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Posts By: armina

Fresh projects in the Alternatives Bazaar

By armina, March 23, 2014

The Alternatives Bazaar on stage made its debut with Geheimagentur, a project from Germany that started out as a protest against the conventional banking system and as an art installation (“the bank of burning money”). Later on, the project developed into a solution for impoverished communities in Germany. The switch was from burning money to [...]

Eduard de Jong: Towards an open e-currency system

By armina, March 23, 2014

Eduard de Jong started the session on Saturday with a brief history of digital currencies. First of all, he explained, it is important to understand what we mean when we say “electronic currency”: electrons that represent monetary value. The value is transferable and the electrons are on a wire, in silicon, in a magnet. De [...]

Bill Maurer: an anthropologist’s take on monetization

By armina, March 23, 2014

Bill Maurer began his session with a statement about the alternative currencies today: “It’s a wild west out there”. Of course, a lot of the emerging payment systems fail along the way. Looking a bit at the origin of alternative currencies, we see the 19th century’s references to the railroad systems. Terms such as “freight” [...]

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