Monnaies libres = free currencies?
Depuis près d’un an que j’ai quitté l’association du Transitioner, j’entends parler et j’utilise très fréquemment l’expression des “monnaies libres” pour parler de ces nouveaux indicateurs, d’une grande libération de la monnaie telle que nous la connaissons aujourd’hui, mais aussi d’un spectre de lecture plus large de la Richesse. Après un an de recherche, de navigation, de voyages dans l’univers de la richesse, des indicateurs de richesse et des moyens d’échange de ces richesses, j’aimerai revenir pour clarifier ce que nous mettons et mélangeons souvent dans “monnaies libres”. Les différentes formes de richesse J’ai appris avec The transitioner qu’il y avait différents types de richesse, celle qui peut s’échanger: les biens, les services, le temps, celle qui peut se mesurer: la qualité, la taille, la complexité, et enfin la richesse qui peut se reconnaître: l’amour, la beauté, la splendeur etc.. Les différentes formes de richesse 1) n’ont pas accès à la monnaie traditionnelle Conclusion
www.openmoney.org
The MetaCurrency Project
Open Money
Open Money.org = Project to develop a software and infrastructure to enable peer-based multiple local currencies. URL = "The open money project aims to create the global infrastructure, tools, governance mechanisms and platforms that will give communities the capacity to create their own currencies[1] with just a few clicks and thereby liberate their wealth potential. "Money is making a fundamental evolutionary step into community currencies. The open money project aims to create the global infrastructure, tools, governance mechanisms and platforms that will give communities this capacity. “Open money is a means of exchange freely available to all. How does open money work? You treasure what you measure, and you measure what you treasure. Throughout history, wealth acknowledgment evolved by becoming more abstract and less substantial. From Open Money has to be: "Peer-to-peer Granularity and Emergence Viral Democratic
More Thoughts on Social Currency, Part I
In Splitting the Social Currency Atom I explored how it was possible to make sense of the various uses of the term “social currency” by analogy to the different functions of money. “Social currency” means different things depending on whether we are talking about it as a “means of exchange” (jokes, information, rumours) or as “unit of account” (reputation points, badges, diplomas.) While this analogy is useful, it isn’t perfect. In a number of important ways, social currency does not function like money. In this post, I will focus in on the “means of exchange” view of social currency. Exploring how social currency behaves differently to money can help shed light on what it is, and isn’t. What kind of exchange? To recap on my last post on this subject, what we could describe as “means of exchange” social currency is what we share in social contexts in order to earn social capital. Compare this to telling a joke at a party. What kind of gift? What kind of gift is social currency?
Money: A New Beginning
This essay is the first in a two-part series. An irremediable structural flaw lies at the base of our civilization. I call it Separation, and it has generated all the converging crises -- economic, health, ecological, and political -- of our day. It manifests as separation from each other in the dissolution of community, separation from nature in the destruction of the environment, separation within our selves in the deterioration of health. Money as we know it today is intimately related to our identity as discrete and separate selves, as well as to the destruction that our separation has wrought. For indeed, we live in a world of fundamental abundance, a world where vast quantities of food, energy, and materials go to waste. Money utterly fails to connect gifts and needs. Amidst superabundance, even we in rich countries live in an omnipresent anxiety, craving "financial security" as we try to keep scarcity at bay. And so it happened. It made sense. Would you like to get rich?
HEC - Intelligence collective et monnaies alternatives - par Jean-François Noubel
Le stade Dubaï du capitalisme - de Mike Davis [Fiche de lecture] [Fiche de lecture] : Domitille de la Morinerie Mike Davis, sociologue urbain, se place dans cet ouvrage au cœur d’un débat : la ville de Dubaï est-elle un symbole parfait de réussite et de prospérité ou un exemple frappant du décadentisme à l’occidental ? >>Lire la suite La Casa del Encuentro [Scénario] [Scénario] : Céline Lévy La Casa del Encuentro est une association féministe créée en octobre 2003 à Buenos Aires, en Argentine. >>Lire la suite L’aventure Ardelaine - Une coopérative textile au service du développement local de l’Ardèche - par Béatrice Barras [Compte rendu] [Compte rendu] : Béatrice Barras Béatrice Barras raconte l'histoire et l'organisation de la société-coopérative Ardelaine, dont elle est l'une des fondatrices. >>Lire la suite Les quartiers durables : Etude des freins et des leviers de la diffusion de ce modèle d'aménagement [Cahier de recherche] [Cahier de recherche] : Clémence Chouvet >>Lire la suite [Essai]
TAOA | There Are Other Alternatives
Monnaie Libre | Le podcast qui décrypte les codes des systèmes monétaires
Design - PaySwarm
The PaySwarm protocol is a universal payment mechanism for the Web. It is designed to be incredibly secure yet easy to implement. The base protocol is built on top of OAuth 1.0a. Asset An asset describes a particular item that is provided as a part of a commercial transaction. License A license is a legal description of a licensee's rights to a particular Asset. Listing A Listing describes the combination of an Asset that is for sale under a specific License and a set of payment terms that must be fulfilled in order to access the Asset. Contract A contract is the result of a commercial transaction in PaySwarm and contains information such as the Listing, the Asset that was purchased, the parties involved in the transaction, the License outlining the rights to the Asset, and payment information associated with the transaction. Authority In order to spend money on a PaySwarm-enabled site, one must have an account on a PaySwarm Authority. Asset Provider Asset Acquirer Listing an Asset for Sale
