This is where the “joke” part of EGX shades suddenly and alarmingly over into the increasingly and unexpectedly “serious thought-experiment” part.

I agree that the lack of heritability would lead to it being assessed as worthless by countries.

I also agree that all living humans may always have had 1 EGX realised retroactively, and that EGX was more discovered than invented. Somewhere in the back of my mind when I wrote the spec was something, still not entirely coherent in my mind, to do with all human lives being a) equally valuable and b) infinitely more valuable than any non-human entity, including and especially things like corporations or states. Hence the minting rule and Cost of Receipt rule – 1 EGX per human, no more, no less, at all times.

This could be restated as ‘the value of 1 EGX is the same as the value of one human life.’

And as we agreed above, this is agreed to be assessed at zero by countries.