G$ is designed to gain usage and to be widely adopted as a means of exchange over time. Like Bitcoin, the initial dollar value, or “price”, of each G$ will be low – in the tenths of a cent on the dollar range to begin with. Our belief is that, because it offers free access to an instantly liquid, global basic income network, G$ will first be adopted in markets where smartphone-enabled populations currently live on less than US$10 a day. We believe that, for these populations, G$ could emerge as a useful complementary currency for use in peer-to-peer digital marketplaces as well as for on-the-ground goods and services, particularly as the network grows.