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Old December 27th, 2018 #16
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Here is a question for those that self identify as sci-fi sexual:

What was the "money" used by the space travelers in Star Trek, Lost in Space, and Star Wars?

When a space person wanted to by some zero gravity tampons at the commissary, what currency did he/she use?

If and when a space colony is formed, what would be the currency? Would the space colonist start mining precious metals on their new planet once they landed, or would the go directly to crypto currency?

Forming space colonies would mean that that there had been some technology developed to extract energy from nature very easily, so having the energy to mine crypto-coins would be a non-issue. Or maybe it would, since computing system powered by such an energy source would be able to break all existing crypto algorithms and key lengths within short periods of time. This means the crypto algorithms would have to be vastly more sophisticated and/or the keys vastly longer.

The real question is, if humans had to start a civilization from scratch, but had computing machines, would they start mining for precious metals or go crypto?

[This post is more of a thought experiment, and not a promotion of space travel and space colonies.]