Monnaies complémentaires & alternatives - Future of money. Les monnaies virtuelles à la conquête de l’économie réelle | ParisTech Review. La dématérialisation de la monnaie n’a pas attendu Mark Zuckerberg: nos salaires et notre épargne ne nous sont pas comptés en pièces d’or, ni même en billets de banque, ce ne sont que des lignes inscrites sur nos comptes bancaires. Il en va de même des transactions financières qui à New-York, Londres ou Francfort font et défont l’économie réelle. Mais ces montants petits et grands sont libellés dans des devises ayant cours légal. Monopoly 2.0 Or on voit aujourd’hui se développer des monnaies d’un nouveau genre, qui n’ont pas cours dans le monde réel – pas encore. Elles sont virtuelles, au double sens du terme: elles ne sont utilisées que sur Internet, et n’ont pas de contrepartie en métal. Elles n’ont pas de valeur réelle, mais une valeur d’usage, celle que veulent bien lui reconnaître les personnes qui les utilisent. Hier encore on aurait vu dans ces devises 2.0 une simple variante des billets de Monopoly.
Dans un premier temps, les seules récompenses sont des voyages.
Welcome to the Metacurrency Project | The MetaCurrency Project. OFX Direct Connect Bank Settings - GnuCash. Here are some settings for banks and credit cards. Follow this link for instructions on setting up OFXDirectConnect in GnuCash 2. General instructions Bank Name may not be significant. ORG may be case sensitive. Bank Code is probably not used for credit cards, but may be critical for bank accounts. Note: 2.4.0 doesn't seem to enable the "Online Actions" menu if the Bank Code is not defined. It is usually the same as the bank's ABA routing number. Userid and Username are usually the same. Table of bank specific parameters Notes on banks BofA, CA The information listed here was verified to work for BofA California.
BofA, NY As of 2009-04-06: A call was required to enable Quicken download - there was initial resistance to attempting to enable this for a credit card only account. American Express "ORG" must be AMEX (case sensitive). Capital One - credit card Customer service states that Capital One does not support Direct Connect services for credit card accounts (as of 6/15/09). Chase E*Trade then. The Future of Money. Money : Future Agenda – A Global Debate.
Posted on October 14, 2009 by Dave Birch Money has four basic functions, each of which can be implemented in a different way and so each of which are available for different types of change. To me it is reasonable to consider these four functions and look at the global challenges to each of them individually and from there ask about the future. Read more Popularity: 2% [?] Over the next decade, the technology timeline is one of the most predictable components of the Future Agenda for money. If we are to choose a path forward, let us make it a shared goal to make a substantial reduction in the amount of cash in circulation: Willem Buiter (Professor of European Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and former chief economist of the EBRD) is not the first economist to think about getting rid of cash. The first is the mobile phone. So, my central prediction for the decade is that the mobile phone will be used to transact non-fiat currencies.
Un grand pas vers le nouveau monde. Pour savoir où nous allons, il faut savoir qui nous sommes, d’où nous venons. On sait que la ligne du temps n’est pas linéaire, mais comprendre ce qui bloque nous permet de trouver les solutions pour nous surpasser et accéder au niveau suivant. Voici donc en anglais une présentation complexe mais incroyablement riche qui nous fait un bon bilan de la situation, de ce qui cloche et de là où nous sommes. Elle a été réalisée par Artbrock sous prezi. Réflexion, Action Une fois que l’on comprend ceci, il est temps d’agir. En faisant vœu de richesse, Je décide d’accueillir et embrasser toute la richesse qui nous est donnée, qu’elle soit matérielle ou immatérielle. J’accueille la richesse comme ce qui nous rapproche de ce qui est Beau, Bon et Vrai. J’accueille la richesse comme la vie donnant la vie, la vie faisant évoluer la vie, pour la grande alliance entre la matière et la lumière. Je m’engage à offrir aux autres ce dont ils ont besoin pour l’accomplissement de leur vie.
La porte est ouverte. Tales of Change. The Oil Drum: Campfire | Food-backed Local Money. Rethinking Food Security Most institutions, such as food aid NGOs or the US Department of Agriculture, express concern about food security in terms of the ability for low income people to purchase adequate food. This is a valid way to think of food security. If food prices are high relative to income, or if other compelling expenses such as housing, health care and transportation also require a large portion of income, then securing adequate food on an individual or family level will be problematic.
Programs that disperse food to the needy, redistribute income through tax policies, assist with the high costs of non-food expenses, guarantee a living wage, etc. all address distribution inequity and are laudable. But the question I want to ask is whether they are now sufficient? Two unspoken assumptions underpinning the framing food security narrowly as an “income problem” require rethinking. Food-Backed Local Currency Image 2. Image 3. Mendo Credits are backed by a tangible asset.
Image 4. Digital Money Forum: Innovation that matters for the majority. [Dave Birch] That there is an interplay between the technology and monetary policy is obvious. Look what is going on in Africa. People who aren't allowed to hold dollar bank account hold dollar-denominated mobile top-up vouchers instead. Ugandans without an effective electronic payment system are using M-PESA from Kenya to execute local transactions in Kenyan shillings. Congolese without access to any banking network use mobile money instead (and may never, ever, want or need a bank account as a result).
