The Internet CAN be controlled at a massive scale, as the Chinese Govmt. shows every day.

In a way, I believe that the value of money is based on the value of time/effort that it effectively replaces by allowing people to no longer barter. Like you say, getting from a telescope to a fish may be very difficult with barter, so the value of a medium of exchange arises simply because someone prefers to do something else with their time besides barter.

any way my ideas are based on respect, … I just believe and always have believed money must carry the “promise” pledge” “honor” and truth…of the “transaction between two humans”  and the promise carry s the integrity of the transaction… human actions… see respect is all bout decisions, ( you decide then you act)  In RESPECT… you sacrifice your decision to another, ( he gets to decide for you)  (he… well you both decide)  this process is a “transaction” and above all it must be free from (force and fraud)  it (the action) must have TRUST as its most important aspect… BTC has this in abundance…at least that is the way i see it.

 see  mutual respect  and decisions are all about human actions… there can be no transaction without respect (trust)  and money must inculcate the respect  (trust) of the transaction… as you say…moeny must hold its value,

and for me BTC does this perfectly, even to a mathematical certainty.  BTC is/as you said well be the most important thing to happen in “history” and  is  the “truth” … so finally BTC gives us, an honest, and truthful system of exchange to base our decisions-actions- transactions … a system that has engineered “trust & mathematical truths” into the the very essence of the transaction… I love it.

BTC with all its inherent “mathematical values can /will …monetize the Global -  information on the web, ” Global – a tip jar economy” it is a beautiful thing to contemplate…

I might be nuts but I also see BTC as a debt free exchange… the opposite to fiat $. I see BTC as the way out of this fiat crisis … and the world will see it too as soon as it can comprehend it.

anyway you exactly right, this time…  is a here is a little pun, to ponder…

the BTC is a “perfect” good.  Good in all respects.

Simplify.

People – your average Joe Blow – are not largely not going to be aware of basic economics and what makes a good money. They are simply going to look for something to facilitate their exchanges, and choose whatever they deem best. For MOST people, that is simply going to be “what everyone else I know uses.” 

Hence it is quite possible for Bitcoin to “bootstrap” itself into monetary status. As soon as we have a community – of any size worthy of the name “community” – using bitcoins as money, the cat is out of the bag: there is now a de facto money being used in the world that is superior to all other forms of money, including gold. The laws of economics dictate that that money will tend to gain universal acceptance. 

By the way, if Bitcoin does catch on, the world will change in ways we cannot possibly imagine, but almost certainly for the better.