It’s still energy-into-money, but this crypto-currency lends itself to more thinking about proof-of-work. The proof-of-work (PoW) here with LiteCoin is based on sCrypt, which cannot be easily accelerated with farms of video-card GPUs. You can still make farms upon farms of ordinary CPU-based computers, but at least the difficulty is low enough that there will be more liquidity to the currency.
I’ll have more thoughts later on proof-of-work and alternative currencies.
Time as Money. 
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