That would make me sad because “coin as entity” is one of the primary differentiators of Safecoin, the property that makes it more like cash and less like a bank account. Whether this is an important property is a matter of another discussion but my personal opinion is that yes it is.
I surveyed the forum for proposals that used entity based coins with denominations:
- YASDI - Bitwise Denominations – prefix based binary division (@mav, May 2017)
- Yet Another Coin Idea – an overly complicated precursor of the above (@Tim87, Jan 2017)
- Yet Another Safecoin Divisibility idea (YASDI) - Network has a wallet - Decimal coins – decimal divisibility (@wes, April 2017)
- Safecoin divisibility - #304 by norimi – non-binary 1-2-5 denominations (@norimi, Dec 2017)
- Is quasi-infinite divisibility useful? – short and meta (@jlpell, Jan 2018)
- Safecoin Denominations – honorable mention as it doesn’t propose any solution just sets a direction (@betterthantrav, March 2015)
All in all, 2017 was a good year for coin denominations. Maybe it’s time to pick up pace again.
To maintain balance (such a clever pun!) here are two proposals that involve account balances: