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Alternative Currencies

Fair Coop

December 15, 2020October 17, 2014 by Cat Johnson

Imagine an online cooperative that supports economic equality around the world and is free from state control. This is the vision for Fair.coop.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags Alternative Currencies, cooperatives, new economy, the commons Leave a comment

Faircoin as the First Global Commons Currency?

December 15, 2020October 1, 2014 by David Bollier

A key element of the Fair-Coop vision is a cryptocurrency, Faircoin, which has been designed to adapt the block-chain technology of Bitcoin with a more socially constructive design.

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California Passes Bill to Legalize Complementary Currencies

December 15, 2020July 22, 2014 by Chris Tittle

A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement.

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Visions of a techno-leviathan: The politics of the Bitcoin blockchain

December 15, 2020June 6, 2014 by Brett Scott

Bitcoin sometimes appears akin to an illegal immigrant, trying to decide whether to seek out a rebellious existence in the black-market economy, or whether to don the slick clothes of the Silicon Valley establishment.

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Back-up currencies: the solution to our euro woes?

December 15, 2020May 21, 2014 by Leander Bindewald

One currency seems not to be able to serve every human need alone.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags Alternative Currencies, building resilient economies, complementary currencies, local currencies Leave a comment

Reconomy: Where Cash takes a Back Seat

December 15, 2020May 20, 2014 by Russell Evans

We used to live in a world where money was the thing that enabled things to happen. But with dollars becoming more and more scarce, success will only come if we develop a myriad of alternative economies to empower our work.

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Ethical Money and The Great Separation

December 15, 2020May 20, 2014 by Graham Barnes

In a self-serving attempt to be recognised as a science, orthodox economics treats human input to its economic models as soulless homogeneous stereotyped behaviours and values.

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Can Complementary Currencies Level the Gender Gap in Slums?

December 15, 2020April 8, 2014 by Morgan Richards

Resilience and ingenuity are trademarks of impoverished communities here in Kenya. When we first introduced Bangla-Pesa it had a few ups and downs, but now it is being used in ways we had never imagined.

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In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism

December 15, 2020April 1, 2014 by Jerome Roos

Beyond God and state, it’s money that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives?

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An ethical Altcoin?

December 15, 2020February 25, 2014 by Graham Barnes

For the first time* an altcoin, Auroracoin, has designed-in a predistribution (via premining) of currency. This article sets out a draft vision of how an altcoin that is designed to give priority to positive aspects of living neglected by the financialised economy might operate.

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The Story of the Bristol Pound

December 15, 2020February 21, 2014 by Chris Sunderland

What would it be like if we did a local currency at scale, across a whole city? What would it be like if we had an 
electronic means of exchange as well as a paper currency?

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Solar Coin – a crypto currency designed to stimulate solar energy production

December 15, 2020February 12, 2014 by Sepp Hasslberger

Solar Coin is a crypto currency specifically intended to stimulate solar energy production.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags Alternative Currencies, crypto currencies, Renewable Energy, solar energy production 1 Comment
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