If n log(n) allows us to value a network in terms of it's members, then we could, in theory use it to create a currency in networks where the relationship between network and dollars is unclear.
We'd probably need to make the currency redeemable for access to the network.
Anyway, by distributing currency at the value of the network we'd always have more currency than the floor created by the current membership, which means this would be available for capital. In turn, this would help drive network membership forward, as the network became more productive.
(Of course, if membership got smaller, we wouldn't distribute any new currency and destroy currency redeemed until we were back to the appropriate currency level.)
Now, in the free world, which we don't actually live in, people could then buy and sell the network currency with the world's more normal currencies, and thus we could arrive at the dollar figure for the network, which seems so important to various people.
Depending on what kind of network it was, people would start to wonder why they bothered with dollars anyway, which is why anyone really trying this would probably get thrown in jail long before it had a decent chance to work.
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