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A currency organizes connections and interactions between groups of people into a kind of collective behavior which creates a kind of living social organism. The design of that currency (the rules about issuance, transaction, conversion/co-function, retirement/expiration, participant classes, governance, etc.) are the DNA of this social organism

DNA doesn’t tell us exactly what each individual biological critter will do, but it does define a particular range of possibilities and tendencies

"What would it take to make currencies as powerful for building and sharing wealth, as language is for building and sharing meaning?"  

The answer to that question, I believe, lies in discovering/inventing a set of composable abstractions for wealth building

Notice a pattern in each of these layers of composable abstractions: a set of fairly tight constraints allows the production of a huge number of "expressions."