for warfare? it really tricked my mind of finding ways on what to do will all that gold.
So I was wondering: assume a war broke out and you used ...
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Can I use mana as currency if people are constantly generating more mana?
I want to use mana, used to fuel spells, as a sort of currency. Basically you pay for items not with a fiat currency but with your mana, which someone may later use to cast a spell. I don't have a ...
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Interplanetary commerce: how do you compare currencies?
Considering that interplanetary trade will likely be limited because of cost of shipping vs product value, how would interplanetary money be valued against each other? I'm thinking more along the ...
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What can I do to make a Bartering system stable?
The Bartering system is a means of trading goods for other other goods, very similar to the Currency system except minus the money. The problem is that as the population of a location increases people ...
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What monetary policy tools are possible with virtual currency?
Given that the Fed buys and sells bonds on the open market, it's possible that the Fed (or equivalent) can surprise people with an average of $172 every few months in lieu of buying bonds on the open ...
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Despite slain monsters continually yielding gold coins, why does gold's trading value seem to remain constant over the years?
Set in fantasy medieval times, monsters can be seen loitering around the kingdom. People discovered that the slain carcasses of these monsters contain a certain quantity of gold coins. The rest is ...
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How do I safely sell off gold coins of unknown provenance?
Wow, of all the amazing luck! I just met a visitor from a magical world. He was able to use his magic to establish common communication, and after a bit of talk he decided he wanted to bring some ...
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Can coins be made out of concrete or cement?
Would it be possible to make coins from concrete with designs like the metal ones?
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How far back in time can I go before people stop accepting my money from the future?
Lets say I go back in time with a wallet full of, say, 150 dollars worth of bills. How far can I be sent back before I reach a point where I'm unlikely to be able to use my money because it looks too ...
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Deriving price from a framework of production in a medieval economy (ie "Can I have a 1,500 gold meat pie, please!")
It bothers me in games when the price of something is seemingly arbitrarily set.
Shop owner: How much gold do you have?
Player: Er, 10,000?
Shop owner: Then that meat pie is 1,500 gold, please!
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Creating a living currency
I'd like to implement a currency that is "alive".
Picture a small, rat-sized animal that is:
only found in a small geographic region, making it reasonably scarce.
lethargic, or in hibernation most ...
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Currencies when known encryption systems become obsolete
Current Bank security is based on encryption, once quantum computing or another system to break security is invented all banks are unable to securely transfer money digitally.
Assuming banks are ...
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Everyday life in a world and civilization which do not have any money in the economy ( and not barter too)
I was reading about non monetary economies and it says that it is a kind of economy that do not have any money in the economy and all goods and services are free to everyone according to Wikipedia.
I ...
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What is the currency in an emerging space economy? [closed]
With colony cities on the moon and merchant ships mining asteroids, humanity has begun to colonize the solar system. Most of these entities are self-governing and trading is a very important business ...
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Unified post apocalypse currency between multiple others
Next question of my post-apocalypse series of questions, started here: Which is about manufacturing of fuel
Joe and his group have after a couple of years build up a sizeable bio-fuel production, and ...
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Energy based economy
I am attempting to design an economy based around energy, namely, within a society possessing practical nuclear fusion. As I currently have it set up currency is backed by Hydrogen, meaning you could ...
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How would the economy of currency backed by electricity work?
Let us assume that a country on one of the moons of Mars uses this currency called 'Sol Credits'. And 1 Sol Credits is the price of 1 MWh of power. In other words, for every 1MWh of power that your ...
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Magic-Proofing Currency [duplicate]
I am currently developing a world with a hard magic system based entirely on manipulating the natural order of reality in accordance with physical possibility. As long as the ultimate end-state of a ...
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What are the social and economic implications of giving everyone $4.33 million?
This meme became infamous today due to its creator's apparent inability to do basic arithmetic:
But concerns about the current state of mathematics education aside, what if the US government ...
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