Ah, I see now. Hm, it would be interesting to study other successful moneys in history to find more about that correlation. Well, there's nothing better than starting out with the Rai Stones lol. 

Would you like to get any updates if I find some data related to your correlation with a possible consequent utility of money?

arataa

You sound like the people who think proof of work should do useful work. The work has to be useless, and the data has to be exclusively monetary.

fourrules

bitcoin

Gold was used for persistent data storage too

SimpleStacker

It is part of the `op_return` drama, but maybe just a new perspective on it.

> The sole purpose of money is to be a highly salable intermediary good to solve the problem of batter, and prove that you have generated value in order to exchange in a society. Thus, the ideal money should just be money and nothing else, according to what I have read.

I think the insight I am coming to is that maybe anything that is *good money* might necessarily be *good data storage* as well... especially the characteristics of verifiability and persistence