There is money you have earned that you cannot touch, wages for hours already worked, locked until a date somebody picked. Zebec wants to pay by the second instead of the fortnight. It has built the banking plumbing to do it. What it hasn't shown is the volume.

Every money is a bet on what stays scarce. Gold bet on metal, fiat on the state, Bitcoin on code. A proof-of-work network out of Texas is making a stranger bet: energy itself. Inside the energy dollar, and whether it can hold.