Reputation, influence & attention are tradable tokens but not currencies


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I have been reading Peter Vander Auwera very good blogs on the future of money and alternative currencies  - http://petervan.wordpress.com/ with thinking from BitCoin, Caplinked to reputation, influence, and attention.


If money (a currency) is a token that must be .....

  • Memory of a previous exchange
  • Store of some value
  • Medium of exchange
  • Measure of value

Knowing that a currency (token) should be Durable, Transferrable, Exchangeable, Recognised, Divisible, Accessible, Standardised, Difficult to forge/ counterfeit, Valued, Available, cannot be Created by everyone; then reputation, influence, and attention cannot be a currency.....

Should your reputation, influence or attention be exchangeable for goods and services - probably, but how should they be valued?