Hi LessWrong,

I’m a software architect from China (spent a decade at ByteDance/TikTok). For the last few years, I’ve been obsessed with a bug in our "social OS" that most economists seem to just accept as a feature: Money.

I’m not a professional economist. I’m a guy who builds systems. When I look at the Fiat vs. Gold/Bitcoin debate, I just see a massive engineering failure. One side has too much "human discretion" (inflation), the other is too rigid to scale for small, daily transactions.

I wrote a paper called "The Glass House" (just put it on SSRN) to try and solve this using an engineering mindset. I’m moving the goalpost from "is it logical?" to "how do we actually build the pipes?"

The part I think you guys might find interesting (or hate):

1. The "Stock Split" for Money: This is how I fix the "Small Change" problem. If the economy grows and gold becomes too expensive to buy a cup of coffee, we don't print more money. Instead, the protocol does a system-wide "Version-Iteration" (basically a 1:100 stock split). You don't lose value, you just get more granular units to spend. I’m curious if this can actually kill the "Menu Cost" problem people always complain about.
2. The "Glass Vault": I realized the "Oracle Problem" in crypto is real. How do you know the gold is actually there? I designed a physical vault that works like a public witness—a DNA-shaped structure where cameras/sensors can verify the physical gold 24/7 without trusting a single auditor.
3. Hyper-Sovereign Ledger: No lender of last resort. No "Policy." Just hard-coded redemption.

I’m posting here because I want a brutal Code Review. I don't care about academic politeness. I want to know if my logic on "Algorithmic Re-denomination" is broken. In software, we love it when someone finds a bug before it goes to production.

If you have some time to kill and want to look at a weird engineering take on monetary theory, here is the SSRN link: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5540239

I’ll be in the comments to defend my "code." 

Best,
Xuebin (treagzhao)