In India and elsewhere the banks have managed put a regulatory finger in the dyke but the pressure is building and money is already leaking away from conventional institutions and networks into newer, mobile-centric, customer-facing organisations. The dam will, at some point, burst. How will governments be able to "manage" the money supply when it is being zipped across borders by mobile phones, global handset hyper-hawala.
Technology can, and will, change this. I love e-payments. Kashklash:: exchanging the future » Blog Archive » Locality, aga. Www.cyclos-france.org. Community Currency Magazine. Dividende Universel et TCP/IP. D’aucuns, tel Jean François Noubel, promoteur du transitionner, voient la transformation en cours arriver à une pléiade de monnaies, interagissant entre elles via un protocole universel tel le HTTP ou le TCP/IP (c’est l’image utilisée). C’est à mon sens une erreur d’analyse et d’interprétation. D’abord comme je l’ai déjà expliqué ici, ce qui fait la nature d’une monnaie, c’est son universalité et sa densité. Parce qu’il est dense (présent partout), et parce qu’il est universel (accepté partout), un moyen d’échange est une monnaie, est LA monnaie.
C’est bien parce que la monnaie usuelle se fait rare qu’on voit apparaître des myriades de SEL, ou que le WIR suisse se développe tel le phénix lors des récessions, qui ne sont rien d’autre qu’un assèchement monétaire local. Leur apparition n’a pas empêché la crise, et ne fait qu’en atténuer les effets (ce qui est déjà bien), mais sans en éliminer les causes. Il s’agit d’une réaction symptomatique, et pas d’une action curative. Company - An exorbitant privilege? Implications of reserve curre. Sharp exchange rate volatility is a sign of stress in the world currency system and has reignited debate about whether the dollar will continue to be the world's primary reserve currency and what system could emerge in its place.
But nobody has asked a more fundamental question—what are the benefits and costs of issuing a global reserve currency? Answering this question may shed new light on how the global currency system might evolve and whether businesses and economies should expect a continuation of an "unmanaged" reserve currency system that increases exchange rate volatility and threatens their competitiveness Some observers assume that the United States continues to enjoy an "exorbitant privilege" because of the dollar’s reserve currency status, as former French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing charged in the 1960s. But MGI finds that the United States may not enjoy much of a privilege at all. The research finds that reserve currency status has two benefits. Oikonomics: a social life of money: Brixton Pound - does local m.
On the basis of the two reports (One from the Guardian and One from the Times) the jury is out on the social benefits of Transition Towns new local Brixton pound. Most local shopkeepers the Guardian reporter spoke to (by the looks of things from the market stallholders) the new currency was at best a distraction and worst a waste of public time ‘keeping money in the community’. Having met many of the original thinkers and creators of LETS schemes at various conferences here and in the USA, I must admit that I am skeptical about the story of ‘local money for local people’ which has become the normal justification for the value of such creations.
As many of the local stallholders pointed out, there is nothing about them being small that means their own supply chain is somehow ‘local’. My ‘local’ florist for example, empties a lorry from the Netherlands every morning. Oikonomics: a social life of money. It is a recurring debate within most financial services companies to ask "does this constitute advice? '. Advice in financial services is highly regulated as a result of Financial Services somewhat chequered history on the matter. You don't have to go very far back in history to find repeated examples of sharp sales practices masquerading as advice. My main 'stuck record' when talking to FS companies is to try to convince them that such practices reflect their own skewed view of the world and have very little to do with the meaning and value of advice in society at large. This is more than just a philosophical debate, although policy wonks and practioneers need (and I think this would be a good thing) to be more philosophical about the nature of advice (and information) if we are not going to see the dysfunctionality of advice in the financial services industry repeated in other sectors of public good - such as health, social care and sustainability.
So lets look at the 'facts'. Addendum: Open Money (openmoney) Alan rosenblith. IRS May Push for Tax Compliance in Virtual Worlds. By Sharon McLooneThe Washington PostThursday, January 8, 2009 The IRS soon may keep a closer watch on the thousands, if not millions, of small firms and the self-employed that have sprouted up in virtual worlds. The nation's taxpayer advocate, who recommends to the IRS how to improve the average consumer's tax-paying process, released her annual report Wednesday describing some of the most serious problems encountered by taxpayers as well as some issues that the IRS should proactively address.
Taxpayer advocate Nina Olson listed the usual perennial suspects -- telling the IRS it should simplify the tax code and improve its working with taxpayers experiencing financial difficulties, among many other things. But she also told the agency that it should "proactively address emerging issues such as those arising from virtual worlds. " [1007.0515] Liquidity in Credit Networks: A Little Trust Goes a. Facebook-MOL Partnership Brings Virtual Credits to Real Stores | Facebook is partnering with MOL Global to deliver a new way to buy Facebook credits--in person at a MOL-connected store. It's a strange real world/virtual world crossover, and definitely a sign of the way future digital finances will work. MOL is a hot-topic Internet financial company, though if you haven't heard about it it's not surprising--while it operates in 75 countries, mainly its operations are centered in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
According to its press data, the company handles "over 60 million transactions" annually, leveraging "a network of more than 540,000 physical payment collection points" that connect to 88 banks in nine different countries. It's also a name you may have heard of in relation to Friendster, since it acquired the social network back in December 2009.
MOL's transaction count is very likely to skyrocket from that 60 million figure now, though.