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The term “Collaborative Finance” was coined in 2010 and picked up in 2023 by Informal Systems to describe “DeFi protocols that emphasize the inherent graph structure of payment & credit systems” and was picked up as the title of the first Collaborative Finance Gathering (Austria, 2023). The second CoFi gathering will take place in Banja ...
Discussion How is Breadchain Building Digital Dual Power? Marisa Rando: "At Breadchain, we are growing the cooperative and solidarity economy on the blockchain to utilize the potential of resilient decentralized protocols. We're building a community of projects ...
Description "The Optimism Collective is a band of companies, communities, and citizens working together to reward public goods and build a sustainable future for Ethereum. Together we will dispel the myth that public goods cannot be profitable. Public goods ...
Description User Owned theory describes GNUrho as an insuring deposit currency backed by any Physical Sources held under the General Public Law. Each GNUrho should represent the societal need as assessed by Object users according to the full price paid - where paying up to cost indicates worth, and paying any amount over cost as a desire to grow.
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1. John Robb: "A growing number of communities now use scrip (aka a community currency or loyalty program) as a way to keep business activity local and thereby increase community resilience to economic shocks. Here's how it works. Customers buy scrip that can only be used with local businesses to buy goods and services. This is usually done in resp...
The Environmental Argument
Bernard Lietaer: "The most recent reason for interest in stamp scrip and similar alternative monetary systems in the West or in Japan [Otani 1981; Henderson, 1981; Kennedy, 1988 ; Suhr,1989] results from environmental concerns. "The higher the money-rate of interest, the higher is the pressure on entrepreneurs to avoid internal costs, that is, to externalize into the environment as much as the cost as is possible. Thus under neutral money, when interest goes to zero, this additional burden on...
How to Accelerate Scrip
John Robb: "However, despite the spotty record so far, scrip is an extremely powerful means of accelerating local economic activity when nothing else seems possible (in economic extremis). Past experience with depression era scrip Abschein_vornelike Austria's Worglindicate that the following will accelerate scrip adoption, velocity, and robustness: 1. Allow community members to use it to pay all or part of their tax liabilities to local governments. This instantly establishes a market for the...
For more background read the economist Irving Fisher on depression era scrip at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~roehrigw/fisher/
support one another and contribute to the development of a parallel economy through practices of inter-cooperation.[51] In this way, coops would reduce their dependence on, and seek to gain autonomy from, conventional capitalist enterprises; this is the ...
URL = http://www.depressionscrip.com/ Description "Depression scrip was used during the depression era (1930's) as a substitute for government issued currency ...
