Whilst thinking about the Bit-Groat, I came up with something less stupid.

1 bit-goat gets you a goat. 2 bit-goats, male and female is a better investment progeny-wise.

None of this blocky-chainy nonsense, and unlike bit-coins, you can eat them.
-- not_morrison_rm, Mar 15 2017

I think we should all revert to a straight barter system. The Inland Revenue might be less avid in pursuing people if they were likely to be sent 23.8 wicker baskets or 7.2 cows in payment.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 15 2017


How do you pay in 0.2 of a cow ? Banks really don't like dealing in fiddling small change ....
-- 8th of 7, Mar 15 2017


I think they'd adapt.

I'd like to see a big box store where people come in the door with livestock and leave with refrigerators and bigscreen TV's.

Also, getting calls from a collection agency, demanding the chicken you owe them, would be less of a nuisance.

Re: idea, remote livestock ownership is a thing - how does this differ ?
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 15 2017


Shopkeeper: "Have you got anything smaller?"

Customer: "How about this cat?"
-- Wrongfellow, Mar 15 2017


So, a currency that you could deploy in Goat Simulator?
-- normzone, Mar 15 2017


Just last week I visited a friend who used to have a goat, and we fondly discussed our memories of it. It used to eat their laundry. Just so you know the drawbacks.
-- pashute, Mar 15 2017


// It used to eat their laundry. //

Was it supposed to eat the laundry ?

Presumably the goat wasn't called "Hotpoint" or "Whirlpool" ?

Using domestic and domesticated animals has been used as a currency or measure of wealth by many of your planet's cultures for millennia - tribes like the Masai judge status by cattle ownership, and some Arabian groups use camels (the horrible, disgusting, foul-smelling, bad-tempered ugly nuisance, not the brand of cigarette).

In wales, sheep use the welsh as currency.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 15 2017



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