In the last year or so, I have made more progress with getting practical projects going than in the previous five.

Basically people are running out of conventional options, so it's a variation of Sherlock Holmes' dictum that if you eliminate the impossible, that leaves only the highly improbable.

In particular, I have got several excellent connections and opportunities/projects in the US, and am planning a trip (as yet unfunded) around a speaking engagement in Philadelphia at the end of April.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson

The merchants on the Washington side have special incentives for P2P arrangements, notably the lack of sales tax in Oregon and the presence of the B&O tax in Washington.  Getting over these hurdles is a losing proposition if all you use are the tools on the table, which is why just about everyone uses P2P and other under-the-table tools to some extent.  And "under the table" is exactly how the taxing authorities (which can do something about it directly) and the banks (which can get others to do something about it) view these arrangements.  They aren't getting theirs, so the crushing must commence at once.  Which is what really has to be overcome to make this work.