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MoneyLab: Economies of Dissent

After Bitcoin forked, and remains in tatters, it is now blockchain technology that ignites visions of de-regulated and decentralized organization, all the while it is simultaneously being sanitized by commercial banks. Meanwhile the sharing and “service” economy lost its innocuous veneer and streaming services have failed and continue to fold the music industry. Despite the escalation of crowd-funding into crowd-equity and platform co-operatives, artists and designers struggle to financially support themselves. Meanwhile, the financial mediators of the previous centuries continue to drag themselves onward into global debt.

 

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Soros And CFR Exploit Refugee Crisis For New World Order

Soros And CFR Exploit Refugee Crisis For New World Order | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Alt-Market.com - supporting local economies, barter networks, farmers initiatives, and alternative currencies backed by tangible commodities.
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[EN] What’s next after Bitcoin - Futur en Seine - Paris 2015

Futur En Seine 205 : “Human and technology” conferences cycle Revolutionary technology behind the bitcoin transaction protocol, the blockchain is a decentral...

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10 alternative currencies, from Bitcoin to BerkShares to Tide | TED Blog

10 alternative currencies, from Bitcoin to BerkShares to Tide | TED Blog | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
“Is there a reason for governments to be in charge of money?” asks Paul Kemp-Robertson in today’s talk. A look at other types of currency.
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On the ScotPound and Alternative Digital Currencies

Duncan McCann of the New Economics Foundation joins me for another episode of Big Ideas, where he discusses the NEF and Common Weal's proposal ...
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How The Blockchain Can Aid The Effectiveness And Use Of Complementary Currencies - TechCrunch

How The Blockchain Can Aid The Effectiveness And Use Of Complementary Currencies - TechCrunch | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage..
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Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery

Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Necessity is the mother of invention. When Christos Papaioannou noticed his car needed new tires, the Greek computer engineer bought them with euros—but used an alternative currency, called TEM, to...
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Greek Finance Minister Was Creating a Parallel Payment System - CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News

Greek Finance Minister Was Creating a Parallel Payment System - CCN: Financial Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency News | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
According to former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, prior to making a deal with European creditors, he was authorized to find an alternative way to keep the country's financial health in good standing.
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Bernard Lietaer, One of the Architects of the Euro on Greece and the EU | Alternative

Bernard Lietaer, One of the Architects of the Euro on Greece and the EU | Alternative | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Today we still use an industrial age monetary construct while we have technologies to do things differently. Greece could create a precedent with a different way of addressing economic problems, says one of the architects of the euro, Bernard...
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Meet 3 New ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES | Economy

Meet 3 New ALTERNATIVE CURRENCIES  | Economy | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

As currencies around the world become more volatile and devalued, alternatives to paper (fiat) money are coming alive.

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In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism | ROAR Magazine

In each other we trust: coining alternatives to capitalism | ROAR Magazine | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Beyond God and state, it’s money that rules. Can we still imagine alternatives? And what role will recent innovations like Bitcoin play in the struggle?
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A detailed proposal for a complementary currency for Greece

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from Alan Harvey  Introduction Austerity has delivered obvious suffering to the Greek people and serious burdens to the Greek state, trials that do not need to be enumerated here. The mechanics of ...
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Alternative Currencies Are Bigger Than Bitcoin: How They’re Building Prosperity From London to Kenya

Alternative Currencies Are Bigger Than Bitcoin: How They’re Building Prosperity From London to Kenya | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
The Brixton Pound, Koru Kenya, and Mazacoin are all attempting to achieve a common goal: empowering people in a monetarily unequal world, from the bottom up.
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The five criteria of alternative grassroots economics

“A new economy is coming into play. No longer wielded as a weapon to legitimise austerity, this is an economy where the community and the environment, not the corporate shareholder, benefits.
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Do You Have Change for a Bowie? The Advent of Artisanal Cash

Do You Have Change for a Bowie? The Advent of Artisanal Cash | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Alternative local currencies, some depicting pop stars instead of politicians, may be the last hurrah for cash.
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The Social Coin: Awarded best Worldwide project by United Nations

The Social Coin: Awarded best Worldwide project by United Nations | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The Social Coin has been selected by the WSA Grand Jury as best and most innovative Digital Innovation with high impact on society 2015.

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Entrepreneurs Plan Identabit; Identity-Based Bitcoin Alternative - CryptoCoinsNews

Entrepreneurs Plan Identabit; Identity-Based Bitcoin Alternative - CryptoCoinsNews | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
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Entrepreneurs Plan Identabit; Identity-Based Bitcoin Alternative
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It represents a way to liberate decentralized currencies and will be an alternative to bitcoin, according to a recent press release.
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The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page

Twenty years ago I read a story that changed my life. I think about that story often; it helps me to stay calm in the face of crisis, to remain hopeful in times of depression, and to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism. At this gloomy moment, when Asia's woes seem to threaten the world economy as a whole, the lessons of that inspirational tale are more important than ever.

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Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery

Greeks Flock to Grassroots Alternative Currencies in Affront to Euro Debt Slavery | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Necessity is the mother of invention. When Christos Papaioannou noticed his car needed new tires, the Greek computer engineer bought them with...
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An alternative Greek currency

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The truth of the matter is, the very powerful Troika of creditors were not interested in coming to a sensible, honorable mutually beneficial agreement. -- Yanis Varoufakis The euro was flawed from ...
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Greece Contemplates Nuclear Options: May Print Euros, Launch Parallel Currency, Nationalize Banks | Zero Hedge

According to Telegraph's Ambrose Evans Pritchard who quotes what appears to be a direct quote to him from Yanis Varoufakis, Greece will, "If necessary... issue parallel liquidity and California-style IOU's, in an electronic form. We should have done it a week ago." Hardliners within the party - though not Mr Varoufakis - are demanding the head of governor Stournaras, a holdover appointee from the past conservative government.  They want a new team installed, one that is willing to draw on the central bank's secret reserves, and to take the provocative step in extremis of creating euros.
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How alternative currencies could catch on and cash in

How alternative currencies could catch on and cash in | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Alternatives to cash, like Bitcoin and Uber, may never replace the coins in our pockets or paper bills in our wallets, but they are creating significant social and economic impacts, and with some design adjustments, could have even greater impact.
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Local Currencies for Global Resilience - YouTube

In the recent year we have seen a boom in complementary currencies. What are they? What can they do? How can Citizen, Companies and/or Local municipalities u...
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Why Money Isn't Everything

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The world over, alternative currencies are helping societies solve key issues. In Japan, volunteers earn redeemable friendship tokens when they care for the elderly.
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The ECB Is Considering A Parallel Greek Currency | Zero Hedge

The ECB Is Considering A Parallel Greek Currency | Zero Hedge | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Today, to our dismay, we find that the ECB has not only considered a "parallel currency" alternative but for Greece this may be a reality before long. According to Reuters, the ECB "has analyzed a scenario in which Greece runs out of money and starts paying civil servants with IOUs, creating a virtual second currency within the euro bloc, people with knowledge of the exercise told Reuters."

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