bkmk
Governments hate the barter system because it is very hard to tax.
So expect government interference at every turn.
The ultimate barter - gold coins, silver coins, whiskey, cigarettes, tools, etc.
“The system equates one tradepoint to one euro, and lets users barter directly or rack up the digital currency...”
Sounds more like a replacement for the Euro. While we preppers like to fantasize about a barter economy, the reality of it is very unlikely to take place. For example, if I have extra toilet paper, but want (or need, whatever) cigarettes - am I going to go door-to-door in my neighborhood trying to find someone that both needs toilet paper and has cigarettes to spare. Sure those people exist, somewhere, and hopefully they’re home when I ring their doorbell. There’s a reason that currencies have been around for thousands of years and will be around for thousands of years into the future.
Bottom line - have cash around, even if you have goods to barter. Better yet, have gold and silver around too. But don’t expect to feed your family very effectively by trying to find people that will barter rice and meat for your extra Size 9.5 shoes...they’re just not that easy to find.
Coffee
Ammunition (9mm .223)
bottled water
silver coins
I’ll likely be dead in 25 years.
That’s why the Christian remnant needs to stick together and barter AND avoid the chip.
Booze, cigarettes and sex work the best, LOL!
(Not that I’d know ANYTHING about that!)
I will share that when I was Section Sergeant back in the day, I kept a footlocker filled with things my guys were not supposed to have; girly & car magazines, candy, snacks, etc. I also made sure they ALWAYS had hot water for shaving and showers when we were in the field.
I never dug a foxhole after that, LOL! A little bit of forbidden fruit goes a LONG way! ;)
Sounds like an opportunity for an entrepreneur to start an exchange mechanism NOW for the internet, with off-line back ups if internet is gone.
tradepoint = bitcoin?