This is way cool and very philosophical project. Your causing potential legal trouble for yourself by calling it currency. Just call it a gift certificate. That's essentially what it is but of course times 100 for the awesomeness of it. So much of the world around us for example electronics, combustion engines, construction, we don't understand, therefore it is very costly to us. Your goat notes are so close to giving people knowledge about electronics. We understood the world around us, how to build and modify it, design it, we would be less dependent on the knowledge and power of society, on having to pay people to produce goods and provide us services if we could do those things ourselves. At this point in history, with the knowledge on the Internet, 3d printers, availability of cheap raw materials, we are almost to a paradigm shift. Whereas manufacturing long ago replaced the artisan, it is almost developed now to a point where every individual can be an artisan manufacture, what with 3-D printers, cheap or free computer design software, etc.

I don't believe there is an impending economic collapse, and impending sudden running out of petroleum fuel, and impending death of the world by pollution, massive famine from overpopulation, etc. The reason being that as these issues arise, society will adapt. However it will not address those problems until it 'needs to. Once fixing those problems makes sense economically, those problems will be addressed, for instance increasing cost of petroleum fuel will lead to the increasing production of alternative fuel vehicles. Nature, not exluding human society, has a remarkable way of self-buffering to maintain homeostasis.

These goat notes would be more valuable if people realized how useful they were. If you had a youtube channel showing all the things that could be made from a goat note.

I dont know as I agree with even needing to make them hard to counterfeit. There are many electronics components made by different companies and those in the know are willing to pat the 10-20 percent more to buy them from a trusted source rather then a Chinese countefeit of unknown quality. This is good technology. Let it spread. Also let counterfeiting inspire to make an even better, more useful goat note. People feel the need to patent their ideas, perhaps instead a need could be felt to have more good ideas.

Also I have some experience with small scale agriculture. There seem to be extremes between large scale agriculture with its machine, tractors, technology, etc, able to pay migrant workers 10-20 thousand dollars per year to help with planting and harvesting. And then on then on the other extreme, small organic farms either unable to afford or rejecting mechanized farming, the result being that they have to work full time, unable to pay their workforce at all, depending on wealthy/organic minded individuals who are willing to pay retail price as part of a CSA, community supported agriculture, what this means is that on a weekly basis they receive a box of random vegetables.

Again, organic low impact agriculture would be more succesfulyl if it were economically competitive. The problem is commercial organic farming is very little different, having many of the same problems as conventional commercial farming.

I envision a future in which there are super markets, not supermarkets. Where the families are the companies, and the mariages are the mergers. Imagine an oganic farmers market, but thanks to the aid of small tractors the farmers are able to sell crops competitively. Combine this with resurgence of artisans as 'artisan manufacturers' and there's no reason why every individual or family couldnt be their own 'mini walmart' of sorts.

One day I would like to change the game, to have a warehouse, to have land. The perimeter of the warehouse will be divided up into cubbies like a beehive. The people that have a cubby ae the famers, the producers, the worker bees. Their cubby is their sanctuary and nobody needs to do 'errands', because what isn't produced onsite is delivered in a bulk order through online ordering. It is such a shame, these masses of individuals behaving as vehicles doing errands, focusing on a shopping list rather than greeting each other, ignoring when they could be uplifting, seeing how they might be on similar paths, have similar goals. When people come together, cross paths, let it be a meeting, a celebration, an appreciation. Let people share knowledge so the world runs more efficiently, at a more relaxed. Saying money is time is time is money. Trading I will pay you laters for I will give you nows.

Instead of going to a store you just go to the warehouse, pick up your order amongst a community you know and trust, use your cubby space as a workspace/sanctuary/however you see fit, then go pick your fresh fruits and vegetables. A totally different type of agriculture where small plots of family vegetables live together and interbreed, no need to weed or till, just to cover crop with short clover and add compost/manure from the dead plants dairy cows, plants pollinated by bees, minimal human intervention except to help express/ plant the seeds of the diverse organisms that nature expresses, the five fingered ears of corn, the peppers within peppers, the oddly shaped tomatoes, letting nature be the biological engineer but speeding along the process. Of course a perimeter of orchard, the fallen limbs fueling efficient rocket mass heaters. Okay, Im trailing off but at least to a happy place. I share my vision with you because I imagine you may have a similar one, and I see you have skills, therefore I see you as a key player in the shared vision which I think is the vision the world/human society has for itself underneath of it's pettiness/worry/doubt. Prosper Goat note man. Profit prophet.