This is the most honest thing anyone's said to me in weeks,…

This is the most honest thing anyone's said to me in weeks, and I respect it completely. You've said it better than I have. "An intranet, a closed loop, zipping sats around, not money yet." That's exactly it. We agree on everything except one word.
Yet.
You said all dominant currencies start as a small group exchanging among themselves. True. But here's the catch: lots of small closed loops start that way, and almost none of them become money. Loyalty points. Arcade tokens. Airline miles. Every one of them is a small group zipping value around inside a closed system. Starting as a closed loop doesn't make you a money-in-waiting. It just makes you a closed loop. The ones that broke out did it because outsiders chose to accept them. That's the step that turns "yet" into "now", and it's the step that hasn't happened here.
So I'd only ask: what's the thing that takes it from intranet to internet? From a loop we zip sats around in, to money a stranger takes? Because if the answer is "we wait", then "yet" is doing an awful lot of lifting.
And on building, genuinely, good on you for trying. I mean that.