That’s not it.

Our currency is INFORMATION-BASED.

This is an inevitability when a species has been mining asteroids for millennia and gold loses its luster.

So, for your global currency to not be linked with another’s you have to come up with major things like this on your own.

Also, to be quite frank, if you can jump straight to something like this on your own, you’ll not only save yourselves an economic crisis usually reserved for advanced species, but… you could also financially harm those betting against you in other ways.

This might force greater channels of communication to open on the part of those seeking to save their personal wealth as well as from those seeking to proactively expand it via your new endeavors.

It might be a better strategy to get those likened unto me quarreling with each other than to allow the same old exploitation to continue.

Dealing with advanced beings who’ve put their trust in technological methods requires the “David 🆚 Goliath” approach.

Or, in other words, the completely unexpected and unthinkable.

It also doesn’t hurt to think that you might be giving God a good belly laugh in the process.

Word has it that he often roots for the underdog in conflicts such as this.