For anybody thinking my research and opinions are "topical" for the website, I believe that if redacted to the simplest "alternative" the monetary system might, as designed revert to the $42.22/troy ounce value described in the Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendments of 1976). Alternate currencies that wander even further from any factual basis, especially alternative currencies based in cyberspace transactions seem more absurd than fiat and expansion of fiat through hypothecation.