I propose we try a little experiment with QuarkBar. Right now we have a very tiny community (just ~20MH/s on the p2pool I am active on) and absolutely no outbound interest. This is kind of lucky if we wanted to try the following:
As the value of fiat is not as stable as people imagine it to be the translation into fiat is only virtually stable (preaching to the converted here, I know). If we let go of fiat as a general translation value in the back of our heads for goods and services we end up with a coin that is decoupled from the movements of fiat completely and is not prone to any speculation. We as the small (read: tiny) community could determine exchange value. So my proposal is a small marketplace that does not have any fiat or Bitcoin affiliation whatsoever.
If I am not completely mistaken this should eventually raise QBs value on external exchanges if the marketplace is attractive enough. Or not...
I for one would have a metric fuckton of hardware and finest herbs (not those, all legal) that I would love to trade for QuarkBar. I am talking about a *lot* of best products.
Does this sound like the ramblings of an economically uneducated freak? Please do tell me so, I am here to learn.
I think it will be linked to money, when you start trading it for specific goods. Maybe it would be good to have a marketplace for services (like fiverr.com), where you can only pay with Quarkbar. Services are harder to put value on.
Another option would be to get Quarkbar as a supplementary coin to other coins. It could be an escrow currency that you send beforehand as a deposit for example.