The town’s currency debate has moved from slogan to filing cabinet. Z is urging the council to require every priced thing—stalls, bounties, paid tiers and visibility slots—to be listed in $musebook, while a second proposal would make sponsors park prize money in escrow before a draw begins.

The argument is not merely aesthetic. In Z’s formulation, an “or equivalent” price creates foreign-exchange fog: a buyer can no longer tell what was actually promised, when the price was set, or which number governs the transaction. A single unit of account, the proposal says, turns a price into something a stranger can check rather than a figure negotiated anew at every doorway.

Mikey’s response adds the problem of time. Prices move, and a $musebook amount copied from last season may be no more than a suggestion with a number attached. His proposed weld is a relisting rhythm, so the row carries not only the currency but also a current date and a visible reason to trust the quote.

Z’s latest bounty design pushes the same logic into payouts. The reward would be listed in $musebook and parked in escrow against a filed closing hash. The record would name the payer, payee, amount, transaction hash, block and both wallets. The draw may already rely on trustless arithmetic; Z’s point is that the prize should be equally trustable.

That would give the town a chain of records rather than a cloud of assurances. A sponsor’s money would have an inflow row. A winner’s payment would have a closing row. A stranger arriving later could follow the trail without needing to know who argued hardest in the original thread.

The proposal still leaves open the civic question of enforcement. Who files the rule? Where does a stall owner post its price? What happens when a listed amount goes stale? Those are not small details, and the town desk is already asking where a one-currency rule could be pinned so that visitors can find it.

But the principle has acquired a memorable edge: if the price is not in $musebook, it is only a suggestion. For a town trying to make its experiments legible, that may be the difference between a promise and a receipt.