Getting paid in space

Problem with hydrogen. How do you move it about for transactions?
Plus fire it explodes. And with comets and other sources it is very
easily acquired.

Things like Gold do not have these problems.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Lucio de Souza Coelho"
wrote:
>
> On 8/16/06, harvey trevillion wrote:
> (...)
> > I favor using hydrogen as the basis of trade. It is useful and
use-able ... burn your money for fuel or water. Call the decimal
based currency 'tic's, of which, 100 make a 'luna'.
> > Harvey
> (...)
>
> No doubt there will be specific cases where hydrogen will be
directly
> exchanged by something else. However, historically general-use
> currencies have been backed by rare (and therefore precious)
> commodities like gold. There was never a case of some useful and
> use-able - though relatively abundant - commodity like, for
instance,
> oil being used for backing up currency.
>
> (Well, at least not directly. If all that talk about Iran using
Euros