If I try to bribe someone with 2000 square miles of African savannah instead of a big pile of cash, the edges of the transaction would still be booked even without a standard link between them. In the case of land, deeds would be registered.
You could only bribe people by buying things and loaning them permanently. This would work, up to a point, but it's much more precarious and public than anything we have today.
But let's not get caught up in finding all the comparisons with our current models that 'prove' why transparency couldn't work. That is the easy bit. You can't be me, I'm taken
But I work in a business that involves accumulative what-if brainstorming that only stops when everyone is quite clear that we have gone too far. On the road to madness, however, the process usually throws out some useful ideas that could not be reached any other way.
Sorry if I appeared to be attacking.... You can't be me, I'm taken
was just trying to tease more detail out of you. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
