[rdfweb-dev] foaf:beerTokens ...

[Jan Grant]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jim Ley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been thinking that one of the things the foaf universe lacks is a
> currency, if I want someone to do something for me, I have to use
> cajoling, and coercion, and can't offer anything but thanks in return,
> what we need is a currency that we can "pay" for stuff with.
>
> foaf:beerTokens are a possible solution to this, how this might be
> modeled still needs work, but this is one suggestion

Do you want your transactions to be public? Some variant of (the verging
on magical) electronic cash is much cuter.

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