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Posts By: Shumi Szumacher

Venture Capital for the Alternative Innovations in the Money Space?

By Shumi Szumacher, March 28, 2014

Optimistic Necrocapitalism Lana Swartz stepped into the money field in 2011, at an event sponsored by parties involved with a “traditional alternative economic practice” debating the future of money and how to better organize it. While participants were organizations working with alternative currency, sharing economies and such, all speakers were start-ups or marketing gurus from [...]

Cryptocurrencies: Designing Alternatives

By Shumi Szumacher, March 27, 2014

The late afternoon session on Saturday was dedicated to the theme of “Designing Alternatives”. Matthew Slater, a software activist from the UK, introduced the prototype of an online platform implementing the crypto currency payment method. Slater has been building an open-source mutual credit system for five years now. As co-founder of Swiss NGO Community Forge [...]

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