Crypto and many kinds of trade will only free us up once we stop trying to give them a dollar value. But that ain't going to happen in our lifetime unless Russia is successful in unpegging oil prices from the USD. Then we'll have the option of switching to gold backed currency and not one that folks can print willy nilly. If MMT makes more inroads too, things will be better on that front.
I'm going to peg @lotuscoin to a corn backed Ruble/Yuan hybrid. Corn because its the biggest commodity out there and food prices are linked to oil prices (as my upcoming post on the food shortage will explain) and with oil on the way out and the false promise of biofuels on the way in, I reckon corn is the commodity to hold to. Ruble/Yuan because, while both Russia and China are expanding their global economic clout, China imports most of their food while Russia is pegged to be a net exporter once global weirding kicks in fully buy 2030 so China will import most of their wheat from Russia and will be most reliant on their services for food and fuel. I see a symbiotic Russia/China partnership taking over where the dying US empire once was effective. @lotuscoin will be the only one taking advantage of this scenario.