One of the primary benefits of money is that you don't have to know your customer. Money's secret sauce: anonymity at scale. No customer dossiers needed. Pre-coin era? Trade jerky for future grain, stare into their soul, gauge if they'll ghost you when blight hits. (Spoiler: they might.) With money, all this disappears. Meat<->money, exchanging names and life stories becomes an optional pleasantry. Now compare with current KYC-madness.

Seeing a lot of MeshCore discourse lately. Been running mesh for a while now: Don't be religious, use whatever works where you live. Give nodes into the hands of whoever you'd want to reach when the infrastructure goes dark. Just spend some time and money onboarding people. And hope it will be just a fun project that you'll never need.