Fair Coop
Imagine an online cooperative that supports economic equality around the world and is free from state control. This is the vision for Fair.coop.
Imagine an online cooperative that supports economic equality around the world and is free from state control. This is the vision for Fair.coop.
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.
A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement.
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.
One currency seems not to be able to serve every human need alone.
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.
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.
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.
Beyond God and state, it’s money that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives?
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.
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?
Solar Coin is a crypto currency specifically intended to stimulate solar energy production.