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If 2015 was the year of the blockchain, perhaps 2016 will be the year of alternatives to Bitcoin.
Since midway point 2015, the Bitcoin community has argued to no end about the future of the Bitcoin protocol. 
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SolarCoin is a digital currency rewarding solar energy producers. Launched in January 2014 and inspired from BitCoin and BlockChain Tech whereby transactions are recorded and validated by a peer to peer network of computers, SolarCoin presents the additional advantage of being a tangible virtual currency: in fact, by coupling each MWh of solar electricity produced by a photovoltaic system to the production of a SolarCoin, the virtual world joins our physical world. Put another way, one can also understand that SolarCoin works as Solar-Miles: any solar owner receives SolarCoins for electricity that his photovoltaic installation generates… and it’s free!
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Economic and social benefits through a new inclusive type of money
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A startup local currency has just launched the Ithaca dollar in Ithaca, NY, designed to not only promote investment in local businesses and bring the community together
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Across the world alternative currencies are gaining momentum as they continue to challenge the traditional money system. Based on a peer-to-peer technology
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Rupt is a centralised digital currency and a payment network backed but not powered by mobile airtime. To store and transfer value between people or applications, the network has it’s own native currency named Rupt or XR.
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The tiny South American nation of Ecuador has begun its experiment with virtual currencies.
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Bitcoin's Core Developers Left Bitcoin Project to Start a New Digital Currency called DECRED.
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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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D-CENT (Decentralized Citizens ENgagement Technologies) is a Europe-wide project to create digital tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment. The...
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For all bitcoin’s growing pains, it represents the future of money and global finance.
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A key question surrounding digital currencies like Bitcoin is: to what extent should they be considered as money? This video answers that question by considering the roles we expect money to serve, and how much digital currencies are currently used in those ways.
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